The 365 Commitment

Day 116 – What do you really want?

I wonder if you even know the answer to this question? I am going to assume that most people are like me and they have not really sat down and put the effort into really articulating what they want. I have challenged myself several times during this last 116 days. I am getting closer to articulating my goals, but it is not simple.

Now before you go and just dismiss me on this one and say to yourself quite simply – “my goal is to have eternal life with Jesus” or “my goal is to obtain nirvana” or “my goal is to receive a Nobel Prize.” Please realize that all of those and many like them are not goals that you can obtain. They are unobtainable – which makes them great goals – but not something that you have control over. You see these are gifts.

Gifts are given to you after a lifetime of dedication, passion and pursuit. You are awarded an endowment, you do not achieve an endowment. You are given the award for lifetime achievement by a prestigious university not because you achieved some qualification – your achievements over the course of your life accumulate to such a body of work that other recognize it and choose to award you and give you a gift.

So as much as you would like to ignore the fact that I keep poking on the need to articulate what you want, and to write it down you cannot get away from it. That is if you want to amount to anything and even be eligible for great endowments and gifts one day! Articulating what you really want, is crucial to the 365 Commitment.

Up to this point I have been an aimless wanderer with some vague idea of my destination, but nothing concrete and therefore victim to the whims and desires of others. The greatest influence we have over our lives is the decisions we make everyday. Everyday you are going to make thousands of decisions, some seemingly small and insignificant. However, through the lens of concrete, well articulated desires those small decisions will no longer seem trivial.

Every decision you make, everyday, needs to have those articulated goals in mind. Even dealing with setbacks should have your goals in view. Every morning when you wake up, every evening when you go to bed, every prayer needs to have your ambitions as the target. If you are ambitions are good, and in harmony with God and the Universe then what you set your mind to will happen.

Setting your mind = following the 365 Commitment. The question is do you want it bad enough?

Guy Reams (116)
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