Personal Goals
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Disinfected
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Making up for lost time. Time lost putting importance on things that were not important and neglecting those that could be.
Lermanet_com
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find my purpose for being here (check) get it done so I dont have to come back...(almost done)
Disinfected
Patron Meritorious
For me, it is just a matter of starting and persisting. Having my own goals is not as easy as it was when I was younger but I intend to persist.
I work with the Race Committee at my sailing club. Yesterday I shared a committee boat with a former Royal Navy officer that now captains luxury yachts worldwide and a former Vietnam era F-4 fighter pilot. The captain told stories of prepping for pirates and bribing his ship's way through the Suez canal (SOP) and the pilot told of being hit over N. Vietnam and making to sea before ejecting from his wounded F-4. I did not bother telling them of the time I made it go right and borrowed a bunch of money from my friends to pay for my TE at the AO. LOL
Wow,that's pretty good. I wish I could do that.
I'm not sure I have a purpose. Help others? Find truth? Create justice on this planet? None of those would ever really be done, but I guess I could continue them in the afterlife.
Teanntás
Silver Meritorious Patron
I'm currently mulling over the ideas in a book called 'The DNA of Success' by Jack Zufelt
"What is this vital element and where is the switch to our God given power to do, have or become whatever we want…our Conquering Force? Where does one get enthusiasm and discipline? What is the source of self-motivation that keeps one hanging in there, persisting and being determined to make the necessary character changes required for the level of success they want? Where does the inner drive and strength come from to do that which is unpleasant, hard or way out of one’s comfort zone? What activates the unstoppable Conquering Force within all of us?
Only one thing. Core Desires (c) A Core Desire is something you want with all your heart. Your core desires are something you want so badly you will do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, no matter how hard, scary or expensive it is, to get it. Core Desires flip on the switch and unleash your Conquering Force which allows you to overcome every barrier and obstacle in your way.
Robert Collier author of over a dozen books relating to “Core Desires” said, “The first principal of success is desire. If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly get it.”
Most people don’t know how to accurately identify their Core Desires and that leaves their Conquering Force unavailable to help them overcome the obstacles they face.
Everything you want in this life can be measured on a scale from 1 to 100. Core Desires(c) are the 100s. If the desire for the end result is a 50 on the scale that is half-heated. 70 on the scale you’ll get 70 percent of the way there. Any obstacle at 71 or higher will stop you permanently just like a dam does water. There are always obstacles between where you are and where you want to be but you will conquer them all if it is a Core Desire….a 100 on the scale.
Eric Hoffer said this: “It seems that intense desire creates not only its opportunities but its own talents.” Any one who succeeded at anything did so because of Core Desires, a 100 on the scale.
Once you discover a 100 on the scale you are then motivated, from within, to learn and do whatever is needed to get to your Core Desires. Barriers and obstacles may slow you down but they will not stop you achieving your core desires.
Rudyard Kipling, Nobel Prize winning author knew all about core desires when he said it this way: “If you do not get what you want it is a sign that you did not seriously want it.”
Success will always be the end result after you identify your Core Desires… your 100s."
http://www.salesdrive.com.au/core-desires/
Dean Blair
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One of my goals is the same a AnonyMary as listed above "Shutting the Bridge Down". I feel that it is a necessary task due to the fact that I had been fooled for so many years and I don't want others to have that experience.
My goal after leaving Scientology in 1991 was to lead a happy life and to be able to get married and raise a family and experience all of the good things I was not able to experience while dedicating my life to Scientology. Just being able to buy a car and drive where ever I wanted to. Being able to go to a restaurant and order some delicious food. I was so happy and felt great relief after getting away from Scientology. I felt free at last.
I did get married in 1996 and I do now have a family which was what I wanted. My wife and I have a ten year old son who we absolutely adore and it has been one of the biggest blessings in my life.
My goal after leaving Scientology in 1991 was to lead a happy life and to be able to get married and raise a family and experience all of the good things I was not able to experience while dedicating my life to Scientology. Just being able to buy a car and drive where ever I wanted to. Being able to go to a restaurant and order some delicious food. I was so happy and felt great relief after getting away from Scientology. I felt free at last.
I did get married in 1996 and I do now have a family which was what I wanted. My wife and I have a ten year old son who we absolutely adore and it has been one of the biggest blessings in my life.
programmer_guy
True Ex-Scientologist
Personal goals shift and change throughout life.
IMO, life has major time periods (and the personal goals change as we live through them and enter the next one).
