Step 23 - Landing Your Plane On The Great Wall

Getting to our goals, is like landing a plane on an airplane carrier, when there is a storm around. For most people it seems impossible to land the plane in a storm on their target and they will crash, because there are many places where we can crash, but only one place where we can land.

How do we land the plane wherever we want to go? Through "force of will", which is developed through faith.

Before we can make it through the storm of life, we must have faith that we have the success before we have it, because without faith, we will not be able to make it through.

There is a story of a group of man on a raft in the middle of the ocean, stuck there for 67 days. They didn't have food for 47 days, they were attacked by Japanese fighters and sharks but in the end, the ones who had faith survived, the others died.

But blind unrealistic faith will not get you anywhere. We have to be prepared and trained for the storm and the obstacles of life. To conquer up the required force of will, we have to go with our eulyrian destiny to take our plane and land it on realistic goals.

Furthermore the problems we perceive depend on our perspective, therefore reading history or traveling will help us put our storm into perspective and make it look what it really is, a bump on the street.

Going after our goals, we will encounter obstacles hitting us like a wall. Those blows will set us back and the only man who make it in life, are the ones who innovate around those wall. For every wall that raises in front of you, there regularly 5 to 7 ways to innovate around it, because where there is a will there is a way. What does it take to get through the wall?

  1. A sledge hammer to strike through the wall. Sometimes it takes raw will power that we need to have in our tool belt.
  2. A shovel to dig under it.
  3. A ladder to climb over it.
  4. Running shoes to run around the wall.
  5. A helicopter to lift you.
  6. Etc.

Similarly we have to innovate through our walls to reach our goals and land our plane. It is the mentality that matters, because most people get hit and they stay hit, because they don't innovate enough. How much time should we invest to knock down the walls? However much it takes.

Coupled with perspective: "It's not as bad as you think." We can take our problems, break them down through linear reductionism in baby steps and start with the first brick.

What might be a first wall? Financial independence? Can it be making $1000 extra a month? Is it around $30 extra a day? You think this is possible? Once you broke down the first brick, the wall loosens up and the 2nd brick is easier to kick off. The 3rd even easier.

But as we see our wall that keep us awake at night, we need to get some perspective on them, because they are normal and we need to remember that the second we go trough our wall, there will be another wall waiting for us.

Knocking down the walls of life is the grind. And the grind is the life.

Therefore we have to beautify our way through the walls like a parkour, because there will never be a time, when we will have made it.

And even if there will be a time, when all our planes landed, we will feel depressed, because we will be 90 years old and we will wish to be young again, like we are right now.

Don't live the life of the masses in quite desperation that is confirmed resignation.

Reach your goals and people will respect you for it. People will look up to you for it. You will respect yourself

Break down the problems from big into small ones. Work on the small goals and next thing you know the wall falls.

But don't race to the end, because the end is the end and there is no reason to get to the end too fast.

Questions

  1. Do you have a realistic plan that can generate faith?

    Yes. I have a plan, based on my skillset, on what I grew up with, based on my strength and on what I got consistently compliments for and on what I can talk every evening if getting the opportunity.

  2. On a 1- 10 scale how strong is your ability to conjure up and generate force of will?

    Depends. Sometimes I feel like my force of will is 3, other times it rises to 6. As you said that force of will comes through faith, I believe that I can set more realistic goals to increase my faith and to conjure up my force of will. But what about thinking Big?

  3. What have you lost perspective in?

    Money.

  1. What books are you going to start reading to put life back into perspective?

    Will Durant - History