The Path – Goals

Warriors Dream of Maps. Are you talking to yourself as you follow your routine? Make it positive coaching dialog. What IS your routine? How has your routine evolved? What efforts have you made to change it to newly perceived needs and discoveries? Or is your routine formed outside you, for the benefit of others?

If You Have No Goal, Any Path Will Take You There – But you won’t like where you end up. Warriors are Goal-oriented. As you become more adept at change, you realize that dividing effort into “steps” to achieve a goal is critical. It won’t happen fast. Your conscious, subconscious, unconscious and collective unconscious (not to mention your pre-conscious!) are going to kick up a helluva fuss. But change is guaranteed.

Warriors Are Sore-muscled Athletes. Day 2, thinking, I CAN’T DO THIS. Guess what? EVERYBODY THINKS THAT! Expect it! You treat yourself with loving compassion and cold compresses, hot baths and massage. In other words, there is an established map, a way to GET THROUGH THIS. The challenge is to CUSTOMIZE your map.

Warriors Use Models. We need a constantly evolving pit crew of helpers. A side effect of routine remodeling is “crazy thinking.” We all need somebody to talk us off the ledge, somebody who is familiar with not just our goals but what we are going through. Your id is holding the rest of you hostage, and you need an experienced hostage negotiator. So, don’t try making it through this crisis without a buddy AND a coach. AA has an acronym – HALT representing:
Hungry
Angry
Lonely
Tired

These are the emotion states in which you make Bad Decisions. So when you see that condition developing – Halt. Call your hostage negotiator immediately.

Models – “Setting goals is the first step into turning the invisible into the visible” – Tony Robbins

“If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not people or things”

– Albert Einstein

“A goal without a plan is just a wish” – Antoine St. Exupery

“Always remember our focus determines your reality” – George Lucas

#Haiku: Facing the Boogeyman

Mimics dread
Mocks goals
Derails
Ambition;
Seize him and
Laugh
In his face