1-416-561-5780Lecture # 157 emphasizes that if you want to accomplish something, you need first to conceive of what you want to create. It also stresses the importance that what you conceive must be realistic. In this regard, conceiving differs greatly from daydreaming or wishful thinking, for which no connection with a plausible reality is of concern.
Consider the questions below and make notes on your reflections and conclusions, to facilitate your future reference.
♦ How do you approach your desired goals in life? Do you conceive of a feasible outcome of your efforts to achieve your goals and the means to do it?
♦ Do you usually daydream of a perfect situation in which your expectations are magically fulfilled, without any concern for the intermediate steps to attain your goals?
♦ Do you sometimes feel limited in conceiving of your goals because of “mass images”? For example, did you ever refrain from setting personal fulfillment goals and conceiving of their achievement for considering that “wishing for personal fulfillment is a selfish attitude”?
♦ Consider some of your desired accomplishments that were dependent on the collaboration of other people. How did you see this dependency? Did you feel impotent to accomplish your goals, unless you were able to obtain external approval of yourself and of your objectives? How far did you have to go to secure this external approval? How demanding were you of other people’s help to accomplish your goals? Did you ever give up on your goals for reluctance in seeking external cooperation?
♦ Consider a situation in which someone you know had a goal and felt that your help and collaboration were decisive for his/her accomplishment, which then became dependent on you. How did you feel in that situation? Could you feel the forcing currents that others tried to impose on you because of their emotional dependency? Can you imagine that you may have been doing the same to others?