Ultimate Goal

Claude M. Bristol said, ~The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end.~ Every person from the time that he or she was a teenager has had or still has an ultimate goal in life. A goal that is a burning desire in one's mind, heart, and soul; and though it's far off in the distance, one can clearly see it from where he or she is.

Let me ask you this question, what is your ultimate goal in life and have you achieved it or are you still trying to achieve that particular goal? It's somewhat of a great motivator for a person as he or she wakes up each morning and strives to be the very best at one does and in turn one's specific door of opportunity will be opened. Yet, for some people short cuts are the way to go as one wants to find that back door in; but what will that accomplish? It's just a stepping stone to nowhere that will locked out of the house, in a manner of speaking. Fot that person didn't earn the blood, sweat, and tears that other people worked their tails off, so to speak, to get to the pinnacle of one's personal and/or professional life.

In a way, each of us can be considered Indiana Jones trying to attain that proverbial Holy Grail. That Holy Grail, which is different for each of us can somewhat signify making a mark in one's personal history book of life. Though it may not mean any importance in the annuals of what is going on in the world today, it is important to each of us who wants to prove something. In some aspect, it's not so much proving it to others, it's proving it to yourself that if you set your mind to it, work hard, and not give up one's ultimate goal will be achieved. It's just a matter of have that one basic commodity that is precious to each and every one of us and that is patience.

Sometimes a person can literally be obsessed with getting that ultimate goal, as well as, achieving it. If compared to, it would be like the Lord of the Rings' character Smeagol who couldn't live without having his one and only precious which would be the ring. He would do anything to have it back in his hands because it contained absolute power. That obsession, as you know, was his downfall because it overtook his mindset. If you think about it, each of us can be like Smeagol in a way, because one's absolute power is our own ambition which can either attain absolute victory and/or absolute defeat as one tries or is trying to achieve his or her ultimate goal, whatever it may be.

In the whole scheme of things, the ultimate goal or goals that we have set for ourselves will always be there. It's not going to simply walk away or disappear when you close your eyes or turn around. Ultimately, the best course of action for each of us is to continue on our own personal journey of life. A journey, in which you will experience what life has to offer, seeing the world and what it has to offer, as well as, meeting that one special person who will make an unknowingly definite impact in one's seemingly complicated, yet simplistic life. I'll end this Yoda-ism with a quote that best sums up this particular thought which is: ~Never be consumed with goal that you fail to enjoy the journey.~