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Date Posted: 15:06:27 06/28/07 Thu
Author: N
Subject: Re: suggestions: Aim high
In reply to: Nanette 's message, "Re: suggestions" on 14:29:45 06/28/07 Thu

"The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

Now, being in control of those thoughts, and now, that we "know" that we are a great employee/painter/writer/athlete, etc. we can do what we know. The idea is that once we have that much focus and control of our thoughts we can put those thoughts into action. Now we go do great work. We paint. We write. We work out.

How do we go about doing those things? We set specific goals for ourselves. How do we make sure we never plateau those goals and continue ever growing? We aim high. Set your sights on what you want, not on what people tell you is "realistic". No impossibilities. Motivation comes out of what we want, not what is "realistic".

Addicts have a tendency to tell themselves they just want to stop using. But, then what? Goals for addicts decrease in demand as the addiction takes control. It is an ever belittling state to be in. And then one day an addict wakes up to find that the goal of, for example, building that dream house with their own hands has become the hope that one can find a place that will rent a studio apartment to them. What happened? The drug/alcohol took over. Once an addict is able to rid him/herself of the addiction, goals need to be set back up high again.
Once we're back up to setting those goals high we can take it step by step in getting there. Smaller goals to obtain the larger one. But, always keeping that higher goal in mind.
We know how to do it, or we know how to find out how. So, we go do that.
2 more of my favorite quotes, then I'll give it a rest.

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,
And endeavors to live the life which he has imagined,
He will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." - Henry David Thoreau

"Surely there is no greater gift to a man then that which turns all his aims into parching lips and all life into a fountain." - Kahlil Gibran

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Re: suggestions: Aim high -- N, 15:40:54 06/28/07 Thu
- Re: suggestions: Aim high (NT) -- N, 11:22:57 11/19/07 Mon