Set a target
Last Sunday I read a great post by Declan Wilson. I liked it and I’d love to share with you what he stirred up in my mind
Don’t cruise through life making pit stops at the Next Big Thing. Take control of the wheel and create your own…medium.com
He wrote:
Don’t cruise through life making pit stops at the Next Big Thing. Take control of the wheel and create your own adventure.
Create your own adventure. Create you own dreams. Create your own life. Create your own business, and so on… I could go on and on with these kind of examples.
It’s kinda something we hear whispering in our ears day to day. Now, we can decide to listen to them or not. It’s our choice.
Sometimes we are just deaf. Other times we are just afraid to start a new thing. And you know that nothing happens as long as you get the guts to put it up there. But if you do, you need a stationary object. How come?
Let me explain that through a short story by Max Lucado. It has recently help me to get out of the impasse:
The father sent the boy to prepare a field, reminding him to till straight lines. “Select an object on the far side of the field, and plow straight at it.”
Later when the father checked on the boy’s progress, there wasn’t a straight furrow to be found. Every row was uneven and wavy.
“I thought I told you to select an object and plow toward it,” the dad said.
“I did,” the boy answered, “but the rabbit kept hopping.”
Did you read carefully? I did.
It’s just like my dad once said to me: “son, if you don’t set a target, you will not ever get anything in your life”. He was right.
Unfortunately, I was just a kid, incapable to understand the weight of his words. My mind wandered from point to point and I was just chasing my own weird desires. I mean, like any boy my age, I daydreamed. I wanted to become a fighter pilot. Maybe, I thought I was thinking straight. I was wrong, just a little bit.
In fact, when I was 17, I had already changed my mind. I wanted to become a famous architect. I already saw my name on the front page of the major papers and magazines. You understand, don’t you? Okay, I was a teenager with a big dream in my mind.
But when the rabbit stopped hopping, my life has come to a turning point, and I began to realize I had to make choises. Today, I’m a police officer. I’ve been a glad police officer for twenty-two years. I stopped virtually jumping up from job to job. But let me say that this can be applied to other things in your life.
Metaphorically speaking, as the boy in the story, I could no longer keep staring at the rabbit keep hopping.
I just needed to select a stationary object in my life and keep plowing straight at it.
You probably are wondering what the stationary object is.
Become who you are meant to be! Choosing to live intentionally!
For a long time I’ve been living as an ostrich, hiding my head in the sand. But when I realized I was living nonsense, I needed a road map to get back on track.
The gratitude is my road map!
Every day I’m thankful for having an opportunity with others to be part of this journey to happiness. Okay, not each day is simple to live. There have been, there are and certainly there will be tough days, but I know I can face everything, because I am not alone.
