Being clear about what you want

You have to be absolutely clear about what you want in life, and this is especially important when defining a vision for yourself in the future. It is not enough to know what you don’t want in life; most people you meet will know what they don’t want in life, it is
easy, sometimes we only have to look around to see what we don’t want. But to know
what you want and to know enough to provide explicit details takes some preparation and
thought.
“Know exactly what is to come in your future, the result of
being clear about where you are going will free your mind of
any doubts, fears and uncertainties”
The mind however will always take the path of least resistance; it will always be easier
for the mind to come up with a list of all the things you don’t want. It takes effort and
requires careful consideration to define a vision for your future, which is why for most
people the response to the question ‘What do you want in life?’ is an apathetic and lazy ‘I
don’t really know’.
While there are different motivational strategies such as move towards (I want a new car),
and move away from (I don’t want to work in an office), what you want to focus on here
when creating a vision is moving towards something. While move away from
motivational strategies are effective in removing the things you don’t want in your life,
they are not so good when attempting to generate new realities which don’t already exist.
With move away from strategies, you can if you are not careful find yourself continually
moving around from pillar to post, always searching for something but never actually
finding it, why? Because you have never taken the time to define what ‘it’ actually is you
are looking for. If you know you don’t want something, then by virtue of this fact you
must also know what you want. What is the opposite of what you don’t want, once you
know this, play around with it until you come up with something you do want. It is important to take the time to sit down and describe in detail what you want in life. If you find it hard to write an initial plan for your future, how hard will you find it taking the necessary steps required to implement it?

Watch out for my next post!!