Late at night when you lie in bed and cannot fall asleep, your mind wanders.

You think about many random things. Pay attention to them. Do you see that there is always a plot to everything you think about?

When you think about a girl you’re having a crush on, do you think only of her beautiful face? Noo. You also think about some special moments you shared with her, how you can get her to be your girlfriend, and all the fun activities you two will have together. There are countless scenarios that you can easily come up with involving you and that girl.

The same goes with thinking about a game, a movie, an activity, or a road trip, etc. It is always a story that you think about. Never a single image. And you always try to come to an ending for every story—most often a happy ending. You come up with many constructive thoughts that help you reach your happy ending. The whole process is fun, and that’s why you always think about everything that way.

So, you have one or two projects/goals to achieve. Every night in bed, you will think about how you can achieve that goal, what to do to get you there—all the different scenarios, different activities that you can think of to get you closer to your happy ending. Of course, the process gets you pumped up on working toward reaching your goals. In fact, it is such an inspiring and motivational experience that you cannot wait to wake up the next morning and lift some heavy weights. You become one with your goals. Achieving your goals and thinking about them are among the few things in your life that give you happiness and peace of mind.

You become super focused on your goals. That is the best thing ever!

Unfortunately, no matter how pumped up you are thinking about your goals, the experience pales in comparison with the pleasure you get from fantasizing about a computer game, a girl, or a movie, etc. And thanks to the well-known fact that your mind prefers to think only about what is most pleasurable, you’ll quickly find yourself barely ever think about your goals at all.

That’s why you should control your desires: so that you don’t have girls, games, or any distraction to think about. Start your journey fresh, without any distraction to worry about. Keep focus on the goal throughout the journey, and you will enjoy every minute of it. Lose focus and soon doubts will block you from ever reaching the end of the journey.

“The first law of success is concentration – to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right or to the left.”  -William Matthews

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