Mrs. Smith Musings - Seeing a Goal and Following Through

Recently I read a book series which completely enthralled me. I loved it. I read all 5 books in the span of two weeks (including waiting for the library to have it in).

The series focuses on a woman who can see the future. In it, she sees the death of her galaxy at the hands of a locust-like race of beings who migrate through galaxies and strip it bare of its resources. The thing is, it's 300 years into the future and she has to act now to get people to believe her. So she joins the military and creates a reputation for herself as a leader and precognitive - something solid for people to believe in for later down the road.

She weaves a complex path of small feats, all of which impact the next until her successes grow larger and larger. Every day, she works toward this goal. It drives her. She wakes up each morning, reviews what she needs to do that day to progress her goal, and does it. (Including keeping herself in shape, because she does have to go into combat.)

I wish I had the ability to look forward into my future and say, I need to do X today, because 3 weeks down the road it will impact Y. I need to be able to run quickly, because 2.5 years from now, my toddler will try to go into the road by herself and I have to stop her. I need to have a side-income ready to go and my emergency fund topped off because 4.5 years from now my husband will be laid off, and then I will be laid off and we need to be able to pay our bills. 

While she has the ability to see positive paths, negative paths, and alternate realities that spin from decisions, I don't. I can only say to myself, if you don't stop consuming sugar on a nightly basis (because you deserve it after a hard day), you'll end up 50 lbs heavier and on the verge of Type II Diabetes. It's a lot easier to give into your immediate desires that derail you from your goal, than work through your emotions and stick to your goal.

So how do I act like I know what the future has in store for me? How do I stay true to my goals every day so that 1, 5, or 10 years from now, I can look back and say, "See? Look how far I've come."

For the next month, I'm going to focus on doing 3 things:

1. Achieving Emotional Balance
2. Practicing the habits that are giving me the most grief

3. Visualizing my end goals, roadblocks (how to handle them) and successes (what it will feel like when I overcome the roadblocks)