MISSIONS

Chapter 1: VISION

¹It’s rare for blessings to come into our lives unless we FIRST decide definitely that we want them in our lives, except by fluke. ²So, go right ahead, now, and DECIDE EXACTLY WHAT YOU WANT for yourself and your life! ³How can you live your dreams if you don’t even know what they are? ⁴So invest time MEDITATING on what you WANT, and then draw some conclusions by deliberately DETERMINING what your dreams REALLY ARE! ⁵The eagerness with which you go about this TASK will indicate to yourself and the world just how BADLY you want to find true soul satisfaction in this life, and best prepare for the next.

⁶Decide the following things, which make up your Chosen Life: ⁷Who do you want to BECOME? What kind of PERSONALITY and CHARACTER do you want to develop? ⁸What SKILLS do you want to learn? And what ADVANTAGES will those skills privilege you to? ⁹What kind of POSSESSIONS do you want to own? What kind of home, car, wardrobe, phone, etc.? ¹⁰Which PEOPLE, and what kind of RELATIONSHIPS do you want with them to make up your daily life? Who do you want introductions with? ¹¹Which LOCATIONS do you want to visit? And what EVENTS do you want to attend? ¹²What kind of OPPORTUNITIES do you want? And for what reason? ¹³What kind of HEALTH and FITNESS do you want, and perhaps require in this life? ¹⁴What kind of RECOGNITION for what ACHIEVEMENTS do you want to receive? And in which arena? ¹⁵What IMPACT do you want to have on others? And what LEGACY do you want to leave behind?

¹⁶Get clear on all these things! ¹⁷Use your imagination and start thinking about these questions throughout your days, and mulling them over, so you can make some DECISIONS that may very well alter the entire course and direction of your future life for the better, happier living. ¹⁸Forget the limits, or how you will achieve all this. ¹⁹Put no limitations on your desires or consider them impossible. ²⁰Let your imagination run wild, then START WRITING THEM DOWN, one by one, and even DESCRIBING them in great detail.

²¹Do this for YOU! Decide what YOU want for YOU! ²²AND WRITE IT DOWN! DON’T FORGET THAT – WRITE THE THINGS YOU WANT DOWN ON A LIST! ²³However, be discouraged from desiring or craving things just because of the perception it will give you in others eyes. ²⁴That’s a fallacious life, to attempt to build our Self-Worth solely on how society views us, by perhaps seeking after others’ jealousy and envy which does no one any service at all.

Chapter 2: COST

¹In a civilized society, it takes money to live our Chosen Life. ²We need to serve and be served, and money is often the MEDIUM for how we mediate that exchange of VALUE. ³So your next step, after you’ve determined precisely and definitely what you want, is to attach A TOTAL SUM or a recurring MONTHLY AMOUNT to your desired lifestyle, a DEFINITE NUMBER.

⁴So go right ahead and calculate HOW MUCH you would need to make your dreams a reality in this economic world. ⁵Go through your LIST of desires from the last chapter, and start RESEARCHING the prices and costs of those goods and services that would make your Chosen Life a reality. ⁶Add up every ITEM that COSTS MONEY on your list, so that you’ll KNOW EXACTLY HOW MUCH you’ll need to live your dreams. ⁷Determine and attach either a total sum OR a recurring monthly amount that would financially support your Chosen life.

⁸Now keep THIS SUM ever and always in the FOREFRONT of your mind. ⁹Write it down and put it where you’ll SEE IT OFTEN. ⁹That AMOUNT is now your MISSION in life for the time being! ¹⁰Now you know what YOU demand of this world to live your Chosen Life. ¹¹But the world ALSO demands something of you now too.

Chapter 3: VALUE

¹There is no such thing as something for nothing, and those who try to get without giving end up with consequences on their hands. ²No, you must render an EQUIVALENT SERVICE in return for the SUM you are seeking to manifest your Chosen Life! ³You must DELIVER BENEFITS to your fellow man that are COMMENSURATE with the amount your Chosen Life demands!

