How many times do well-meaning folks pump up the idea that the difference between people who fail & those who succeed is that the later group team set clearly defined goals with determined steps to achieve them? I, for one, beg to differ.
The people who succeed are the ones who've moved past distraction, deflection of energies & derailment of meaningful action. Some people seem born knowing how to brush them aside, knuckling down from childhood on. Others struggle, ultimately overcoming the pull into inertia or misdirected busyness. And others never latch onto their challenge & keep setting new, awesome goals that are somehow never realized.
Stephen Coven introduced me to the thought that people are drawn to setting great new goals & most are just as drawn to shying away from the mundane grunt work needed to make they actually happening. What a high, coming up with a new great destiny, what a psychic rush to see it in our minds as if already real; what a leaden thump down to earth to realize the things we have to give up to make room for our new pursuit, to handle the drudgery of staying on task all the way to completion.
A strong sense of imagination is a blessing in getting from goal to completion. Imagine it done, then work through whatever presents itself to what is already in your head & heart as a done deal. Realize - before you can earn that alluring crown of laurels, you have to first brush away every sign & semblance of whatever acts to distract deflect derail.
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