Being present minded while creating our preferred future

Make a plan, and stick to it…that’s the only way to succeed in life!

Set goals, practice time management skills, and be organized, because only type A, highly driven people accomplish worthwhile things!

Do these statements sound familiar, the very epitome of business success wisdom?

And yet, they are profoundly wrong. An unwavering devotion to a static goal does not mesh well with a constantly evolving life.

Is our life made for our goals, or is our future created by our highest and best self, that which our life reflects by the choices we make in the present moment?

In other words, when our goals and who we are come into conflict, which should we change? Many would say that we should change ourselves to accomplish our goals. Lets think about that for a moment.

When we were children, a favorite question of grownups was to ask us, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Doctors, firemen, and police officers were popular answers among my friends. Did we really know at the time what it meant to be a firefighter or policeman?

If we hate the sight of blood and want to be a paramedic, or detest to tell a lie but aspire to being a politician, our goals and our heart are not going to be working well together. As we come closer to making the goal a reality, we will find myself moving away from our highest and best self. We will experience cognitive dissonance, where what we do and say does not match up with who we are.

It is not that the job of a paramedic or a politician changes, it is that we change on a daily basis. As we develop our talents, what we want also changes. Rigid goals sabotage that organic process of growth.

So how can we live being present minded and centered, while still actively creating our preferred future? Actually, it is pretty simple.

As a creator of our lives, we are not in the position of making something from nothing, but rather uncovering and sharing the greatness we already possess. The preferred future is one where we become explicitly what our highest and best self is now.

Think of a tiny acorn. Does it grow into a mighty Oak tree overnight? Does it worry and stress over whether it ought to be an Elm tree instead? Does it plan where every branch should grow, and the width of each year’s ring?

No.

The acorn allows itself to grow, taking whatever nourishment the sun and rain bestow upon it, relying upon the storms and seasons to grant it strength and resiliency. It invites the universe to grant it all it needs to reach its full unique potential, and the universe gives it gladly.

Achieving our unique potential is nothing more (or less) than accepting who we truly are and inviting the universe to help us fully open our lives to its light. Each of us are meant to be amazing and productive in a specific way that is unique to us. To say we want to be like someone else is to diminish our own infinite worth.

Every germ of life in this world starts off in a small, even microscopic state, and yet look at the magnificence that occurs as that life unfolds in full-bodied splendor!

Every decision we make in the present moment should align completely with our highest and best self. As we do that, just like the acorn, the universe puts everything into our lives that will bring us to a fullness of our potential.

We will never achieve our preferred future by adherence to goals, timelines, and artificial processes that "make us more productive” while requiring us to change who we are.

We create our destiny in the present moment by each mindful choice that reflects our highest and best self.

As we pay the price to learn who we really are, what we most want to be, and live faithfully according to that knowledge, we will inevitably and organically grow into that person.

Like the acorn linking a chain of present moments across the decades, we will become our own mighty, amazing, and unique Oak.

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This was originally published on Beingpresentminded November 1st, 2016 at:
https://beingpresentminded.wordpress.com/page/4/