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How do you plan to get what you want?

I spent a night in Brooklyn recently, and while looking around the neighborhood from my friend's Williamsburg rooftop I was overtaken by several sensations:
1. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
2. I've been slacking
3. I need to live here

Even though my time there was less than 30 hours, the experience caused a shift in my mentality, a better understanding of what I want out of life and how I need to do it.

Now I just need to do it.

What steps are you taking to accomplish your lifetime goals?

(@johncarl of www.DuckDuckCollective.com pictured below)

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in situations like that, where a major (and maybe somewhat scary) change is needed, i often cannot grasp the idea of it actually happening, as though it is just too big for me. but i have had experiences like yours and i know that going through with it can be absolutely amazing and totally worthwhile. so i break it down into little steps, take it one day and one task at a time, and do what i can, to make it happen. i moved from north america to south america that way. a daunting thing at the time, but now, i just, you know, live there. :D

I think first you need to have a concrete vision on what your goals are. I don't think I have had a revelation as you, but maybe. I went to South by Southwest this year for the first time (working as a volunteer to get a free pass) and it just changed my life. I knew I wanted to be like the people there, at the forefronts of innovation and creativity. It was a wonderful experience, but I feel I need more focus to develop my goals to know where I want to go.

I believe that it is dangerous to want things and I also think that I probably don't deserve anything more than I already have, because wanting something else just shows how little I appreciate what I have.
BUT: Every now and then, this mentality goes into a dark corner of my mind and I actually really want something. And when I do, then here's how I get it:
- Plan as little as possible (and as much as necessary). Never get lost in thinking about doing something.
- Get off my a*s. I'm a lazy f****r, so that is the most important part.
- Figure out and start with the first step. Never get ahead of myself.
- Make that step a small one, to ensure that I can actually do it.
- Stay on course: just because I made the first step an easy one doesn't mean that I will easily reach my goal.
- Never, ever give up on something I truly want.

I'd like to think of life as a river current that pushes you down the pathway of life. I don't plan on fighting the current; I just plan to ride it to see where life takes me.

Team SP

I'm involving myself in things that inspire me, no matter how much they pay or if they pay at all. I think it's working.

My plan is listed below

Williamsburg is the hipster capital of New York.

Yes, move to Brooklyn! There is so much happening here that you can't help but get your life in gear and have a lot of fun.

"1. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
2. I've been slacking
3. I need to live here"

This perfectly describes the way I feel when I see costal places. Right now, I'm trying to figure out just what my goals really are.

New York is OK if you like that. And @flashbandings video was really fabulous!

But.. meh ... I like sandy beaches and weather that I can live with all year around.
I have already reached that goal and with retirement I can travel.
I will take California living any day.

I will focus on my determination, I hope. I often dream of things that are not in my grasp. My surroundings do make me happy and I am very grateful, but like you, I desire greatness and a point of view that truly makes life heavenly.

I am hoping education will help me get where I need to go Literally and Figuratively.I am enrolled in College. I too have felt not lazy but apathetic and safe. But have made a decision to do the things I need/want to do.

Don't step; act on your desire.

1) Surround myself with creative, beautiful souls=check 2)Follow my instincts 3)Be fearless 4)Stay true to myself 5) Pure adrenalized drive

Love New York - of all the cities in the world where I might actually live its the top of the list

a 100 times better than it was in the 70s and 80s -
so friendly now, amazing -

video of my trip there in March... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK4LRTqya0Q

and this view from my ex girlfriend's friend's Brooklyn apartment balcony I also took then...

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j251/flash_banding/Brooklynview.jpg

Oh and this looking backwards from the open top bus...

http://i82.photobucket.com/albums/j251/flash_banding/lifeechoingart.jpg

I've felt the call of New York too, and the honing in it brought to my life goals. After only moments stepping off a bus full of students on my first visit, I knew, not just that I wanted to live there, but that I would some day. It is one of the top things I want. New York and I are star-crossed lovers for the time being.

Haunting me is the idea that I'll become unhappy anywhere I am, whatever I'm doing, if I don't learn to create my own happiness and be content whatever my setting. And that's what I really want, to feel alive and at home ("I long, as does every human being..." Maya Angelou). New York made me feel that way, full and thrilled, and for that I do resent it, as an external, evasive satisfaction, and one that keeps calling.

If what I really want is to feel alive and at home, the steps I'm taking are to get physical ailments and psychological hangups (reasonably, so much as they do limit me from equilibrium) out of my way so that I can move powerfully towards that freedom.

What are the steps you're taking?

