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Chip Away to Create Your Destiny

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Have you ever wondered how an artist is able to chip away piece by tiny piece of excess rock to finally end up with something as incredible as the statue of David for instance?

The story has it that when Michelangelo was commissioned to do the sculpture of King David he looked at hundreds of blocks of marble before he decided on the "right" one. To most of us all those blocks shown to him would have looked more or less the same but for Michelangelo it needed to be a certain piece of marble - nothing else would do.

Why was that?
It was because he knew exactly what he wanted his David to look like. He could see the end result in front of his eyes.

When asked how he was going to create such a fine figure as King David out of such an enormous chunk of marble his answer was: "That's easy. All I have to do is chip away everything that is not David." Isn't that incredible? And so easy...

But why am I telling you this story?
Do you know what your David (end result) looks like?
Do you know where you are going with the actions you take every day?

Did you know that about 90 % of us do not have a clear goal;
do not have a clear vision of what we want?

But if we don't have a very clear picture of what we aim at how can we reach it?
How can we chip away at the rock to create our David if we don't know what David is supposed to look like?
That doesn't make sense, does it?

Let me give you another example. Imagine you are on a nice sailing yacht and you want to go from Marbella to Mallorca (Spain) or from Miami to Cuba. The distance is only a few hundred miles but if you would go off course by only 1? you would miss the island altogether and might end up on a completely different destination. And the same happens when you don't see your final destination and go off course on the path to your life's destiny!

Before we can even attempt to reach our destiny; before we can start walking towards what we most want in our life, we must know exactly what it is we want. Only then can we sail towards it. This is absolutely fundamental.

Action Steps:

Go somewhere where you have peace and quiet and 3 crisp pieces of paper and a pen

write down what you would do if you had not a worry and all the money and time in the world. Describe it in great detail, get emotional and let yourself get carried away. Nothing is impossible!

Take a fresh piece of paper and write what you want to tell your great grandchildren about your life.

Now write your own eulogy. What do you want people to say about you when you are gone.

Now compare what you have written and merge the 3 pictures. Can you see your David emerge out of the crude block? Does that sound like something to aspire to?

If you are not yet 100 % sure what it is you want from life the above will help you find it. They might not be the easiest of exercise but they are extremely efficient and helpful.

Source: Free Articles

About the Author

Barbara Hofmeister lives the philosophy she shares with us. She knows that even small obstacles can stop us from going after our dreams and at http://www.trainingvisions.com she empowers you to dare and go past those fears and doubts in order to realize that you always have a choice.

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