Are you following a CLOCK ⏰ or the COMPASS 🧭?
The title of this blog post is; are you following the clock or the compass? What does it
even mean? What the difference?
The difference is massive. You see the clock
and the compass represents something. So the clock represents the busyness of the
life. It represents the busyness of the world, the straps, the other people's
agendas, the schedules, the tight routine, and all of that. It basically represents
things outside of you. So if you're following the clock, it basically means
that your life is being controlled by the external life. So you're being driven
by the external life, the pressures of the job, the pressures of this, the
pressures that, the stresses of this etcetera. They are all moving you in this
tunnel of life.
So it's sort of moving you almost against your will. If your
life was a bus, are you a passenger sitting on the bus and the bus is just driving
where it wants to drive, or are you the driver of that bus. So when you're
following the clock, that's when you're a passenger. You're basically just
going with the flow, you're just allowing everybody else's agenda is to control
your life, to control your emotions, to control your feelings. So if somebody
cuts you off in front of you with the car, you get mad at them, you get angry.
If somebody does this, you get upset, if something happens here, you're happy.
So you like that puppet on the strings being controlled by all of these
external things to you.
Now,
the other side is the compass and actually have, I hope I can show you this. I
have my compass here on my table, I want to show you that. It's pretty cool. I
really like it. So this actually sits on my table for a reason to remind me
every day to follow my compass. So what is compass? Well as opposed to the
clock, which is external, the compass is internal. So the compass represents
your definite major purpose in life. What were you put on this planet? What is
your mission? What were you born to do? What were you born to achieve? What are
your dreams? What are your ambitions? What are your burning desires? That's the
compass.
Instead of focusing on the seconds of the day, like, “I need to do
this and I need to put that in, I need to do the Washing and I need to run pick
up the kids.” The little stresses of life that so many people let to completely
overwhelm their life when they're no longer thinking ahead, they’re no longer
planning the future. They’re just, what's going to be the next five minutes,
what's going to be in the next half an hour, they’re just consumed by the
business of life, where they don't even have time to plan the future anymore. They
say that most people spend a lot more time planning their grocery list than
they plan their future five years, 10 years and 15 years if you counted the
amount of hours that they put into it. Whereas the compass, it represents you
focused on the direction of your life.
Instead of just being focused on the
seconds in front of you, you keeping in touch with your long term plan, with
your long term mission, with your agenda, with what you’re supposed to achieve
in this life, the reason why because, I really doubt that any one of us were
placed on this planet to pay the bills. I really doubt that any of us were
placed on this planet, just to go to school, get good grades, get into
university, get good grades, get a job, work for 40 hours a week for 40 years,
you know, and retire after 40 years on 40% of something that wasn't enough to
begin with and then die six months later after retiring. I seriously doubt that
that's the reason why any single person was placed on this planet.
But so many
people accept that. They said, well, that's the life you know, that's like go
to work, come back, and have a beer, watch some telly go to sleep. Get up. Go
to work. You know, get home, watch some telly, have a beer, go to sleep,
weekend comes have more beers go to sleep. Monday back to work like a robot
like a zombie, right? Nothing is changing in their life, no progress, no light
at the end of the tunnel, just a routine. I think it was Emerson who said, a
quiet life of desperation. You know, like a hopeless existence. You know, where
is just yeah, waiting for that death to come and release you from this life,
you know of torture and misery, you know what I mean? That's how a lot of
people live, that's living by the clock.
Now, on the other hand, you sometimes
see these people achieving in life, living the dream, you know, completely
actualizing their potential, you know, and really maximizing what they can do
on this earth from donating millions to charities to build a multi-million companies to changing Religious lives or changing the politics or changing the
sports or whatever, right inventing things, etcetera. Guess what those people
are living by. They're not living by the clock. They living by the compass,
right? They're living by the compass because that arrow in the compass, you
know, the shows the true north, it shows the direction of your life. That's
what it represents.
So for me, I always have it on my table so that every time
I sit down, I put my computer on my table on my desk. I see this in front of me
and it reminds me during the day, keep following the compass instead of
following the clock, right? Keep following the big mission, keep following the
big vision, and keep following your definite major purpose in this life. You
know, keep doing what you were born to do what you were meant to do, and you
decide like, nobody, I can't come and say, Elena, you were born to do this in
your life. And Louie, you are supposed to be doing this. No, it's your
decision. You need to find what is your definite major purpose in life? What is
your mission? What was the reason you were placed on this planet, you know. And
when you find it, you just make it happen.
And it doesn’t mean it happens right
away doesn't mean that your bills go away; it doesn't mean that your job goes away;
it doesn't mean that your kids go away. It doesn't mean that the traffic
outside goes away. It's still there. But now, it's not all that is there. You
know what I mean? It's still there, you still have to pay your bills or you'll
get kicked out of your house, you still have to take your kids to school on
time and pick them up on time, or you'll get some social services, you still
have to drive in bloody traffic etcetera, that doesn't go away. But that now is
just part of the world outside. It's not all of it. You know what I mean?
Because alongside of that is your mission, so you don't get so stressed
anymore. You don't get so panicked and anxious about all of those little things
because you realize that they are just the little things of every day. You
know, your gas bill. coming a little bit higher than expected, or your car
breaking down, or the washing machine on the blink or boil on the blink or
something like that. It no longer makes your life crumble to pieces because you
realize that in the big picture of your life, that boiler breaking down is
pretty meaningless.
In the big picture of your life, if we take your whole life
as a journey, that guy that just cut you off in traffic, and slammed on the
brakes, is really meaningless. It's really just a drop in the ocean. And it's
not worth for you to get angry about or to get upset about or to get emotional
about to let it affect you and stress you out. You know what I mean? Because
it's such a tiny thing compared to your mission. So that's what I wanted to
share with you. I hope this makes sense. I hope go a bit too high and lofty
with my ideas.
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Yours
in success
Gediminas.
In : Personal Development
Tags: purpose and mission