⁴You do this by discovering what your GIFTS are, the things you excel at and maybe others even admire you for. ⁵You love to engage in these ACTIVITIES, don’t you? ⁶So why not INVEST your time in DEVELOPING those gifts, then TRANSLATING them into PRODUCTS and SERVICES that benefit others? ⁷That’s the REAL WAY, in Nature, to “make money” or “get rich”.

⁸It can take time to discover your gifts, especially in youth, so give yourself time. ⁹But start identifying what you’re GOOD AT, and what you LOVE MOST. ¹⁰Then start asking yourself how you can do THAT THING in a way that ENRICHES others lives, so you may then RIGHTFULLY ask money in return for it.

¹¹Next, comes preparation, which involves both study and practice. ¹²Your gift, your CRAFT, must be MASTERED – by studying what the experts have to teach, observation of those who have received praise and earned merit in the field, and through relentless applied practice and a honing of the skill – so that you can render services at their highest level and thus entitle you to compensation RELATIVE to it. ¹³You must bring your SKILL LEVEL in delivering your services level with the SUM you desire. ¹⁴Then you are rightfully ready and entitled to live your Chosen Life, because you’ve EARNED it!

¹⁵Once you have established your craft, it is not merely enough to dream about it. Then do nothing. That will not do! ¹⁶Procrastination MUST be conquered, and action MUST be taken!

Chapter 4: ACTION

¹Dreams don’t take manifestation in reality without taking INITIATIVE and ACTION. ²If the work doesn’t get done, why should there be an outcome or reward? ³No, since we are compensated FOR our services, we must RENDER THEM! ⁴Only then does this ENTITLE us to compensation, relative to the BENEFITS they incurred on others as a result of our actions.

⁵As we mentioned, there are two steps to delivering service: PREPARATION and DELIVERY. ⁶We must be motivated to study and practice, and remain sustained in that activity, until we are skilled enough to be of great USE to Society. ⁷And we have also already said this is easy to do when we are: good at what we do, and we love engaging in it. ⁸Procrastination is easily conquered when this pair exists. ⁹So you must find the thing! Then commit to it!

¹⁰But to help sustain you through the tough spots, be encouraged to write down all the REASONS WHY you want to live your dreams. ¹¹Then they can be called to mind as reminders of what you’re really seeking to accomplish. ¹²What we want is LIVED EXPERIENCES we have anticipated, don’t we? ¹³Ones that lead to making memories, and growing, and finding SOUL SATISFACTION. ¹⁴So write those emotional cravings down, thinking about how INCREDIBLE it will be when those conditions are finally brought into your life. ¹⁵Bringing this to mind is what SUSTAINS us through the trials and tribulations that are sure to come our way.

¹⁶Really what you must do is cultivate a BURNING DESIRE TO LIVE YOUR CHOSEN LIFE! ¹⁷How do you do that? You must first know exactly what it is, then IMAGINE, REHEARSE and ENACT it out in your imagination OFTEN. ¹⁸You VISUALIZE in your imagination and then EXPERIENCE various scenes of what it will be like. ¹⁹You constantly think about how AMAZING it’s going to be. ²⁰You imagine what it’s going to FEEL LIKE when you realize your mission!

²¹Then the business becomes about bringing a PRODUCT or SERVICE to MARKET using your SKILLS to create and deliver it. ²²And to do that, ACTION must be taken, the right, effective action. ²³That action is simply to CREATE and RELEASE the best item you can currently produce. ²⁴This sometimes requires RESEARCH and EXPERIMENTATION. ²⁵Then watch how the market RESPONDS to it, so you’ll know how to ADVANCE, PIVOT or ABANDON in learning to perfect the goods or services, molding them around the consumer’s desires and needs, indicated by their responses and behavior. That comes next.

²⁶But first, what we need to do is TRY THINGS! ²⁷We need possible IDEAS to test that would possibly make profitable products or services. ²⁸All goods and services start IN THE FORM OF AN IDEA! Remember that! ²⁹How do we come up with these? We look for a PROBLEM we ourselves have (as sometimes us solving our own problem attracts interested people who have the same one) or problems others have that have been observed or researched, then we find the SOLUTION to them, and finally offer that to the public as a trade. ³⁰Or the other way is to provide a vehicle to the client that empowers them to live a desired, satisfying experience. ³¹These can often coincide. ³²This is what we bring to market and offer to the public.

