A Fine Balance
“If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
- Yogi Berra
I am honored to have been invited to contribute a post to a blog that I follow. The League of Champions is a wonderful blog and well worth your time to explore. In their blog, Kevin and Leanna help people reach their optimum creativity through finding inner peace and loving themselves. Leanna and I have been discussing trying to live in the moment and at the same time keep one's goals in mind.There is a fine balance between going with the flow and directing your own life. There is a certain peace in acceptance of what is, but there is empowerment in knowing what you want and being willing to go after it. And then there is the all important need to Pay Attention and Be Present in the moment.But does being present preclude goal-setting and focusing on what one wants in the future? I don’t think so. I think that we can have both, but I believe we have to practice a fine balancing act.In my 7 Tools, I discuss Heart-Centered Goal Setting. And I believe that this is one of the keys to the balancing act. In order to really focus on true goals, you have to find out the deepest WHY of the goal, the emotion behind it. Work to discover WHY you want that particular goal, journal about it, question it. When you understand the deeper emotion of why your want that particular goal, the emotional need behind it, then you have hit the WHY. You can FEEL the why in heart-centered goal setting. And in order to feel it, you have to be paying attention and be present to the moment. That ability to stay present actually helps to define a direction for the future. But indeed, it is a fine balancing act.Zig Ziglar is one of the greats - an iconic motivational speaker. In the clip below, Ziglar talks about setting goals.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ae-VJ_lauCw] I hope you enjoy listening to Zig Ziglar. I always find him inspirational. I’d love to hear about how you balance staying present and setting goals for your future.And as always thank you for taking the time to visit, I appreciate it.