Imagine you five years later

Note: I have taken the initiative to learn this article on the Internet. I think I have set some detailed goals for myself at the beginning of each year. However, over the past year, these goals have almost never been achieved. Many times I know that the target is there, but I think there is still a lot of time, and it is always a drag-and-drop, and I cannot do anything at the end. We are very appreciative of this idea of reverse pushing, which deserves the practice of many of us. Of course, no matter how beautiful the goal is, no matter how comprehensive the plan is, the most important thing is to calm down and execute it, to do everything well.

 

In the winter of 1976, I was 19 years old and worked at the Space Shuttle lab at Houston Space Administration, and majored in computer science at the University of Houston next to the General Administration. Even when I was busy with school, sleep, and work, it took almost 24 hours a day, but as long as there was an extra minute, I always put all my energy into my music creation.

I know that writing lyrics is not my specialty, so during this period, I have been searching for a partner who is good at writing songs and words and working with me to create lyrics. I met a friend named Valerie Johnson ). I have never heard of her since I left Texas more than 20 years ago, but she gave me the greatest encouragement when I started my career. I don't know how many medals I have won in the 19-Year-Old Fan Inui's poetry competition in Texas. Her writing has always made me easy. At that time, we did write many good works. Until now, I still think these works are full of special characteristics and creativity.

 

On a Saturday weekend, vaninui warmly invited me to barbecue at her farm. Her family is a famous Texas oil tycoon with a huge farm. Although her family is very rich, her dress, driving car, and kind of courtesy of her make me admire her from the bottom of my heart. Van Neri knows my passion for music. However, in the face of the distant music industry and the unfamiliar Recording market in the United States, we have no channels at all. Now, we are two people sitting in the country of Texas. How do we know what to do next. Suddenly, she came up with a sentence:

"Visualize, what you are doing in 5 years? What do you want to do in five years? Else ﹚"

I paused.

She turned around and pointed to me and said, "Hey! Tell me, what do you expect most in your mind five years later? What did your life look like at that time ?" I was too late to answer the question, and she rushed to say, "Don't worry. You have to think about it carefully and think about it completely ." After a few minutes of meditation, I began to tell her: "First, five years later, I hope to have a record on the market, which is very popular and can be recognized by many people. Second, I live in a place with a lot of music and can work with some world-class musicians every day ."

Van Neri said, "Are you sure ?"

I answered the question slowly and pulled a long yesssssss!

Van Neri went on to say, "Well, now that you are sure, we will calculate this goal back. If you have a record on the market in the fifth year, you must sign a contract with a record company in the fourth year ."

"In the third year, you must have a complete file that can be used by many record companies, right ?"

"In the second year, you must start recording great works ."

"In the first year, you must compile all the works you want to prepare for recording and prepare for rehearsal ."

"In the sixth month, you will modify unfinished works and then let yourself filter them one by one ."

"Your first month is to complete the current songs ."

"In the first week, you should first list the entire list, which songs need to be modified and which need to be completed ."

"Well, now we don't know what you want to do next Monday ?" Fan Rui said with a smile.

"Oh, right. You also said that you will live in a place with a lot of music in five years, and then work with many top-notch musicians, right ?" She hurriedly added. "If you have been working with these people in the fifth year, you should have your own studio or recording studio in the fourth year. So your third year may be working with people in this circle first. In the second year, you should not have lived in Texas, but in New York or on a plane ."

In the following year (1977), I quit the work of the Space Agency that attracted many people, left Houston, and moved to the airport.

 

It's also strange: I dare not say it's just five years, but it's about the sixth year. In 1983, my records began to be sold in Asia. I spent almost all of my 24 hours a day working with some top music experts, working day and night.

 

Whenever I am confused, I will calm down and ask myself: five years later, you "hope" to see what you are doing?

If you don't know the answer yourself, how do you ask others or God to make choices or open the way for you? Don't forget! In life, God has put all the power of choice in our hands.

If you often ask "why ?" "Why ?" You may as well try to ask yourself, do you know exactly what you want?

If you don't even know what you want, how can the Lord who loves you arrange for you? Isn't it?

The people next to you are eager to beat the drums for you, and the Lord who loves you gives at most some compassionate comfort. Because you haven't even clearly told him what you want? Then how can you blame God for not making a path for you? Isn't it?

 

What does such a survey seem to illustrate:

One year, a group of proud people graduated from Harvard University, and they are about to begin to cross their respective corn fields. Their intelligence, education, and environmental conditions are almost the same. Before leaving, Harvard conducted a survey on their life goals. The result is as follows:

27% of users have no target;

60% of people have blurred targets;

10% of people have clear but short-term goals;

3% of people have clear and long-term goals.

In the next 25 years, they crossed the cornfield. 25 years later, Harvard once again tracked this group of students. The result is as follows:

3% of people, who have made unremitting efforts in one direction over the past 25 years, have almost all become successful people from all walks of life, including industry leaders and social elites;

10% of people continue to achieve their short-term goals and become professionals in various fields. Most of them live in the middle and upper layers of society;

60% of people live and work securely, but have no special achievements. Almost all of them live in the middle and lower layers of society;

The remaining 27% of people have no goals in their lives and have a bad life. They often complain about others, society, and the world that "won't give them a chance.

 

In fact, the difference between them is that, 25 years ago, some of them knew why they wanted to cross the cornfield, while others were not clear or clear.

This is the end of the story. I don't know whether the story is true or false, because I don't know the name of the story when I see it. I don't know who wrote it. However, here we can see the importance of our career planning. We will immediately find that we have no time to stop and stay in a daze.

(This article is transferred from: first employee website)