subject: You've Got One Shot - What Are You Aiming For? [print this page] Author: Author: . Hussey" href="http://www.articlesbase.com/authors/james-m.-hussey/260803.htm">James M. Hussey
You've Got One Shot - What Are You Aiming For? Ready, aim...wait a minute, what are you aiming for? Have you taken aim at some "general" sense of a vague cloud of a dream of a sort-of goal? That won't work. The old adage, "Aim for the moon, that way, if you miss, at least you'll be amongst the stars" might have worked as a classic movie line from some movie whose title escapes me at present, but neither NASA nor any other aeronautic, military, business or sales enterprise makes their business run on such a funky premise. Why do we allow ourselves such a long leash? What do we think we know that billion-dollar industries don't about planning ahead? Vague "goals" and misty "dreams" go about as far as the nose on our faces. Pretend for a second that you had a loaded gun--and I apologize if you don't normally think in such graphic, violent terms, but I have a Second Amendment bloodstream running through my veins and I can't help it--and you we about to fire your single shot, and after that you were out of ammo. What would you be aiming for? Whatever it was, I'm sure you'd be aiming for a target of some sort. Unless you were a cartoon. In real life, we don't waste the single shot...or do we? Isn't that what the last year was? And the year before that--was it any different? If you take a whole string of wasted moments, a second here and a minute there, soon enough you have an hour. Wasted. For good. Do that again, and you've got a day. Wasted. Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Soon enough, you've got the week under your belt, wondering where it went, where you're headed, and what this whole thing's all about. Do that a little wee bit more and you've wasted a year. Then a decade. Until one day, you're sitting in a rocking chair looking for your teeth, wondering why nobody visits and why retirement was such a highly advertised feature from those fast-talking salesmen at the retirement home ten years ago. I'm not trying to get all morbid on you: but you have one shot. You have one chance to make this second, this minute, this day...this year...this life count. I'm 34 years old at the time I write this. I'm speaking to myself right now, realizing that I've got the same shot as anyone, and asking myself the tough question: what am I aiming at? What's my "target"? Is it worth shooting for? Is it clearly in my sights? Ready, aim...About the Author:
James Hussey works in a successful family business by day, and moonlights three different ways: he web-publishes on his pet blogs, freelance writes on Elance as "JamestheJust," and does his own article marketing campaigns. His blogs now include Dog Pet Stores, where you'll find all of your dog's products such as training collars for dogs, or answers to dog behavior questions, where you can find info and resources for all your dog's needs.
