Boiling down:
The beginning and the end-all of an enthralling expedition: www.
It’s an exasperating feeling to dissect the anatomy of a journey or waging war, by first having an effective cost-benefit ratio to efficiently breakdown objectives of the war and arriving at a conclusive end of knowing, if it was a battle worth taking on, or a sinking ship worth anchoring loose.
But upon hitting the dart on the tree, instead of the dartboard, I began skewing my laser vision and slowly inching towards the bull's eye.
I learnt the power of questioning everything.
But I also learnt the priority list of my self-quizzing in this piece of introspective business I had taken up. I dialed down to 3 questions, blinkering away like a horse that poorly crosses the road yet swerves in the lane, I had to find a way to get my horsing mind onto the fast lane, to zip through with absolute cutthroat abilities focused on pacing through life.
The 3 questions are: www.
w1 - Why?
w2 - What?
w3 - Where?
All in all, these 3 expansive questions help me bring the point of convergence in actualizing any vision I may have.
Why?
Before taking up a project, asking the question WHY, without which you may be precariously raging towards failure at the very beginning.
A strong WHY? brings stronger human will and vigor.
It is always good to keep in check your reason for doing things, especially when things get tough.
What?
I have a special term for this. I call it INCENTIVIZE.
My dog wouldn’t do any fetching if I did not offer him the bait of a treat to get him to comply. As humans, we are innately the same.
We all need to be constantly motivated in order for us to do something. The outcome most times isn’t enough.
For instance: If you have a messy room, the incentive of having a clean room AFTER you clean it up is NOT enough. Even though you benefit from the organized and decluttered room.
However, you’d be on your toes and up if someone offered you $20 to get the task done.
That, my friends, is the power punch of INCENTIVIZATION.
To break this down even further, ask yourself this question: WHAT’S IN IT FOR ME?!
It is a sure shot way to assure getting the best deal for yourself in every game play.
Where?
Direction, Direction, Direction.
Seek direction and you'll never be lost, because numerous things in the charter would be undoubtedly off-limits.
Don’t be one with the rest, all of whom would be spinning around with whirly eyed confusion in their stupidity, driven over by every wind of confusion.
But you my friend, would be guided by the Best of the Best - The Supreme Creator of all Creation.
I'm horrible at directions on the road, but on the stronger side in my navigation in pursuit of my voyages through spiritual waters, I wish to be propelled by the Creator, as I've recognized in my carnal self, I'm just an anchor and life is but a blipping dream.
We have a condescending view of our attempts at greatness. Most of us are going nowhere fast but going somewhere. "SOMEWHERE" shape-shifts as the prism of time goes by into a frantic and desperate "ANYWHERE", which inevitably, perforce, transcends into a silencing and deathly NOWHERE.
In the process of time, as our eyesight begins to fade, we disenchanting-ly awaken to the dusk instead of the dawn. It's a pressing requisite that we ought to fathom the alarming need for VISION.
The word WHERE explicates the profound and not-so mystical vantage point. Everything else is extraneous to a mind who truly loves to travel in the bubbling complexion of growth.
What's our exemplar for the question: Where?
In analogical terms, if I were to dissect and anatomically decipher my "WHERE's", by laws of being specific to laser beam my focal horizons, I'd perhaps set aside 4 specific WHERE's to periscopically focus my upward staircase to Scriptural and Spiritual growth.
Where is this going?
It's going to an awe-snapping moment at hacking circumstances, waving against my seashore at nerve racking rather high-tiding phases of my life.
Where do I want to take this?
For me to unapologetically and unabashedly pivot my way into my most advantageous stance with a mindset I’ve uniquely coined:
Poised Power.
Where does the Creator intend for me to go?
Undoubtedly towards living my best life, with manifold lessons learnt in my spiritual hike through life.
Through my precocious habit of envisioning an array of outcomes, events and stages of possibilities, I shall draw out a mental whiteboard analogy to you.
Look at LIFE as a cab-ride.
Imagine the driver to hate your guts so bad that he compulsively wishes to get the better of your lack of directional abilities, leading you to the nearest dumping yard.
But you, my friend, need to outlaw the man, pick his deepest thoughts by your convictions and scriptural soundness, hot-wiring him to drop you off to the nearest port for your exhilarating voyage.
From here, it's a battle of wills.
If your will prevails over his, you'll be on the next ship on a scenic spiritual voyage through life, provided you make the best decisions, which coincidentally yet paradoxically inadvertently would lead you to paradise.
But if his will prevails, you'd definitely be running amok the garbage bin, directionless, soulless and eventually lifeless.
This sinister cab driver is the world and its uncanny ways leading to death. But you, the human-visionary, multifocal man, are responsible for actualizing the homecoming victory, a seat on the ARK TO LIFE.
Your mind is the horse, and you are the rider, don't let the horse take you for a ride, the flaming sword of your mind shall never stop stalling at the most diversified path to destruction.
The horse is a genius. He has his blinkers on. He is not going to sway. He banks on you getting lost in the glitz and glams of vanity to overtake you and run you over and throw you into bed with a broken back.
But a strong sense of direction actualizes all well-meaning visions, ordained and approved by the Creator in His will.
Life without Direction is a ship without a propeller.
A nose without nostrils.
A Game without a scoreboard.
Never stop dreaming.
Never blot out the very necessary WHERE out of the www.
And that is it.
Your very own adaptable blueprint to breeze through the uncertain waters of life with finesse.
And remember to always construct a class act.