How to Commit to a Goal ...⛰️💪🥇

Published: Fri, 06/07/24

Updated: Fri, 06/07/24

Don't Just Set Goals, Hunt Them.

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If I were to ever make my goals known to most people, they would laugh, and I’m not talking about people who don’t know me. The words delusional and impossible would be used to describe what I want to achieve for myself, and I wouldn’t be surprised. Because most people don’t really understand the purpose of setting goals. I get butterflies in my stomach when I think about my aspirations, and I appreciate their power. As counterintuitive as it may seem, I’m on the right track; I can feel it.

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What are your goals like Gentle Reader?
If you were anything like me starting out, your goals were glorified to-do lists. That’s because we viewed goals as a checklist of things to attain, not a method of becoming. The truth is most of us play too small with our goals anyway. We set modest little targets that don’t really challenge us or demand much of us. Then, we wonder why we feel so stagnant and unfulfilled.

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Every great story begins with a single line—a line that draws you in and refuses to let go. Think of "It was a pleasure to burn." - Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury or "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel." - Neuromancer by William Gibson. Now, it's your turn to captivate us with your opening sentence!

Challenge Details: Craft a single, unforgettable first line for a speculative fiction story. Your line could open the gates to a dystopian future, a clash among starships, the discovery of a parallel world, or any imaginative scenario you can dream up!

How to Participate:

Submit Your First Line: DM me on Instagram with your best first line. Keep it sharp, keep it intriguing.
Include a Title: Give your prospective story a title that complements your first line (titles are not judged but add to the fun and creativity).

Judging Criteria:

Impact: Does the line make us want to read more?
Originality: How unique and creative is the line?
Tone and Atmosphere: Does the line set a clear tone or evoke a specific atmosphere right away?

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Submission Deadline

Get ready to hook us with your words and potentially see your first line kickstart a beloved new story in the minds of our readers! Be sure to get your submissions in by 30th June 2024.

But here’s the real deal - goals worthy of our greatness are supposed to scare the shit out of us. I’m talking about a chilblain of anxiety tingling around your extremities at the sheer audacity of it all. If your current objective doesn’t have most people giving you severe side-eye or ‘kiss dem teeth’ as we say in Jamaica, then you’re selling yourself short, period.

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Because real, life-altering goals aren’t just about ticking some box. They’re a promissory note to become someone radically different from who you are now. To level up into a whole new echelon of personal power and capability that your current self can barely even conceive of.

That’s where the magic happens - in your willingness to commit to that mythic-level transformation. To not just set a goal, but to fully accept and lean into the chaos, discomfort, and creative destruction that journey of growth will inevitably demand.

But total commitment like that requires adherence to 3 key ingredients:

Radical Clarity - A vision of your objective so vivid, so viscerally tangible, that it feels more real than this present reality. A sneak peek into the new expansive world that awaits you.
Whole-Soul Acceptance - Not just tolerance but enthusiastic welcoming of any internal and external changes required. A sacred vow to lean all the way into the fires of self-reinvention.
Unwavering Devotion - An unshakeable, every-single-day commitment to realizing this in totality. A practice of steadfastly embodying your future achieved state through your habits, mindset and energy.

Because here’s the reality - it’s that total alignment with those three pillars that determine whether your most significant ambitions ignite into a reality-quaking phenomenon...or just fizzle out as unmanifested daydreams.

So get clear on a goal that speaks to your soul. Not just an incremental improvement but the full mythic-level actualization you were put on this earth to inhabit. Meditate on it until you can feel its gravity reshaping your orbit.

Then decide, for real.

Can you embody your future success story with such totality that it becomes an undeniable reality?

Can you keep fanning those flames until they roar so intensely that abandoning this path would be cosmic treason against your highest self?

Do that, and I promise the universe will reward you. So lock it in, family. Decide you are ready to commit, then stand resolute in the fires of your own self-creation and become who you were encoded to be.

That’s how we make our wildest ambitions happen, by staying utterly committed to the visions that terrify us most.

So get ready to feel the fear and do it anyway.

Peace, love and power.

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