The Second Book The 87th Chapter - I Wish

Dec 13/17

What is your greatest wish you would like to achieve?  Are you achieving your greatest wish?  If not, why not?

I am going to state something you might find controversial and hopefully thought provoking.  A wish is nothing more than hope and this combination alone has a low value to you on actually accomplishing your dreams.  So to clarify wishes and hopes do have value but are low in value if you don't change your life based on those wishes and hopes.  So essentially if you don't make your life changes based on your wish, you are wasting your greatest gift, which is your time.

Hope is the seed of the foundation of your growth and is your start but it is vital to act on that thought of what you truly want to acquire in your life.  What sometimes happens is our wish is lost because we will justify our lack of execution by our excuses.  All kinds of excuses come to mind of not seeing our wish grow and I am sure you have experienced most of them.

One in particular I would like to share is one of my physical improvement journey.  When I was in my old management position, I wished I had more energy and time to spend working out.  Always be mindful of what you wish for, as about a year later I exited my position and I had all summer free.  It was like I was a kid again and I had all summer vacation to do whatever I wanted to do with my time.  I would have more than enough time to complete my wish of working out for an hour a day. 

At first I started to do that but with the passage of time, I slowly started to find excuses that I had to complete other valuable tasks.  Which the net result in me not spending my full hour working out, as I had planned.  This is what I mean of a wish that now becomes old and ineffective.  I recognized this pattern in me slipping from my original goal and I knew I had to make changes.  The change I made was after the original excitement was over, I had to create my own reality of sustaining energy.  That sustaining energy is the hardest to create yet this is where you will feel the most value.  The sense of your accomplishment you feel now by you creating your forward movement will build your self-confidence.  This is key to master if you want to actualize your wish.

A great start is always to build your hope but if you don't act on that hope, that hope that was once valuable actually becomes the opposite.  With no results and combined with the lack of execution will take away from your self-confidence.  With that one mistake and if not corrected by you, will start your slow spiral down of losing you.  The secret is follow through, which leads to consistency, which leads to accomplishments.

This is your key to going further than you ever thought possible.  It is better to have one wish and actualize that wish than to have 10 wishes and to complete none.  Like any other skill once you start to master the execution of your wish then you can start to level up and add additional wishes.  The completion of your wishes and hopes will create your success.