Chapter 5: ADAPTATION

¹We finally achieve our aims and arrive at our Chosen Life through and by the LIVED PROCESS of TRYING, FAILING, then LEARNING from those failures for the NEXT ATTEMPTS, that then, eventually, lead us to the coveted goal of SUCCESS! Hallelujah!

²You must understand that there is a BRIDGE to realizing any desired result, or transforming a negative circumstance into a positive one. ³That’s to LEARN A SKILL. ⁴It is the USE of that skill that makes you a USEFUL ASSET to others and is therefore VALUABLE to you. ⁵So determine what RESULTS you want – so you can identify the SKILL you need to learn first – and then go out and LEARN IT! ⁶As you move forward with the work, start pinpointing the OUTCOME SKILLS you’ll need, and work getting TRAINED on them into your plan. ⁷These skills can be used for personal benefit or to produce money or taught in exchange for money, which makes them invaluable.

⁸In this Cycle of trying and failing, after we have promoted a product or service to the public and they have responded to it, we look at the REACTION to both: the OFFER and the PRODUCT. ⁹We listen to the consumer FEEDBACK and we observe their BEHAVIOR with our goods or services. ¹⁰This is what empowers us to know what to change or improve. ¹¹This also empowers us to adapt to how our clients are RESPONDING to our offer and our products or services. ¹²This is priceless information, for innovation, marketing and sales!

¹³Here’s how it works: Solving problems and promoting the solutions are much alike. ¹⁴They’re both processes of TRIAL and ERROR, unless we have wise counsel, which already makes us ourselves wise. ¹⁵The same process that goes into solving the problem is often the same one used in marketing it. ¹⁶We have to understand the story, the narrative behind the service and its origin. ¹⁷This not only helps us speak to the customer and convince them, but they feel understood by us (because we do understand them!), which is what moves sales.

¹⁸This CYCLE must be followed UNTIL it launches an enterprise or SYSTEM that successfully and predictably generates enough revenue to support your Chosen Life, where you can replace yourself with others working inside it instead. ¹⁹But you must not give up. ²⁰You must keep going, even in the most trying of times, until success is, finally, achieved.

Chapter 6: PERSEVERANCE

¹In pursuing our dreams, and even just in living life, it is inevitable that we will face sometimes seemingly unbearable disappointments and discouragements and seemingly insurmountable obstacles. ²But what is important is how we DEAL with them. ³We must be able to ENDURE life’s adversities and reverses with grace, then PICK OURSELVES BACK UP and CARRY ON with the work of manifesting our Chosen Life, marching on, finally, TO SUCCESS. ⁴We must NOT let our trials and tribulations stop us and make us quit. ⁵WE MUST CARRY ON! ⁶But what makes us want to quit? What makes us want to give up? ⁸And how do we deal with these pests?

⁸First, there is CRITICISM! ⁹If you step out from the ranks and demand life pay off on your terms, the envious will try to discourage and stop you by RIDICULING and HUMILIATING you. ¹⁰People will say all manners of unkind things about you, and they will say many untrue things about you. ¹¹You must develop a thick skin to these assaults. ¹²And how you do that is you STOP VALUING the opinions of people who are ignorant. ¹³You just stop caring, and even taking an interest, where it doesn’t interfere with soliciting the COOPERATION of others.

¹⁴Second, there is FAILURE! ¹⁵We already talked on this. ¹⁶But you ARE going to encounter failure as you learn to bring your dreams into reality. ¹⁷Sometimes the best way of dealing with it is to, depending on the severity of the blow, take some time to sulk and do and think nothing. ¹⁸The deflated feelings that come with an approach or venture failing and not working out will soon pass and be REPLACED with new inspiration, and new hopes and ideas. ¹⁹If one plan fails, build another. If it, too, fails, build yet another, and another – until, at long last, success!

