Dr. Maxwell Maltz said “Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively. You either have no goal that is important enough to you, or you are not using your talents and efforts in striving toward an important goal.” Therefore, I would say live fully by being creative, and use your imagination. Have a passionate goal and you will effortless use your talents to accomplish that important passionate goal.
We are all born on a specific date and time and we will die or leave our bodies on a specific date and time–guaranteed! However, how do we play this game of life between birth and death successfully, peacefully, and happily?
We need a strategy! Let’s start by identifying some specific points:
- Passion - What kind of vocation makes you happy, and gives you peace and inner satisfaction? What job or project are you enthusiastic about? Something you have intense desire to accomplish it so badly that you don’t see it as work, but just a labor of love.
- Objective - What is your end goal? What would be the specific result and achievement of your labor of love by the end of year 1, 2, 3, or 5? (even by the end of this month)
- Game plan - To achieve your objective, what would you do on daily basis to contribute to achieving your specific goal. What is your step-by-step process that needs to be followed and accomplished to reach your goal.
“A goal is not the same as a desire, and this is an important distinction to make. You can have a desire you don’t intend to act on. But you can’t have a goal you don’t intend to act on.” - Tom Morris
“Dreaming is wonderful, goal setting is crucial, but action is supreme. To make something great happen you must get busy and make it happen. Take that action step today that will put you on your path to achievement.” - Greg Werner
It’s always a great idea to use the SMART tool in your decisions to accomplish your passionate objectives: Thus, if you need to break down your BIG IDEA into several goals, each goal must be SPECIFIC, MEASURABLE, ACTIONABLE, REALISTIC, and TIME-BOUND.
Also, don’t forget to do your homework to have the right information to work with. If you are not sure about something or a concept that may enhance your project, be humble and ask for help from an expert or a growth strategist like myself. Remember, you make/create your own LUCK (Labor Under the Correct Knowledge)!
“All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on the goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.” - Orison Swett Marden
If you fail, try again and again until you succeed! However, you must learn something from each failure. Life is a school and what you learn from each failure would be the benefit of your graduation lesson/certificate for life. The pain of failing would be your tuition. Therefore if you don’t learn a lesson from failure and graduate, you would just waste an opportunity - a highly paid tuition.
“You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.” “Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.” - Les Brown
“If you have had a wonderful family relationships, you’ll be able to call yourself a true success in life no matter what else you’ve achieved.” - Vic Conant
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