1)?
In our quest to become successful, powerful, rich, famous or to attain even financial freedom, we often get enslaved by the very process of it.
Suppose you have a target to gain x amount by 10 years to attain financial freedom. You do that and then the very next moment many of us think of how to make it x + x amount. Did you really attain any sort of freedom then? Same goes with those various other colourful desires as well.
So, I believe, to set a target is to learn how to practise self restraint. Target is to be met and be satisfied with it. Target is to be met and be free of it.
Now, suppose you set a target and you don’t meet it for some reason. The reason could be anything. It could be that you have wisened and you longer find that target attractive or you just quit.
Well, if you just quit then you will have regrets for sure. But, if you no longer find it attractive then it means that you’ve evolved into a higher being.
It’s like a toddler would not like an infant’s toys and a teenager would not like a toddler’s toys. They’ve evolved.
So, I believe a target is to be set for you to be able to get out of this cycle of desires. Once we meet our target the thing that we must practise then is how to be free of it.
Self restraint comes into picture then.
Setting targets after targets to meet them might be called ‘hunger’ nowadays but too much ‘hunger’ may lead to obesity and a lot of other physical problems remember.?
2)?
Whenever there’s confusion in the head, the first thing that needs to be done is to accept it.
As a human being it is natural to have contradictory thoughts. But then too much confusion leads to frustration.
So, to clear confusion out we must first understand the cause of it. Too many times it is because of the destination that we want to reach or the target that we set for ourselves. I want to become ‘this’ or I want ‘this’. We fix the target but remain absolutely clueless about how to reach there.
This is because of the objective nature of our thinking. We generally think of what to become, where to get to rather than what to do and how to do .
This ‘what to do’ is the subjective thoughts we as a race need to emphasize on during our goal setting practises.
Om Shanti….?