²⁰Third, there is REJECTION! ²¹In doing this work, you ARE going to have people say “No” to you, and you ARE going to have people want NOTHING to do with you. ²²You must just learn to ACCEPT THIS. ²³How? Place your priorities on the people who DO VALUE YOU! Not on the ones who don’t esteem you. ²⁴Respect them, yes. But don’t make your happiness dependent on their love or approval. ²⁵Instead, wait for those who will truly love, value and respect you to come into your life if they’re not yet present. ²⁶They will come.

²⁷Fourth, there is BETRAYAL! In life, you’re bound to have loved ones betray your trust and leave you blindsided. ²⁸This is probably the MOST PAINFUL thing to experience. ²⁹And there is no cure for it, other than to let time HEAL THE WOUNDS and process it to RELEASE the bitterness. ³⁰But what can be learned from it is how to SCREEN people: what red-flags to look for in the future, and how to respond to them next time around. ³¹This equips us to protect our ongoing, ever unfolding peace and joy.

³²Fifth, there is LOSS! ³³The previous one may be most painful, but this one is most DIFFICULT to suffer and endure. ³⁴Losing something or someone we cherish or invested in, knowing it’s probably not or never coming back to us HURTS. ³⁵And the pain lingers and torments. ³⁶The only tonic for sorrow is tears. ³⁷Mourning is the only constructive remedy to loss. ³⁸Rage and revenge only bring more destruction, damage and chaos.

Chapter 7: USE

¹The chapters leading up to here have been sequential. ²But the next two chapters are realities that are transpiring ALL the time, when we are alone and when we are with people. ³They AREN’T principles in this formula, but ongoing CONDITIONS that are present throughout the strategy and should therefore be given great consideration.

⁴We shape the unfoldment by our REACTIONS to our own thoughts and the actions of others. ⁵We think, and we act. ⁶Another reacts to that. ⁷Then we think and react to to their reaction. ⁸So on, and vice versa. ⁹But what happens when we react unconsciously, uncontrollably and abruptly in that string of reactions, which is all there is to an INTERACTION? ¹⁰We lose POWER and INFLUENCE over them, giving away our control to the other parties involved. ¹¹But if we remain in control of OURSELVES and our RESPONSES, our power in confrontation and conflict, and also in moments of peace and harmony, becomes endless! ¹²Others begin to surrender to OUR lead instead and abide by our social cues.

¹³How this is achieved is by balancing the head on top of the spine throughout every act carried out in the unfoldment. ¹⁴This results in the voice being RESONANT and PROJECTED. ¹⁵And it results in the body movements and stances, along with eye focus, being deliberately and CONSCIOUSLY CONTROLLED moment to moment. ¹⁶That is how power is COMMUNICATED from one mind to another in the physical, and power is ESSENTIAL to realize your dreams, especially if they’re on the larger or less modest scale.

¹⁷The WAY HOW you do all this is you learn and apply FM Alexander’s Technique. ¹⁸It is claimed to be the BEST DECISION a person can make, BECAUSE it innately affects ALL their OTHER decisions.

¹⁹TAKE ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE LESSONS!

Chapter 8: PEOPLE

¹Everyone must be SCREENED for who you can trust! ²Your role as a good human being is to treat everyone you meet with dignity and respect. ³You give them your attention and your willingness to do them favors. ⁴BUT they MUST reciprocate. ⁵Your attention and your pull are PRIVILEGES, they are your CURRENCY. ⁶If someone is going to try to use you or treat you with disrespect, you WITHDRAW those privileges from them! ⁷Now they must make it up TO YOU IF they want those privileges back, and if you concede.

⁸It’s all about GOODWILL. ⁹You extend that to others and expect it back. ¹⁰But when you don’t get it, you learn NOT to wish ill will, and you give warnings first, but then if they’re not considered, you put DISTANCE between you and them. ¹¹You set boundaries, and you enforce them. ¹²And in cases of gross abuse and disrespect, you CUT such people out of your life completely and DENY them ACCESS to you and your life.

