Take a moment and think. If you could have anything, right now, what would it be? Anything. What is your strongest desire? What motivates you? To check if the Thing you just thought of, really is what you want most, imagine how you would feel after you got it. You want to be President of a small Caribbean nation? Boom, wake up and smell the salty sea air Presidenté. How do you feel? If you don’t feel at peace, you need to go a step deeper. What motivates what you thought of? If you wanted a million dollars but imagining that doesn’t give you peace, maybe what you want is security. Now think, after making sure that really is what you want, what did you do this week to take a step in the direction of that Thing. If you really do want a million dollars in the bank, what did you do to increase your balance or improve your cash flow? If the Thing you want most is a happy family, what did you do to make your family happy? Our time is one of the only level playing fields. No one can’t get any more time. Too often we spend our time on things that don’t satisfy us because they are not THE Thing. I can hear you saying, “But Josh, what is the Thing you want most? And what did you do to get it?”
For me, to know that I am living my life the right way, taking advantage of all the opportunities and challenges that come my way, is the most important Thing. I think about where I am spending my time often. I am religious and I believe that if I am doing what God wants me to do, that is the best way I can spend my time. If you don’t believe in a higher power, that’s ok. The things that God wants me to do are things that make us and everyone around us happy. Be nice to people. Serve them. Learn more. Organize. Create. Love everyone. Take time to think and ponder. So how am I doing reaching that goal? I am far from perfect. I don’t need to know the stages of the Russian monarchy and revolution but wikipedia just sucks you in. Reviewing my week, I am happy that I did take steps towards reaching my goal. I know that in order to really accomplish what I could in life, I require more skills. Coding skills, design skills, bow staff skills. 🙂 By doing something everyday to learn more of these skills, I am progressing towards my goal. If you are religious, I think that by honing our skills we become more useful in Gods Kingdom. If you are not religious, learning these skills takes me one step closer towards a Caribbean palace and new country on the world map. Booya. What is your Thing and what did you do this week to get it? Feel free to comment or send me an email. I really do want to know.
(Editors note – I am writing some of these posts on my phone, so if you see errrrors, alert me and I will fix them. Your future president or Russian monarch thanks you. 🙂
When I was a kid, what I wanted to the most was being able to play Chopin’s Polonaise Op. 53 No. 6. It’s the coolest piano composition in the entire world. I thought it was going to be impossible to play. I got the sheet music from my music teacher, and I started learning it note by note, measure by measure, right hand and left hand. I spent at least 1 hour each day practicing the song in a small electronic keyboard my parents saved from the dumpster in a church building. A year later, I did not only learned the entire 14 pages of this incredibly hard song…. I won a piano contest, which was one of the happiest days of my life. This taught me that I can do everything in this life.What do I want now? I want to be a security expert. This week I studied the book: "Hacking, the art of exploitation". What do I really want? I want to have my own family. What did I do this week to reach that goal? Not much… but your post gave me something to think about and encouraged me to set goals to become the man I want to be.
When I was a kid, what I wanted to the most was being able to play Chopin’s Polonaise Op. 53 No. 6. It’s the coolest piano composition in the entire world. I thought it was going to be impossible to play. I got the sheet music from my music teacher, and I started learning it note by note, measure by measure, right hand and left hand. I spent at least 1 hour each day practicing the song in a small electronic keyboard my parents saved from the dumpster in a church building. A year later, I did not only learned the entire 14 pages of this incredibly hard song…. I won a piano contest, which was one of the happiest days of my life. This taught me that I can do everything in this life.What do I want now? I want to be a security expert. This week I studied the book: "Hacking, the art of exploitation". What do I really want? I want to have my own family. What did I do this week to reach that goal? Not much… but your post gave me something to think about and encouraged me to set goals to become the man I want to be.