"I know some people say "Keep your eyes on the prize," but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you're going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you've got to keep your eyes focused on the path." ~ Russell Simmons from Do You!
I love that.
And Russell follows it up with "Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort."
Brilliant 21st century application of the classic Bhagavad Gita wisdom: "The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results."
How about you? Once you've frozen your ideal vision in your mind, do you obsess about the results or do you put yourself on "super pilot" (as John Eliot would say in his great book Overachievement (see Notes)) and completely immerse yourself in doing your best moment to moment?!?
Keep you eyes on the path and soon enough you'll be holding the prize!!! :)
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