I’ve found that the most helpful thing for me in achieving my goals seems to be picking the right goals to begin with. I try to find goals that I really care about with a large portion of my being, rather than goals that only a small portion of my being cares about. This requires a fair amount of introspection. What do I want? It’s not an easy question; counterintuitively, we don’t know what we want. But, if I know what I want, then I can get it.
I’ll give a couple examples. I used to have the conscious goal, “write music.” My real goals, though I did not know it, were “express myself,” “experience beauty,” and “be more intuitive.” Now I pursue those goals directly, in more concentrated forms than I could achieve with music-writing.
I now know that I can express myself better through writing than through music, so I now pursue the goal of self-expression much more efficiently by writing.
I now know that I can experience beauty in almost anything, and so my aesthetic interests are no longer limited to the narrow domain of music.
I have integrated the goal of being more intuitive in numerous ways into my life. However, finding efficient ways of becoming more intuitive remains a challenge for me.
So I no longer make music, but I still get all of the things that I wanted out of music-making, and I get them much more efficiently and in larger quantities than I did with music-making. This was made possible by my increased knowledge of what I want.
So to recap, I think that the first step in getting what you want, is knowing what you want. If you’re having trouble getting yourself to pursue your goals, maybe you’re wrong about what your goals are.
I’ve found that the most helpful thing for me in achieving my goals seems to be picking the right goals to begin with. I try to find goals that I really care about with a large portion of my being, rather than goals that only a small portion of my being cares about. This requires a fair amount of introspection. What do I want? It’s not an easy question; counterintuitively, we don’t know what we want. But, if I know what I want, then I can get it.
I’ll give a couple examples. I used to have the conscious goal, “write music.” My real goals, though I did not know it, were “express myself,” “experience beauty,” and “be more intuitive.” Now I pursue those goals directly, in more concentrated forms than I could achieve with music-writing.
I now know that I can express myself better through writing than through music, so I now pursue the goal of self-expression much more efficiently by writing.
I now know that I can experience beauty in almost anything, and so my aesthetic interests are no longer limited to the narrow domain of music.
I have integrated the goal of being more intuitive in numerous ways into my life. However, finding efficient ways of becoming more intuitive remains a challenge for me.
So I no longer make music, but I still get all of the things that I wanted out of music-making, and I get them much more efficiently and in larger quantities than I did with music-making. This was made possible by my increased knowledge of what I want.
So to recap, I think that the first step in getting what you want, is knowing what you want. If you’re having trouble getting yourself to pursue your goals, maybe you’re wrong about what your goals are.