Do not be ruled by toys

Staying focused on the objective is a second to second thing. Your mind will wander at any moment and re-prioritize your energy. Oftentimes that re-prioritization feels justified. At work you seek fair treatment. You look for commiseration from peers or validation from bosses. You seek respect, benefit of the doubt, accolades, recognition, awards or prizes. All of those things feel valuable. But they distract from achieving your objective. Do not pull up short of your objective. Do not be ruled by toys.

The Dream Addiction

The dopamine high is one of the biggest traps I fall into. I start to work on my project. I come up with a good idea. Once I feel I am right on the verge of achieving my dreams my body floods with dopamine. I get the best high possible.
I got my fix. So instead of pressing on and achieving my objective I stay in the moment, relishing the feeling of satisfaction without really achieving anything until the high wears off then I go start working on my objective again but pulling up when I get another high. It is the dream addiction.

Impenetrable wall

Doubt assails relentlessly. Brick by brick a wall of unshakable confidence is erected. That wall creates a foundation. That foundation sustains forward motion to achieve an objective. Doubt will always be present and rise against. For every inch ceded take two forward the next time. Achieving your objective is methodical not easy or instantaneous.

Transformation

The ability to reach your objective comes from the most desperate, scared, panic induced time of your existence.

When you feel like you will actually be destroyed the only answer is forward.

Stress will eat you alive. Stay in it.

When you have to let go, breathe, blank out your mind, re charge then go back.

Stay longer than before.

Find it again. Stay longer.

Transform and condition your mind to be someone better than you ever thought possible.

Dead end

I have clung to my plan for 2 years.

I didn’t want to just achieve the objective, I wanted to do it my way. More specifically NOT the way I just laid out in the last post.

My mind is revolted by what I have just discovered.

I always could have achieved my objective but I rejected the way.

I struggle to embrace it still.

Objective mechanism

Objective = $200,000 annual

The objective could be ANYTHING but without a mechanism I cannot achieve it.

I have drive and focus.

I discovered them working to achieve a sales quota at a job I am working.

But the position I am in will not deliver the objective.

Or will it?

I could exceed my quota. Move up in the company, continue to be successful, move up until I run the company. That would achieve the objective.

Questions about my objective

Do I choose my objective?

Do I identify a situation and rise to meet it?

Does my talent, station in life, place and time dictate my objective?

Can I change my objective?

Does my focus on achieving my objective translate across different opportunities?

What is the timeline to achieve my objective?

Opinions are meaningless

All the opinions in the world are meaningless.

The objective is the same whether a million words are spoken or none.

I divorce myself from the emotional morass of opinions and do what I have to do.

No other option

There is no option but reaching the objective.

Doubt, reason, analysis are poison.

Rationale for alternative outcomes destroys the mission.

The objective is absolute and singular.

My Objective

At my last corporate job my salary was $140,000 a year. I had a company car. I had a company credit card. I traveled six days a week. Other than the fixed costs of housing and utilities I had few expenses.
I quit that job to do better, to achieve more.
What is better? What is more?
My objective is to reach annual income of $200,000.