Dreams, Goals, and Persistence

One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree.

'Which road do I take?' she asked.

'Where do you want to go?' was his response.

'I don't know,' Alice answered.

'Then,' said the cat, 'it doesn't matter.Take any'

Excerpt from Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

 This small conversation tells us a great principle for success. Ironically most of us  face the same dilemma in our personal and professional lives. Our thinking is just like Alice. We are not clear where we want to go.

We need to know where we want to go, ask directions from a knowledgeable person, make sure we are on the right path and put in our effort to move ahead overcoming all the hurdles and challenges.

 If I am not clear of my destination then I must first identify my destination. This will require some effort and probing and we should ask question  "Where does this road lead?", "Do I like the where this road will lead me to?"

Life is a journey. We have to identify our destination which is generally linked to our dreams. Within our dreams and aspirations, we find our opportunities.( Sue Ebaugh )
Dreams do not vanish, so long as people do not abandon them.

Having identified our dreams, we must look for a path which has the potential to make our dreams become reality.
Now just put dates against the dreams, plan small small steps to be performed. In simple words, this is called setting long term, medium and short goals and start working persistently. Give all that we have with strong belief and faith in ourselves and in god. This is bound to get us results.

Here are some quotes which essentially are the key to success
 Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. -- Jeremy Kitson
 If what you are doing is worth doing, hang in there until it is done -- Nido Qubein
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer. Albert Einstein

A Simple yet a Great Story

A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his wife open a package.

What food might this contain? The mouse wondered - - - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.

Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning: There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house! '

The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said, 'Mr.Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no consequence to me. I cannot be bothered by it. '

The mouse turned to the pig and told him, ' There is a mousetrap in the house! 'There is a mousetrap in the house! '

The pig sympathized, but said, I am so very sorry, Mr.Mouse, but there is nothing I can do about it but pray.Be assured you are in my prayers. '

The mouse turned to the cow and said ' There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house! '

The cow said, ' Wow, Mr. Mouse. I ' m sorry for you, but it ' s no skin off my nose. '

So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the farmer ' s mousetrap . . . alone.

That very night a sound was heard throughout the house -- like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey.

The farmer ' s wife rushed to see what was caught. In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the trap had caught.

The snake bit the farmer ' s wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital, and she returned home with a fever.

Everyone knows you treat a fever with fresh chicken soup, so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main ingredient.

But his wife ' s sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit with her around the clock.

To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig.

The farmer ' s wife did not get well; she died.

So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered to provide enough meat for all of them.

The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall with great sadness.

So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it doesn' t concern you,

Remember ---- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk.

We are all involved in this journey called life.

We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to encourage one another.

REMEMBER. . . . . . EACH OF US IS A VITAL THREAD IN ANOTHER PERSON' TAPESTRY; OUR LIVES ARE WOVEN TOGETHER FOR A REASON.

( Author unknown but since this gives us a wonderful lesson, I thought of posting it for some of us to benefit )