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I don’t want to scare anyone, but if you don’t have some goals that you are striving for, you may end up dying.  The Bible says “Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

Having no goals will probably not send you into cardiac arrest, but when you are wandering aimlessly in life without a vision, a heart attack sometimes sounds appealing.  I have been there.  There is nothing worse than having no direction, no motive, no reason to get up in the morning… even if it is to fail at something.  No vision.  No dreams or goals.  Nothing to look forward to.  Just the day to day monotony of drifting with the tide, not knowing where you will end up and not caring.

You can save yourself.  Get a vision and start paddling toward it.  How do you get yourself a vision?  The same way you get dressed in the morning, or order off a menu at a restaurant, or go shopping for shoes.  You choose!  You decide!  You pick!   If you think picking out a new pair of shoes is exciting, wait until you start deciding what fantastic things you are going to do with your life!

Just choose!   Anything you want!  It doesn’t have to be realistic, it doesn’t have to be practical, it doesn’t have to ever come true.  Actually, a dream or vision is more powerful when it makes no worldly sense.  This is your vision and you don’t have to run it by anyone for their approval.  If it gives you goosebumps, you have chosen wisely.  If you can’t sleep at night because it is all you think about, you have my congratulations!  If  it makes you feel alive, you will not perish.   Now you can charge like a rhinoceros!   Scott Alexander

Dreams are more powerful when they make no worldly sense - like a flower that only blooms at night.

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