I'm taking steps to begin a business as a life coach to assist parents going through divorce. I've realized....well just yesterday...that I'm not such a great planner, but I'm awesome at improvisation. That led me to see that most of the time, I write down a goal, make a plan, ignore the plan and somehow reach the goal anyway!

I guess mainly, I figure out the what and let God take care of the how :-)

I am exercising for several reasons 1) stress management 2) get in better shape 3) possibly become more attractive 4) confidence 5) in case something happens I can better take care of myself 6) so I can enjoy food without going "gee this is making me fat"

Neat insight. I have been slacking as well (for years, really), but I'm at least attending college and doing well at my place of employment. Most recently I've begun drastically improving my home environment. Painting rooms, cleaning out cupboards, moving decorations around, and most importantly going through the dreaded pile of clutter in the garage and anywhere else it's found a place to lurk. Each time I drop off a carload of donations, something amazing happens to me, so I'm going to keep doing it until the excess is GONE. <3

marceloasherQ

How do you plan to get what you want?

maura

bridge47

raphalguul

JeffreyCoolado

I'd like to think of life as a river current that pushes you down the pathway of life. I don't plan on fighting the current; I just plan to ride it to see where life takes me.

kalivia

I'm involving myself in things that inspire me, no matter how much they pay or if they pay at all. I think it's working.

firespun

My plan is listed below

heartilation

Williamsburg is the hipster capital of New York.

Playdough

Yes, move to Brooklyn! There is so much happening here that you can't help but get your life in gear and have a lot of fun.

HasseMarie

"1. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
2. I've been slacking
3. I need to live here"

This perfectly describes the way I feel when I see costal places. Right now, I'm trying to figure out just what my goals really are.

stinkyhenry

New York is OK if you like that. And @flashbandings video was really fabulous!

But.. meh ... I like sandy beaches and weather that I can live with all year around.
I have already reached that goal and with retirement I can travel.
I will take California living any day.

StephyElle

I will focus on my determination, I hope. I often dream of things that are not in my grasp. My surroundings do make me happy and I am very grateful, but like you, I desire greatness and a point of view that truly makes life heavenly.

faeyth

I am hoping education will help me get where I need to go Literally and Figuratively.I am enrolled in College. I too have felt not lazy but apathetic and safe. But have made a decision to do the things I need/want to do.

BobFoolery

Don't step; act on your desire.

PollyVinyl

1) Surround myself with creative, beautiful souls=check 2)Follow my instincts 3)Be fearless 4)Stay true to myself 5) Pure adrenalized drive

flashbanding

Packetslip

Starrlee64

Jear77

I am exercising for several reasons 1) stress management 2) get in better shape 3) possibly become more attractive 4) confidence 5) in case something happens I can better take care of myself 6) so I can enjoy food without going "gee this is making me fat"

dawnfairy27

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I'd like to think of life as a river current that pushes you down the pathway of life. I don't plan on fighting the current; I just plan to ride it to see where life takes me.

I'm involving myself in things that inspire me, no matter how much they pay or if they pay at all. I think it's working.

My plan is listed below

Williamsburg is the hipster capital of New York.

Yes, move to Brooklyn! There is so much happening here that you can't help but get your life in gear and have a lot of fun.

"1. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen 2. I've been slacking 3. I need to live here"This perfectly describes the way I feel when I see costal places. Right now, I'm trying to figure out just what my goals really are.

New York is OK if you like that. And @flashbandings video was really fabulous!But.. meh ... I like sandy beaches and weather that I can live with all year around.I have already reached that goal and with retirement I can travel.I will take California living any day.

I will focus on my determination, I hope. I often dream of things that are not in my grasp. My surroundings do make me happy and I am very grateful, but like you, I desire greatness and a point of view that truly makes life heavenly.

I am hoping education will help me get where I need to go Literally and Figuratively.I am enrolled in College. I too have felt not lazy but apathetic and safe. But have made a decision to do the things I need/want to do.

Don't step; act on your desire.

1) Surround myself with creative, beautiful souls=check 2)Follow my instincts 3)Be fearless 4)Stay true to myself 5) Pure adrenalized drive

I am exercising for several reasons 1) stress management 2) get in better shape 3) possibly become more attractive 4) confidence 5) in case something happens I can better take care of myself 6) so I can enjoy food without going "gee this is making me fat"

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"1. This is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen
2. I've been slacking
3. I need to live here"

This perfectly describes the way I feel when I see costal places. Right now, I'm trying to figure out just what my goals really are.

New York is OK if you like that. And @flashbandings video was really fabulous!

But.. meh ... I like sandy beaches and weather that I can live with all year around.
I have already reached that goal and with retirement I can travel.
I will take California living any day.