According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, self-actualization represents the highest-order motivations. Those which drive us to realize our true potential and achieve our “ideal self.” Self Actualization requires vision. The vision requires repeated action to become a reality. Through the combination of vision and action, there are endless possibilities.
If you are looking to make something great of yourself, you need to set priorities and goals which will set you up for a better and bigger future. Alexander the Great was the first person called The Great because he envisioned a unified Greece and he did it. He was the first to actively pursue a unified world. What’s your unified world vision?
Life is exactly what you make out of it. You can write your own story. We all are. The question is are you willing to go and make it. Your potential is limitless. It’s action that takes effort.
If you want your goals and dreams to come to life, you must first know what your goals are, write them down and ask friends and family to help hold you accountable. Setting goals for the long term and short term is going to be one thing that makes your life better and easier because you are going to have something to strive for and known targets you are aiming at.
Never give up and pursue goals worth pursuing. They are what get you out of bed in the morning. Be prepared to work hard at your goals, nothing worth doing is ever achieved easily.
Genghis Khan once conquered Mongolia, China, Russia, Korea and Syria. He was in control. You need to recognize that you are the one that is in control of your life. When there is something that you really want to have, you should pursue it with ferocity. Nothing is scarier than a person motivated to do something with a single pursuited purpose.
I recommend the exercise of illustrating what you want and then creating the exact plan that needs to be executed to get there. Mahatma Gandhi wanted India to be independent from the oppression of their British colonialists. He understood in order to create a movement, he’d need to do so through unorthodox means that created sympathy to their struggle. By using non-violent means of protest and flexing the new medium of television, he could get the attention necessary to get the world behind his movement. He was in control and had a mapped out plan. You should always know that you are going to be in control of a situation. When you are not happy with something that you are doing you should go out there and make your life just how you want it to be.
Do not be afraid of your goals, of making them bigger and doing what you want to do in life. Make goals that are exciting, get you eager to take action and then go do the damn thing!. There is nothing out there that should stop.
From there, your attitude is your latitude. Stay positive, work through the hardships, create a plan and stick to it until you need to pivot. Visualize, take action and follow through. The rest will handle itself.
How To Be A Grown Man 