Sentient = conscious. I know, I know. You don't believe you could possibly be unconscious or a robot. But there's no escaping from the truth. If you don't have goals that you've spent time in choosing and that are written down, you are pretty much a robot with a long way to go before you can become sentient. I don't know about you but walking around in a fog without much of an idea as to where I'm going isn't my idea of the way to live my life.
It's fine with me if you would rather wander, but trying to be empowered without being conscious just isn't possible. Sorry but those are the choices - 1) be a robot or 2) have some real goals. I'm not talking about the kind of goals where you hope/wish/think about maybe someday you could.....I'm talking about the kind where you write down a specific thing that you really, really want and put a date when you will get it beside it. Following the date, a real goal has action steps or things you will do to get what you want. You look at those action steps every day and take action every day. On your to-do list for each day, along with taking the clothes to the cleaners, is an action that will get you closer to what you want.
A lot of people are just not happy with all this structure. They say they don't want to be tied down. That they need to "go with the flow." Okay. Fine. So, change the goal and the action steps and the date too if you need or want to. Setting goals is not a rigid commitment that you can never change your mind about. After all you're the person who said this was something you really, really wanted and that you didn't want to just wait and see if it would happen by accident. (It won't) Just remember you decided to be a sentient (conscious) being rather than a robot!
It's fine with me if you would rather wander, but trying to be empowered without being conscious just isn't possible. Sorry but those are the choices - 1) be a robot or 2) have some real goals. I'm not talking about the kind of goals where you hope/wish/think about maybe someday you could.....I'm talking about the kind where you write down a specific thing that you really, really want and put a date when you will get it beside it. Following the date, a real goal has action steps or things you will do to get what you want. You look at those action steps every day and take action every day. On your to-do list for each day, along with taking the clothes to the cleaners, is an action that will get you closer to what you want.
A lot of people are just not happy with all this structure. They say they don't want to be tied down. That they need to "go with the flow." Okay. Fine. So, change the goal and the action steps and the date too if you need or want to. Setting goals is not a rigid commitment that you can never change your mind about. After all you're the person who said this was something you really, really wanted and that you didn't want to just wait and see if it would happen by accident. (It won't) Just remember you decided to be a sentient (conscious) being rather than a robot!
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