Do we need to set goals or do we need to live in the moment ?

You are told to set goals, you have to have plans, you have to look into the future, and then you are also told to live in the moment! It feels like there is something contradictory and I want to tell you what I think in this article.

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You have certainly heard that it is important to set goals in life, so you may have started to set some, and then at the same time you want to put more awareness, more presence because you have been told above all you must be content to live in the moment.

When you compare the two, you can feel like it's contradictory and you can wonder what you should do in the end: should you set goals or should you live in the moment, and I know that sometimes it can be a bug for your brain. We can think it's contradictory and until we understand it we can get stuck. Because we have between our two ears a real extremely powerful computer that likes to find answers all the time. And when it doesn't find one, it can prevent it from moving forward, or at least slow it down.

So I'm going to tell you what I understand about this paradox, and then how I managed to find meaning in this paradox. In fact, one of my teachers used to tell me that when you get close to the paradox you get close to the truth, and I've never forgotten that sentence, and it often comes back to me in cases like this, in cases where I have the impression that there are two things that don't go together.

When you approach the paradox, you are indeed approaching something that makes a lot of sense, so what is the meaning that I found in it?

I think that setting goals is an important thing in life, to make sure that you're moving in the right direction and not just watching time go by and waking up after 20 years feeling like you've walked away from your life for 20 years. So goals are something extremely important, and my goals of yesterday are what make up my life today. The reason I'm writing this article, the reason I've been able to develop many things in my professional life, is that at one point I had the goal of resigning from my old job with a company I didn't like.

The fact that I set a goal means that today I am living in the moment in a certain reality, and this is where the phrase (living in the moment and setting goals) is not at all illogical.

I summarize what I just told you when: I set goals, I simply define where and in which reality I am going to experience the present moment, so it is really important in my opinion to understand that we can do both. I have set myself objectives, I am now experiencing my present moment in a certain reality, I can very well have a beautiful awakening, a beautiful presence at this moment, at the moment I am living which is finally the only reality that exists while setting myself objectives.

It's not incompatible, just because I'm spiritual doesn't mean I don't set goals for where I want my life to go.

I hope that I have lifted a piece of the paradox to make you understand that we can unite the two: the more material side of the objectives and the more spiritual side of the present moment.

So of course I invite you to set goals that are really important to you, goals in which you can experience the present moment.

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Never look for solutions from the outside, we should rather look inwards, we already have all the strength within us! We just have to take advantage of it.

Fear does not go away by itself! You have to confront it and learn to control it in its irrational reality. Every human being has the power to do this.
Wim Hof

Freedom and consciousness!

Thank you for reading, Best wishes to everyone.

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@Mezzane