Just one goal, not two or three or more.
The hardest thing about this, is just fine-lining things down to one single thing.
You might want to tie that one goal to your sense of purpose.
There is a simple life purpose quiz, here:
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I got the result of 'happiness' for my purpose. That is I'm interested in psychology, in information, research, psychoanalysis and writing, prose, poetry and music. But it's for a reason. So hopefully if you read my blog, I can impart some of that to you and perchance it will take off.
Now Rome wasn't built in a day. So its time for some project management.
Remember our journey begins with just one small step.
Roughly work out how long your goal/project will take. How many hours a day you can devote to it. Work out some ballmarks such as I could write chapter one of my novel in a fortnight. Chapter two in the second half of the month, and so on. When you reach your ballmarks its time to celebrate, hurrah!
Break it down to bite size chunks. See how long it would take to eat an elephant, one bite at a time!
Set aside time to work on your goal. Like I will go to the library to study for 3 hours on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Or I will study Japanese every night on the train ride home. Stephen King says a rough draft should take no more than three months. So what's it still doing sitting in you laptop for years then, hey?
You could arrange a meetup group if you would like to work in a team, and build rapport with other people with the same goal. Visit meetup.com for groups in your area. And you can join discussion groups online.
To inspire yourself you can create a goal board collage. Visualising where you are headed. Or read the autobiographies or bio's of people in the same field. Maybe you can find someone you admire to be your mentor.
My mentor is Lillian Too. I don't know her personally but she has once replied to a letter I wrote her and I got a ton of inspiration from WOFS, Too's feng shui website. It may be time to change the decor from feng shui inspired to something more keeping with the times; but Lillians spiritual lessons will abide. And hey, we all need a bit of good luck!
But first you have to do something you enjoy. And what is the Tao part?
The Tao not only means your occupation (being hopefully, your calling). But Taoism would ask you to make an effort. Where effort will eventually lead to effortlessness. Even if is little by little, but constant like a stream over a rock.
You can mull over idea after idea. But as Anne Frank said: laziness may seem attractive, but hard work satisfies. However you can never know everything.
Encompassing the great Tao also calls for not knowing. I do not know how this project will turn out. I do not know, I will never know the secret of success. I do not know exactly how to act on a date. We get so stressed out, often about nothing! Get comfortable with emptiness so that your productivity is more focused. When you are unsure, you should just breathe, and gently refocus.
More on that visualisation board - manifesting. The Secret: Yay! Coincidences happen. You will get opportunities. Someone will give you a break. You can syncronise yourself to the possibilities. Align yourself to the universe. Influence fate. With affirmations, visualisation, good ideas and positive thinking.
It's not enough to be open to opportunity, you've got to take them, you've got to act.
You map the path but the terrain is where the challenges rise. Being overwhelmed is one of the worst things that can happen. In which case, less is more. You can also delegate some things. And hey, buy a dishwasher.
Your job now is just to make one goal. Write it down, male a vision board, decide how much time you have to devote to it, and guess what - get to work.
C. B. Mosher, said, “Writing is torture. Not writing is torture. The only thing that feels good is having written.
Ernest Hemmingway. He said, “There is nothing to writing, all you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed"
All you really have to do is show up. At your typewriter, easel, office or your kitchen sink.
Finally, a word from the bhagavad gita: They attain perfection, those who take joy in their work'.
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