Looking Ahead

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Looking Ahead

"If you aim at nothing, you' will hit it every time." Zig Ziglar

While riding or driving.we look ahead at varying distances, depending on the speed with which we travel. While riding a bicycle, we look ahead a few metres, while riding a motorbike/scooter, we look ahead a few more metres, and while driving a car. we need to look a lot further ahead. The reason for the varying distances we look ahead, is that obstacles come to us at varying speeds, depending on the speed we're traveling at.

The same is true in life as well - depending on the task at hand or the vision we have in mind, we look ahead at varying distances. For example, when it comes to cooking, for example, we plan for day-to-day cooking differently than we would if we were planning for a month. The the budgets vary, the quantities of purchases vary, the storage varies etc.

The same is true of Education, Career, Developing Skills, Marriage, Parenting, Preparing for Eternity etc. We need to look at these with a long-term vision, and not as if they were just daily chores to get through. This helps give us perspective to the task along the way and also helps build the endurance, skills and character to get through all of these phases of life. We also stand a better chance of fulfilling our vision this way, as opposed to if we approached them with a short term vision. A misplaced view on such walks of life can hamper our progress and cause frustration and unnecessary mishaps, and perhaps even result in us quitting along the way.

Short term visions need short term goals, and long term visions require long term goals. Some times, it helps to have a series of short term goals to help us move ahead towards fulfilling our long term visions. But let's never confuse fulfilling a goal with fulfilling our vision.

We need to know what requires short term vision and what requires long term vision. But to have no vision in life, is to head nowhere and achieve nothing.

If you were benefited by this thought, please pass it on to others.

Michael Collins
Email: nuggetsfromeverydaylife@gmail.com

Comments

  1. Vijay Samuel Benjamin2 October 2019 at 18:43

    One of my favourite qoute by Zig Ziglar. Truly bring in a whole lot of perspective to life and the things we do. Thanks for illustrating the qoute so well.

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