Say you take a tour of luxury homes or a grand estate that is now a museum.

You look around and realize you have spent most of your life living in an oversized walk-in closet without knowing it.

Maybe you imagine actually living in such a place.

You imagine reading a book in a room big enough for 30 people and you are only one in it. And other rooms, let’s say 15-20, are empty except for furniture and belongings.

I hasten to add that headaches of maintaining such a residence is substantial, but so is mental adjustment to bigger stage.

Whatever your current stage, mentally visit a bigger and more challenging one.

Do that often enough and one day, your visit will be in real time.

In 6th year, he walks 37.5 miles each day for 100 days.

In 7th year, he walks 52.2 miles for 100 days and then 18 miles for another 100 days.

He carries only candles, a prayer book, and a sack of vegetarian food.

And, for a bit of extra incentive, he is bound to take his own life if does not finish grueling ritual.

Of all possible ways one could look at this achievement, consider it a goal-setting exercise of amazing proportions.

Imagine countless series of incrementally smaller and smaller goals necessary to achieve such a monumental task.

Fujinami had to set yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly objectives of distance and prayer time to finish mind-boggling run.

No matter how large task, you can accomplish it with a series of step-by-step goals and sustained determination.