Focus On Your Mission!Written by Jonathan R Taylor
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move from one thing to another. The key to staying on track is first making sure you have a mission statement before you begin setting goals for yourself. If your foundation is unstable, it will be hard to finish project. Dr. Stephen Covey says, "In order to deal with change in this day and age, we must first know what is changeless about ourselves." Once we discover our true calling and write a mission statement that supports it, then it becomes harder for us to be shaken off course, despite distractions that surround us. Once our mission statement is in place, we can then focus like a laser beam on task ahead. If we go out on a bright, sunny day and hold a magnifying glass over a stack of newspapers, it will never start a fire - if we're moving glass around. But what happens when we hold glass in one place? The beam is concentrated on that one spot and eventually - voila!
Jonathan R. Taylor, specializes in helping people in every stage of their lives to find more meaning and purpose in their work. He believes that to find that purpose and meaning, a person's interests, skills, passions, and goals must integrate seamlessly with their work. To get more great advice, subscribe to Jonathan's newsletter at www.careercalling.com!
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inside a prison cell that measured four and a half feet high and 5 ft long. To keep from losing all hope, he realized that he needed to do something to occupy his mind. So, every day he played 18 holes of golf in his mind. He imagined everything in vivid detail from country club he was playing at to smell of freshly cut grass in summertime. He would imagine grip of clubs and practice his swing many times until he perfected it. In reality, he had no place to go, so he spent four hours a day on course in his mind never leaving any detail out. After seven years, he was released from prison and returned home. Upon returning to actual golf course, he found that he had shaved 20 strokes off his game! By visualizing a perfect game every day for seven years he literally brought his score down to a 74. When we set long term goals for ourselves, key to achievement is visualizing ourselves accomplishing them. Visualizing success is important for two reasons. First, mind thinks in terms of pictures. Second, subconscious mind drives much of our behavior. The subconscious does not know difference between something that is real and something that is vividly imagined, so whatever picture you consistently think about will drive you to create that exact reality. “A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him image of a cathedral.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Jonathan R. Taylor, specializes in helping people in every stage of their lives to find more meaning and purpose in their work. He believes that to find that purpose and meaning, a person's interests, skills, passions, and goals must integrate seamlessly with their work. To get more great advice, subscribe to Jonathan's newsletter at www.careercalling.com!
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