Begin With The End In Mind For Success

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In this blog, I'll teach you to envision your desired direction and destination and make these things happen in your life. Let's go!

In order to fully understand this topic, how about we start with a visualization experiment? Imagine you are at your funeral and observing what your loved ones, colleagues, and friends will say about you and your life. What would you like them to say about you? How do you want to be remembered?

To begin with, the end in mind simply means you have to better understand your present situation to take the right steps to get to your final destination. Thinking about what will be said about you at your funeral will allow you to find your definition of success. This habit is based on the principle that all things are created twice.

For example, if you want to build a company, you start by brainstorming to get ideas of what you want it to look like. If the company will be promoting group work and transparency, then the plan will include open offices or co-working spaces. Then, you proceed to create a blueprint and develop building plans with details on how it will look. So, once construction has commenced, you don’t have to make changes that might be expensive.

This principle applies to various aspects of our lives too. For some of us, our first creation is based on our conditioning and training. Then, we proactively design our lives from that first creation and vice versa. Leadership is the first creation that surveys the situation and determines if we are clearing the right jungle, while management is the second creation that determines the efficiency of clearing out the jungle. This means that effectiveness in making the right moves.

In business, no management success can compensate for failed leadership. But since leadership is difficult, we often get stuck in a management paradigm.

Let’s take the case of the president of an oil company who attended a year-long executive development program conducted by the author of "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" - Stephen Covey in Seattle.

Close to the end, he approached the author and told him that he decided to take action based on the author’s teachings. He became more involved in leadership — problem-analysis, direction, and culture-building issues than management — dealing with urgent matters. Today, their revenues and profits have immensely increased.

Proactivity is based on the human’s self-awareness. Therefore, to increase our proactivity and exercise leadership in our personal lives, all we need is conscience and imagination. Through imagination, we can access our unlimited potentials. Through conscience, we can use our talents and contributions to connect with universal laws to effectively develop them. Since we already live with the ineffective scripts that others handed to us, rescripting is a proactive process of writing our own scripts or shifting our paradigms.

A good example of rescripting can be seen in the autobiography of Egypt’s former president, Anwar Sadat. He was raised and deeply scripted in hatred for Israel. When he became president, he rescripted his attitude toward Israel by visiting Knesset in Jerusalem and establishing peace movements.

Sadat used his conscience, imagination, and self-awareness to build his personal leadership in order to change his perspective of the situation. Using our creativity and imagination, we are responsible to create new and effective scripts that match our deep values.

For example, suppose you always use your authority and size to yell and intimidate your children. Remember, the visualization experiment earlier about you at your funeral. To begin with, the End in Mind will allow you to analyze your parenting role and think of how you want to be remembered by your kids. Then, you will be able to focus on your deepest values as a parent and rescript yourself to match those values. Once you focus our lives on timeless unchanging principles, we will be able to create an important paradigm of effective living.

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