What are your real goals — and have you ever actually written them down? Most people spend more energy watching what others are doing wrong than building their own dreams. But the moment you shift your focus to your own vision, everything changes.
Why We Get Distracted by Others
Why waste time looking at what other people are doing or not doing? Getting caught up in the wrongness of what they’re doing? In any business or personal setting, we start noticing people who seem lazy, not forthright, or withholding. We start to understand the politics of life.
It becomes more important what we look like on paper than who we are or the character we have. And that’s a terrible thing for anybody to believe — that’s a life worth living where it’s more important what we look like on paper than the character that we are. But we live in a world that does measure us on paper. And as we grow into good character, we recognize the importance of keeping our lives in order: your credit, your license, your commitments. These are privileges we must maintain, or we lose them.
Painting Your Dreams
As we get into life and business and become good character, we have to paint our dreams. We have to know what our dreams and goals are — not focusing on what’s wrong, not on what other people are doing wrong, not on how they’re not living. Because that’s a waste of energy.
Why waste my energy on what other people are doing wrong, when that same energy could be used towards my own goals? If my goals are not important enough to write and see in print, then they’re not truly important to me. Who am I if I can’t grab a piece of paper and a pencil and write down what I want?
How to Make Goals Real
Ask yourself: Are my goals realistic? Are they timely? Can I measure them? Are they worthwhile — do they mean something to me? Not just anything, but something that stirs real passion. Goals have to have that quality of God-understanding. What is realistic? What is truly worthwhile?
Not just something mandated by circumstance — “I do this because it’s what I’ve always done” — but what is your dream? Write it down. See what it looks like on paper. Then create a timeline:
- Short-term: What can I do now? What results in 30 days?
- Mid-term: Where am I in 60–90 days?
- Long-term: Where do I want to be in 6 months? A year?
You Have What It Takes
If you understand a way of life — if you’ve done the discipline of learning to live with spiritual principles — that discipline indicates to you that you can learn anything, and do anything. You can put your goal down and make it happen.
Don’t hold back. Give everything you’ve got to understanding it. You can create exactly the life you want.
- Stop wasting energy on what others are doing — put that energy toward your own vision
- Goals that aren’t written down are just wishes
- Create short-term, mid-term, and long-term milestones with measurable outcomes
- Your spiritual discipline proves you can learn anything — use that same discipline to pursue your dreams
- Character matters more than appearances, but both require intentional effort
Have fun,
Much love,
KC
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