Most of the time what we have and work hard at manifesting are desires, not exactly goals. And these desires are almost as endless as wants because they are not specific. We desire almost every good thing that we see, so much that, at some point, we can become confused.
Focus precedes vision and when we lack specific vision, what we have is distraction. Almost anything would attract our attention because we do not have a specific vision that we are focused on. This is indeed, a very terrible place to be. A person of vision is a person who has direction. Even when things are not working out as they are expected, that visionary knows how to wait and watch out for prompts and seeks support on how to go or what to do.
When we have no specific vision, it's because we have not arrested the question of purpose. If we know our purpose, we would not just look in every direction. We would look only in one or two directions and we will be satisfied and consistently do one or two things at a time that will only lead to one end.
A visionary business owner has to have specific vision on how to balance the home and the business. As you go on through the rigours of living to satisfy both crucial ends, you get to the point where you must begin to infuse specific ideals in the children by teaching them practical values and making them partners in the building of the home. This secures their future today. The same applies to your business. You must enlist the concept of coaching and developing the people in your space through mentorship. It is the building of sustainable legacies.
When we have desires, whether they are burning or pulsating desires or not, the first thing to do is to make goals from those desires. That is when we narrow our vision and direct our energies and resources towards a specific thing or direction. We can have one audacious goal that we break into short, medium or long term. It is aimed at a specific vision. We envision a specific goal which we expect to come to fruition in maybe 5, 10, or 15 years. The attainment of this would add to our life purpose.
Our life purpose may be to become a person who helped others attain transformation through divine thinking and focus on life beyond this physical realm. But in doing this, we must live visionary lives through secular work to change paradigms, make shifts happen and become exemplary such that through our life work, men can see and connect to a higher purpose.
Our vision in secular life and accomplishments per time can change after we have attained previous visions. They are like goals. We can envision a specific goal or two for a specific time. That is what it means for goals to be time-bound. We can have a vision to be the ace at dispensing insightful and resourceful thinking through learning and developing human-mind. This may either change or get tweaked as we go on in life, after we have achieved it.
Our processes per time may change; but our purpose does not change. Our purpose for being in this space is the will of the Maker for us here. It's beyond us. When we connect with the Infinite Mind in this regard, we are in alignment with and indeed we are tuned to a divine program.
Now, talking about goals, let us try to build some simplified thoughts around the concept of goals in order to provide some information for those who may be informed by it.
When we set goals, whether they are short, medium or long-term goals, we must keep reminding ourselves of the goals daily through deliberate engagement in specific activities. These activities are reminders that keep us in synchrony with our goals. Those activities relate so much to our goals that when we engage in them, we already see the goals manifesting. That is what it means to live beyond intention. It means to live deliberately.
For example, if my goal is to become the best in my class at the end of this academic session, I do need specific information to achieve this goal. This is what comes to my mind first. Part of the information will be what courses do I have to take? What resources do I need? What scores do I need each term or semester? Who do I need to beat or keep in my view? Who has to be my friend or study partner? Do I need to attend all my classes? What study hours do I need to put in daily?
These are some of the questions that must surround the daily and weekly activities that I must actively engage in. In the short term, I must religiously pay attention to these activities. At the end of each week, I want to evaluate my activities and check off some things from my list. At the end of the second and third weeks, I want to check my test scores and see how they measure with the requirements of the overall test scores. I must measure the consistency level required of me. This is short term.
For the mid-term, I want to run evaluations based on my tests, assignments, term papers and projects. I want to see how these will affect the long term. The end of the medium assessment is the end of a term or semester. This measurement lets me know how well I am doing by this time and how it would affect the long term, which is end of session.
This strict regime gives you a strict approach. A strict approach means discipline. Unless you are able to maintain discipline, you will only live wishfully, not deliberately. A strict regime gives you limited options always: keeps you in a specific and small circle, sees you maintain specific habits, narrows your focus and guides you only towards visionary activities.
You don't roll with everyone. You choose people who are of like minds with you. You don't just choose these people. Your aura, your vibration, your body language and lifestyle attracts them; and they are usually a small circle. You have strict routines that you practice daily, weekly and monthly. If there would be any changes or shifts, it would be a tighter one because you have a certain window with which to attain certain goals.
This routine lifestyle gives you a lean and focused lifestyle. You are more selfish than selfless and more rigid than flexible. You eat, you exercise, you sleep, you awake, you read and do everything based on specific plan. The execution of the plan gives you a winning strategy that you can replicate at the end of the session, if you achieve your goal.
Talking about the people you mix with. You choose your circle. Only the people who are germane to your plan can have access to you and it's for a specific time, reason and engagement. You also are not seen everywhere. You are seen only where the activities and people align with your goals. Outside that there is no reason to mingle in such quarters.
The information that you seek is a structured and specific information. Specific information is not found everywhere. You seek only information that concern your goal; a course of study; a test, a project, a term paper. It's a purpose and goal-driven lifestyle. It's the uncommon path. And you must accept that separation is your key to the attainment. You have to disengage from some persons and engage with some other persons.
With this mindset or disposition, anything that is not in alignment or in support of your goals is either a potential or an actual enemy. This is the hard truth. You spend all your resources only on the activities that support your goals. You operate a lean budget. There is no free lunch and there is no involvement in whatsoever activity that you cannot defend or that is not in tandem with your goals. You do not make friends outside your goals.
According to Joseph Samuel Girardi, better known as Joe Girard, November 1, 1928-February 28, 2019, to achieve the audacious feat he achieved, he never made friends outside his area of business. He ate only with vehicle mechanics, vehicle sales agents and rolled only with persons who had something to do often strictly directly with vehicle business. Little wonder he sold 13,001 cars at a Chevrolet dealership between 1963 and 1978 and was recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the seller of the most cars in a year (1,425 in 1973): [Wikipedia]
The values that go with your goals are clearly defined and owned. You live the values daily. It is the values that actually does the separation from some things and attaching to some things. It is the outcome of principled and ideological living.
You manifest values like punctuality, humility, respect, listening, being taciturn, strict regime, routineer, asceticism and service. Each of these is discipline and they are living standards that define and become you because you practise them, you embody them and eventually become an ideology yourself.
One thing about you and your goals is that they are personal to you. You own them and you are possessed of them. You drink them. You eat them. You sleep them. You wake them. You manifest them. You become them. And that's because you believe in them from your heart.
How much do you believe in your goals? Your belief is your life. Your belief rules you. Your belief works with your sixth sense. This, being your super-sense, makes you live an extraordinary life. You invest every resource at your disposal into your goals because they are tied to your purpose.
