Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Daily Clarity

Most of us know or at least have an idea of what we want out of life. The goals can be as simple as getting rid of a bad habit or as major as an entire life change. Either way one of the major obstacles in our way is ourselves and our visions.

Although we can see what we want, and think we deserve it, without true clarity the dream or goal seems unlikely. Why is this? Why is it something that should be achieved seems unattainable sometimes? When this question comes up in my life I review my clarity. My clarity is not only knowing and seeing the finish line, but being prepared and ready to run the race.

There are so many people in the world that know that they want something, but have no idea what they want. Then there are some that know what they want but have know idea how to get there. There are others that know what they want, know how to get there, but don't think they will get what they want. In all cases, clarity should be the focus.

If you know what you want, how clear is the road to your destination? If you leave your house in the morning on your way to work, do you have a good idea how to get there? Now let's say that you are going to take the interstate to your job. You hop on the on-ramp and while driving on the highway you see that there is a major spill from a tanker and there is no getting through. What do you do?

Do you stop the car and not go to work? The only logical thing to do is get of the highway and find another road. While you are on that new road do you anticipate another tanker on the back roads to your job? Of course not. And even by some twisted series of events that lead to another road blockage, you would still try to find another road.

So why is this not the case with our goals and dreams? Why do we fail to map out a road to our goals with clarity? Why do we not look at an obstacle and find another way to reach our destination? When you set a goal and decide to go after a dream, daily clarity is important. Everyday the road to what you want should be as clear to you as the road to any physical destination. You must be able to know the turns, maneuver around obstacles.

If you have a long term goal, ask yourself every morning "what am I going to do today to get me there?" And every morning have an answer to that question. A successful life is just a bunch of successful days in a row. Gain daily clarity about your dreams and what you can do to make the dreams a reality.

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Rick G said...

Thanks, Ralph I needed that today!

Bijay Rungta said...

Hi Ralph, I got to your home page at through a reference to your post about the meaningful conversation and browsed a number of other articles by you there..
I wanted to subscribe to RSS feed for your posts at but I didn't find it.
Do you have a RSS feed?
Are you gonna post all your entries here as well?

RalphJP said...

Thanks for stopping by Bijay. I'm working on rebuilding my site because the software I used for Potential2success is limited in many ways. Since P2S does not have the feeds, I'll post on this blog about updates. Hopefully the new site will be up by the begining of next year.

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Bijay Rungta said...

Just came across this post and thout it might be useful..

Comparing 3 RSS feed scraping tools

You can perhaps create an RSS feed for you real Website using the services mentioned there..

If you are not able to do it yourself, I might be able top help you if I find time

c ya,

RalphJP said...

Thanks Bijay I'll look into them. It would be nice to have feeds avaliable now while I'm working on the new P2S. If not, it shouldn't be too much longer before it is up and running. later