Time to Think: What Do You Want?

By Dr. D. Paul Reilly
Anyone who’s involved in counseling of any kind, will be aware of the fact, that there are unfortunately a whole lot of unhappy people spread throughout this great big world of ours. Now, from my own personal experience, I honestly believe, that one of the main underlying reasons why so many people are in fact very unhappy with themselves, is simply because they have no direction. That’s right, countless thousands of people are just going along from day to day, hoping in a very vague way, that something good will happen to them.

My Friend, believe you me, that’s not the way life works. If any person wishes to build a meaningful life, a life which is deeply satisfying to the soul, the very first thing which one simply MUST do, is to clearly and indeed specifically establish exactly what one wants out of life. Yes my Friend, far too many people don’t actually know what they want, they literally don’t know where they’re going, thus they can’t really expect to arrive at a worthwhile destination.

As I have relayed to you my valued readers on more than one occasion in the past, one of the best definitions of ‘Success’ that I ever heard comes from my mentor Earl Nightingale, and it goes like this. ‘Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal’. So what this means in effect, is that in order to be successful, you simply must have a series of specific goals for all areas of your life, which you’re progressively working towards.

If you don’t have any goals, like unfortunately an estimated 95% of the people in the world, there’s absolutely no possible way in which you can become successful. And My Friend, it is because so many people do not have goals, do not know exactly what they want, that they are wandering aimlessly from day to day, in a most unhappy state of mind.

So My Friend, how do you personally answer the most important question posed by the title of this article ‘What do you want?’. This question must be deeply pondered and then specifically answered, before a person can commence their journey toward ultimate perfection on the road to success. So today, I want you to sit down quietly by yourself to determine exactly what you want out of life. You simply MUST establish a series of Specific Goals and Objectives for all areas of your life. When you know what you want, once you have established your goals, then you need to draw up a detailed plan for their achievement.

Finally, you must become a person of ACTION, so that you daily get the things done, which will assist you in the achievement of your predetermined goals and objectives. Yes My Friend, once you know what you want and where you want to go; believe you me, you’ll be full of the Supreme Joy of Life, day in and day out.

THINK ABOUT IT!

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