Goals

"Before you begin a thing remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin."
Kathleen Norris


Are you one of those people who, when faced with a decision to act on something, try to imagine all the possible difficulties and delays that could happen with either option and how to deal with them, and get so overwhelmed that they can't get started. This is a very ineffective way of trying to get things done. The truth is that you can't foresee what difficulties and delays are going to happen; if you knew what to expect in the future, life would be very easy but also extremely dull and boring. By focusing on bad things that might happen, you are actually attracting all the things you don't want to happen too.

It is much better to focus on the one thing that you do have control over; clarifying your goal and forming a mental vision of it. Although you don't know what the future will bring, you do know what you want to happen in the end. When you know what you want to happen, you will be better able to find solutions to problems that come up and you will be more aware of the resources for acheiving your goal that were in your environment all along. Never lose sight of your goal. When your eyes are on the sunlight, you don't notice the shadows.

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