Direction, Not Intention, Determines Destination
Where will you end up in 5 years?
Where did you want to end up 5 years ago?
Are you at where you wanted to be 5 years ago?
I'm going to talk about "the Principle of the Path."
The Principle of the Path states that, regardless of where you want to end up or who you want to become, if the path you're taking today does not lead to where you want to end up, you won't end up there.
It is as simple as that.
For example, say, if you wanted to go to Singapore, and took a plane headed to Poland, you won't end up in Singapore.
If you wanted to go buy a new laptop, and went to a fruit & vegetables store, you won't be able to buy a laptop.
If you wanted to go to a music school, and went to a business school instead, you won't go to a music school.
If you wanted to do well at school and become a successful businessman, but now if you're spending all your time watching TV and surfing on the internet, checking emails and Facebook, the chances are the path you're taking at the moment does not lead you to your desired destination, but rather to more of TV watching, internet surfing, and email & Facebook checking.
Your intention might be to become a successful writer, but if you're spending all your precious time doing something else, the chances are your path is not leading you to become a successful writer, but becoming something else other than a successful writer.
It is so simple. Yet, we sometimes naively assume and presume that just daydreaming and thinking about our desired destination would lead us to it somehow.
The truth is that we have to be on the right path and take steps now, no matter how many steps and how long it takes to get us to our destination.
Just as every morning when we get up and get in the car, we have certain directions that we must take to get to work, we must take certain directions in our lives to take us to our desired destination.
Scenario 1:
- Bob lives in Singapore.
- He wanted to go to New York (Intention).
- He took a plane headed to Australia (Direction).
- Result: He ended up somewhere he didn't want to be (Destination).
Scenario 2:
- Bob lives in Singapore.
- He wanted to go to New York (Intention).
- He took a plane headed to New York (Direction)
- Result: He ended up in New York where he wanted to be (Destination).
Intention was the same in both scenarios, yet Bob ended up in different destinations, depending on the directions each plane took.
Therefore,
Direction, Not Intention, Determines Destination.
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