¹³But how do we get into these situations in the first place? ¹⁴Often, it’s through family and circumstance. But many other times, it’s through our own INITIATIVE. ¹⁵If we want an introduction to someone, most times the best way is to give it to ourselves. ¹⁶But how do we do that? We learn how to engage ANYONE in conversation, under ANY circumstance. ¹⁷This is done by leading our conversations so they accomplish THIS one thing: share who you are and what your life is all about with them (and be interesting, because you are), and encourage them to share who they are and what their life is all about with you. ¹⁸That’s it. THAT IS THE SECRET TO PEOPLE.

¹⁹Also, navigating allies and enemies, admirers and haters: some people WILL ROOT for you to realize your dreams, while others will WAIT on your DOWNFALL. ²⁰This doesn’t need to be taken personally. ²¹Jealousy and envy are wretched emotions, and the people who let themselves become slaves to them live wretched lives. ²²So pay them no mind. Instead, pay your allies and admirers your attention and time. ²³Serve them and their interests.

Chapter 9: PATIENCE

¹After exercising your divine prerogative to think and act and relate in pursuing your mission, and you have already taken complete responsibility for your circumstances, yet if STILL the Chosen Life isn’t manifesting, don’t be alarmed! ²Perhaps you are being INITIATED by a Divine Plan through all your experiences – the apparent victories and defeats – which are PREPARING you for something GREAT.

³We want our blessings in life, and we want them now. ⁴And if we don’t get them, it can annoy, frustrate and anger us. ⁵We can wonder where The God is in all this. ⁶We can wonder when the suffering will finally end, and the bliss begin. ⁷We can wonder where the hidden justice is, after all the trials and wrongs we’ve endured. ⁸But qualities and characteristics ARE being built in these delays, and, if you’re doing your part, things ARE moving backstage, as all these things are happening. ⁹So your role is to TRUST. ¹⁰Three things are being developed and unfolded in the deprivations and delays.

¹¹CHARACTER is forged in the fires of adversity. ¹²And what is adversity but being denied our blessings, at least for the time being? ¹³Adversity is what we go through WHILE we’re being deprived of yet pursuing our Chosen Life. ¹⁴And adversity is what teaches us strength of character. ¹⁵This should serve as a reminder and a call to patience, because we are being fashioned in the waiting to live our Chosen Life and enter into manifesting our Destiny.

¹⁶PERSONALITY is unfolded and refined through the process of meeting and relating to a wide variety of people, learning from those experiences and integrating them into the face we show the world, our PUBLIC PERSONA. ¹⁷Patience should be remembered here because others often hold the mirror to us, and we get to further see who we truly are by interacting with them, which can be a slow, even ugly process, to get to know ourselves objectively, to see ourselves as the world sees us.

¹⁸And REPUTATION is the perception others have of us, established in their minds over a time of being exposed to us, arrived at from the appearance of revelations of our characters and personalities. ¹⁹Patience becomes a necessity here because it takes time for a good reputation to spread, and for it to be established and celebrated as such in the first place.

¹⁹These three links in the chain of success ONLY COME with time. ²⁰They cannot be rushed, nor should they be. Patience is KEY here as these events are lived out in the unfoldment.

Chapter 10: PRAYER

¹Prayer is often a DEBATE with The God over why we can’t have our blessings right this instant, and a PLEA to know the REASONS why the things that happened to us happened to us. ²We want results and outcomes, and we want explanations and answers. ³Ultimately, in this, we want RELIEF from our suffering. ⁴We want to make sense of everything. ⁵So we go to The God, asking Him these things: ⁶Why can’t we have what we want right now, and what’s the point in waiting longer? ⁷Why can’t The God just tell us the reason why things happened to us the way they did, then we’d finally have answers, relief and peace? ⁸How much longer is the wait until our blessings come in at last anyway? ⁹These questions haunt and plague us, don’t they? ¹⁰So where’s the consolation in them?

¹¹The purpose of us asking The God these questions is to WRESTLE with Him, resulting finally in us SURRENDERING control over to Him, and RELYING and TRUSTING in Him completely.

