Creating my own flow of inspiration – for life’s emergencies

I like to write down my goals, it’s a good practice. I’ve tried and thrown out a few ways to do this – in an ongoing attempt to keep that all important representation of my ambitions inspirational. Theres nothing quite as derogatory and banal as a having your set of goals mimic a grocery-list.

The following is my newest – I did three things:

1. Divide it into sections – for organization and focus

2. Put some words of people I can trust at the top – for days when I can’t trust myself

3. Ask questions – so each time I review my goals, I can also rethink them and refine them.

This took me about 3-4 hours to put together. The time is worth it’s weight in gold.

Feel free to take something from this, but remember it’s important for you to go out and formulate something that inspires you specifically.

Want to see this forever-changing goals-binder format?

THE ATTITUDE:
SMILE WHEN IT HURTS THE MOST

“Our attitude toward life determines life’s attitude towards us.”

“If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.”

Is any part of your mindset holding you back?

Is there any way of behaving that upsets you?

Find a solution to the problem right now. Don’t sacrifice another tomorrow.

THE FAMILY:
JUST WALK BESIDE ME AND BE MY FRIEND

“A friend knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words”

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”
- Dr. Seuss

“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”
- Albert Camus

“Are you upset little friend? Have you been lying awake worrying? Well, don’t worry…I’m here. The flood waters will recede, the famine will end, the sun will shine tomorrow, and I will always be here to take care of you.
-Charlie Brown to Snoopy

How are you going to be a good person?

How are you going to make other people feel like the most important things on earth?

Spread that love like too much butter on just enough toast.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want

People need loving most when they deserve it the least.

Love Imperfections

THE IMAGINATION:
A PREVIEW OF COMING ATTRACTIONS

“We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.”

“Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.”

C.S. Lewis

Do you want to achieve any artistic goals? If so, what?

THE RESPONSIBILITY IN SOCIETY:
GO BIG

“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.”
- James Dean

“Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?”

Benjamin Franklin

What level do you want to reach in your career?

THE UNDERSTANDING

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”
- Albert Einstein
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me”

C.S. Lewis

“You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.”

Albert Einstein

“Those of us we have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous extension of our being which we owe to authors”

C.S. Lewis

Is there any knowledge you want to acquire in particular?
What information and skills will you need to achieve other goals?
Which books do I want to look into?

THE HELICOPTER, THE CHOOCHOO, THE STEAMLINER:
STAY AHHHHH…REFRESHING

“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.”
- Albert Einstein

“To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.”
Benjamin Franklin

I have a baseline standard for this healthy athletic safeguarding:

1. Heart beat to 170 for 30-90 minutes

2. Green unmolested RAW food. Just enough.

3. Digesting starts 7:59PM. Not even one grape after.

4. Yoga before sunrise

This is not anal. There is more to life than sugar, starch, fat, and cake.

I’d rather have energy than chocolate any day.

Food can be a major interruption. It can seriously trip me up, but I can easily step over it.

When taste is boring, life becomes more interesting.

120 years

I really want to meet my great great great grandchildren.

ADVENTURES

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

C.S. Lewis

How do you want to enjoy yourself? You should ensure that some of your life is for you!

RETURNING THE FAVOR:
We must become the change we want to see

“Only a life lived for others is worth living”
- Albert Einstein

“Always remember to slow down in life; live, breathe, and learn; take a
look around you whenever you have time and never forget everything and every person that has the least place within your heart.”

Do you want to make the world a better place? If so, how?

FINANCES:

How much do you need to sustain all of the above?

How many ways you can earn that sum?