QUO VADIS?

When one first join WA, and start reading the course and posts, you tend to be overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of it all. However, one has to realize that nothing worthwhile comes easy.

I presume that most of the folk here are here because they have an ideal to improve their lives and circumstances and want to be successful at what they are doing.

The late Earl Nightingale defined success as “THE PROGRESSIVE REALISATION OF A WORTHY IDEAL OR GOAL”. It does not happen overnight! It needs some time.

Note that it mentions ideal or goal. Just different names for objectives.

So if you do not have clear and specific objectives for your presence here then the chances are almost one hundred percent that you will not be successful at improving your circumstances.

A good objective states the desired end result in clear terms. It quantifies it and sets the time limit for its attainment.

GarethB just posted an excellent piece on goal setting. (See his blog)

Ask any ship’s captain where his next port of call is and he will immediately tell you, without any hesitation. He knows where he is going and have already planned his route by means of charts and other navigational tools.

He is not going to sail out the harbour without having done the necessary preparation of planning his course to his next destination. Otherwise he has an equal chance of floundering on the rocks somewhere.

What does all this mean to us?

It means that we need a clear picture of what it is that we want to happen, how it is going to happen and by when it is going to happen. Written down and kept somewhere where we will see it and look at it every day.

Good luck my fellow travelers!