¹²When we ask the aforementioned questions, our Chosen Life is priority to us over His will and His plan for us and our lives. ¹³The hard TRUTH is we are resistant to the latter things – when we ask Him these questions. ¹⁴And being in that FRAME OF MIND is exactly what is being sought to be nursed and cured in us in all this busyness. ¹⁵So try to find a way to STOP RESISTING the way things are turning out for you, even if they’re vastly different than the expectations you once had for yourself and your life. ¹⁶Instead, let the experiences, and the delays and tears, break you down to the point of SURRENDER. Maybe there is a great PURPOSE in all of it.

¹⁷TRUST in The God is the ultimate goal. ¹⁸The God wants you to TRUST HIM. ¹⁹And that trust often only truly comes when we have desired to massive lengths and fought fiercely for our Chosen Life, and still, He has withheld it from us. ²⁰Then comes the realization that we are being tested by a choice: ²¹Would we rather have our Chosen Life – or would we rather have The God?

²²But I say: When surrender comes, trust FOLLOWS. ²³And when that trust is IN PLACE, the Chosen Life is very near!

Chapter 11: GRATITUDE

¹There is a great fallacy, and it is this: that once we get relief from our struggles and obtain a specific objective, THEN we will be grateful and happy. ²Is this true though? If a person isn’t grateful with a hundred dollars, do you really think they’re going to be grateful with a million? ³Once they attain it, they’re going to realize it didn’t satisfy, then turn their sights to attaining something else, something MORE, hoping that will fulfill. ⁴No, gratitude – an appreciation for the blessings we ALREADY HAVE – needs to come FIRST. ⁵It needs to start NOW. ⁶Then you will be TRULY GRATEFUL when you realize your Chosen Life.

⁷Start expressing gratitude for the blessings you already have as you go about your days. ⁸This is EASY to do. But in the beginning it can be difficult to remember. ⁹However, once in the habit, it becomes a lifestyle, or an inner and ongoing process of thinking. ¹⁰When you catch yourself enjoying a moment or something you’re experiencing, TRAIN yourself to express appreciation and gratitude for it! ¹¹Just a thought: “I like this! I’m grateful for this! Thank-you, YHWH!” ¹²That’s it. Then carry on with whatever it was you were doing.

¹³Next, something worth investing in sometimes is this: Take an hour, sit down and WRITE DOWN everything you have in your life that you’re GRATEFUL for. ¹⁴You might be surprised at what you discover in carrying out this exercise. ¹⁵But then REFLECT on that list. ¹⁶And express THANKFULNESS for it.

¹⁷And finally, if you don’t already, start showing clerks, servers and attendants gratitude, and THANKING them for their services. ¹⁸Remember, without them, you leaving the stores with the merchandise would be impermissible.

Chapter 12: DESTINY

¹When you persistently apply the philosophy presented here, eventually you will manifest your dreams and live your Chosen Life. ²You will reach soul satisfaction, with all your wants and needs met. ³You have answered fate’s call, and now it expects something of you: to pivot your focus from achieving your own interests (because you already have), and turn it to serving others interests. ⁴The Altruism that comes out of this IS YOUR DESTINY! ⁵There are three manners of aiding Humanity.

⁶First, the path you will have walked in translating your dreams into reality will make you an EXPERT on something. ⁷You won’t just have scholarly knowledge you learned at an institution, but actual practical wisdom. ⁸This becomes your GIFT to the world. ⁹You can now SHARE the knowledge, wisdom and understanding with others, by writing, lecturing or teaching what you know. ¹⁰You devote your time, effort and enery to EDIFYING and INSPIRING others.

¹¹Second, you will likely have excess CAPITAL at your disposal. ¹²This can be used for CHARITY, to bless those who have been less fortunate than you. ¹³This can be done through direct contribution or building systems that offer free services to those in need.

¹⁴And third, you will likely have influence, which you can use to give those who have proven themselves worthy OPPORTUNITIES for advancement. ¹⁵You will have connections, and you can use those connections to put the right people in partnership together in a way that will benefit both parties. ¹⁶The work here is to UPLIFT and PROSPER others.

¹⁷That is how life works: you decide, pursue and realize your Chosen Life, then you change direction from the self and devote your efforts to edifying and uplifting others.

¹⁸But the whole SECRET of this work is to take responsibility and act on what is completely within your power, surrender to The God what is not under your power, and pray to know the difference.