Y'day was the first time I actually used a treadmill. It was new and a unique experience for me. The trainer pressed some buttons on the control panel which looked like a launch pad of a small flight. Then he said "go...." and the land beneath me started to move backwards. Although I had control over the whole machine, it took me sometime to get used to.
In our life, all of us have our goals, dreams and desires. We all are constantly pursuing our happyness. It can be a direct pursuit or an indirect pursuit. The final expectation is to be able to achieve our goal. It is also something that we currently dont have and thats why we WANT it. So we are trying hard to move away from where we are and closer to our goal. For theoretical purposes, I will say we have to move forward towards our goal.
While I was on the tradmill, I realised even though I was moving forward, technicall, I was at the same place. It struck me then, that a lot of things that we do in our life, assuming its taking us towards our goal are actually not moving us at all. It just consumes our energy and makes us be there. Things that bother us, affect us, stress us out, trivial details which are unimportant like standing in front of the mirror spending good 5-7 mins only on deciding what shirt to wear on a perfectly normal day. I feel what is missing is checkpoints to tell us we are going forward. For e.g if we desire to buy a new house, after about 2-3 years, we need to sit back and think, where have we reached in the pursuit. If not started seeing property options do we atleast have some amount of savings ONLY and only for that goal?
What we need to really think is whether we have checkpoints towards our goal just for us to know that we are moving forward on a "path" and we are not on a "treadmill of life".
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:) that was a good read! although i must admit what we are lacking in terms of 'checkpoints' is something which we can create ourselves, its psychology in its most basic form, setting s.m.a.r.t targets S= Specific M=measurable A= achievable R=realistic T=timely, if these five things are done, the likelihood of achieving goals increases.
nice one i liked it
slispvery well written article...very thought provoking too...makes me want to introspect...
Very interesting & intelligent thought must say . Never thought like this before. Well scripted and presented...
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