You need to know your ultimate/achievable goals in life, then you need to list them on a piece of paper. It sounds so obvious but that is where it all begins. T

You need to know your ultimate/achievable goals in life, then you need to list them on a piece of paper. It sounds so obvious but that is where it all begins. The order may be important but that’s where the trick is. So, it feels like you keep making bad decisions in life? Well, now that you’re aware of most of your big goals, it’s time for you to learn how to visualize things ahead of time and how to connect these goals all together in a bunch of different orders. Remember, you’re chasing that list of big goals. This alone will help you focus a lot more and will force you to look beyond short term thinking. Life is there to trick you by telling you to do a lot of weird things. Go to college, pay your bills on a monthly basis, get married before you get old, go move to these expensive places for better jobs opportunities, etc. It requires you to re-prioratize things, to think long term, to be able to work backwards towards a global solution. You’re like a Chef working at a 5 star restaurant trying to create a new menu. You have the ability to create amazing receipes with a bunch of unexpected ingredients. The order matters sometimes but most of the time, it’s just in your head. If an unexcpected event happens, try to fall back into that original list of ultimate goals. Re-think on how your new/current situation could lead you to your goals. Who knows? Maybe on day you’ll learn something new. You will want to add a complete new goal to your list. But before doing so, you need to look how it fits with the existing goals... is it breaking certain milestones? Then maybe you need to re-prioritize, remove old goals, etc. Or maybe it’s just a short term thing which gets you excited in the moment... For example, let’s say you want to have a lot of money, no boss, you want to be married, have kids, awesome friends and a big house by the beach. You hate your current job and you have a 30 year mortgage. You’re single looking for someone but you’re not confident enough to go talk to girls because you feel like you’re a below average guy. You just lost your job because the company you believed in originally went out of business. You are forced to sell your house. What does it mean? Chaos? Hmm... pull out your list of ultimate goals and take a look at it. See? Your house was not by the beach, you were a slave to the system so you had lost your freedom and flexibility to accomplish your remaining goals. So that chaos would look more like an amazing opportunity to re-group and to take a turn towards your real goals. Move places, go to another country. Let’s say you live in the US, go to thailand for example by the beach. It’s cheaper.. you’ll be a foreigner over there so you will jump from being below average in your current circle to being exotic. Special, noticeable, etc. I will stop the story here. Bad choices are for those who forget that roads are all interconnected.