The Goal is Not the Point

It’s not much of a gap, really. Like any other good treasure hunt, you have a map to guide you. In life, the map is your major part of the universe. Some of the areas on the map are quite well. These areas are the places and people and things that you are familiar with and these are part of your daily life.
Other areas of the map are unknown to you. These areas are yet-to-be-explored. This undiscovered portion of the map is where your hopes, goals and dreams survive. These goals are like small pieces of buried treasure that are hidden somewhere in the map, somewhere that you hope to get on to very soon.
One day, a particular goal grabs your attention and you decide to set out on a treasure hunt.
The problem with a treasure hunt is that the most of the people spend all of their time thinking about the treasure. The fastest way to achieve a particular spot, is to set your compass and start walking.
The idea here is to fulfil to your goal with the utmost conviction. Develop a clear, single-minded focus for where you are heading. Then, you do something strange. You also release the desire to achieve a particular outcome and focus instead on the slow march forward.
Your goal becomes your compass, not the buried treasure. The goal should be your direction, not your destination. The goal should be your mission that you are on, not a path that you follow. Whatever comes from that path or whatever treasure you happen to judge along this journey it's well, that’s just fine.

By: Saksham Gupta
Content: https://jamesclear.com/treasure-hunt