For example:
1. early childhood
2. starting school
3. graduation from high school
4. starting internship in a profession or starting college
5. getting side-tracked by involvement in a mind control cult (Oops!)
6. marriage
7. having children (and parenting them through their early stages of life)
8. children leave home to start their own adult lives
9. retirement
That's just some stuff from off the top of my head.
IMO, life has major time periods (and the personal goals change as we live through them and enter the next one).
For example:
1. early childhood
2. starting school
3. graduation from high school
4. starting internship in a profession or starting college
5. getting side-tracked by involvement in a mind control cult (Oops!)
6. marriage
7. having children (and parenting them through their early stages of life)
8. children leave home to start their own adult lives
9. retirement
That's just some stuff from off the top of my head.
renegade
Silver Meritorious Patron
Congrats on enjoying your life. I wish that for all those who have been fooled by the cult. I feel that the people who have been used were really trusting and in their hearts would never imagine that someone could use them for their own ends.
I told you I was trouble
Suspended animation
My personal goal is to be able to accept without any hurt feelings, desperation, grief or bitterness that some smelly, smarmy, evil, dead, rotten toothed, red haired, fat arsed, cultic guru ... is more important to my children than I (apparently) ever was.
I've probably still got a little way to go, but I like to think I'm getting there.
Lol.
Free Being Me
Crusader
One of my personal goals is to continuously speak out against El Con and his $cientology. The other is live life and appreciate being alive every moment, being kind and compassionate because that's the inner me I lost touch with from an abusive childhood.
Panda Termint
Cabal Of One
"To make it up as I go along."
Wait... I might have borrowed that Goal from someone else.
(I just made that up!)
Wait... I might have borrowed that Goal from someone else.
(I just made that up!)
Lermanet_com
Gold Meritorious Patron
"Only $cientology makes you feel helpless and guilty for not being perfect" Ida Camburn
Just do the best you can, that is good enough.
WildKat
Gold Meritorious Patron
I assume if it weren't too personal, you would have shared some detail?? Yeah, I'm nosy.
It's a pretty big deal to figure out what you're here for. Or to think you know what you're here for.
I'm still trying to figure it out, for myself.
I think it has something to do with solving puzzles - LOL! The puzzle of life maybe.
Maybe we're all here to resolve Karmic issues. And then not HAVE to come back, as you mentioned. Sounds nice.
JustMe
Patron Meritorious
I had star-high goals in scientology to try to spread love and make the world a better place.
On reflection, that was also my goal before scientology and afterwards.
After I saw all the pain inflicted on so many because of scientology, and knowing that I unintentionally greatly helped scientology to hurt others, one of my main goals for years became to expose that which I helped build for scientology to hide behind. I wanted so much to help open the floodgates to truth so as to help others speak out, to become free of the bonds of scientology and to reconnect with loved ones.
I gave it my best shot.
The floodgates have indeed opened whether or not I was much help in that. I don't know that I have much more, if anything, to give on this as the truth now overwhelms organized scientology where once it seemed so high and mightly hiding behind its corporate viels and religious cloaking and its intimidation of others.
In all of this, my greatest and purest goal was to try to send something loving and wonderful into the future and in doing so help make the world a better place.
Trying to do that with scientology was a total failure. But there was one place where I have accomplished this and that is in sending my beautiful daughter and granddaughter into the future for after I am gone.
My daughter is everything that was ever good in me, she is loving, she is kind and she makes me proud everyday. I have loved her unconditionally throughout her life. And to the extent she touches it, the world is and will to that degree continue to be a better place. And I already see her building that love in my granddaughter at this early stage.
That's my best shot. That's my one accomplishment. That's my opus. And their potential is indeed far greater than what I have left in this life.
And that makes me really happy.
Beyond that I just want to do my best to share as much love as I can with family and friends who I hope can be happy and healthy.
And on a purely personal level I suppose I am hoping for just two more things:
1. try to have a couple more years or even a few more months being the real me, so much of which I missed in most of this life; and
2. I have a strong internal sense that I am on my way "home". And I pray that on my way there I might die well and that my daughter might recover from that quickly.
I guess that's it.
Simple goals really.
On reflection, that was also my goal before scientology and afterwards.
After I saw all the pain inflicted on so many because of scientology, and knowing that I unintentionally greatly helped scientology to hurt others, one of my main goals for years became to expose that which I helped build for scientology to hide behind. I wanted so much to help open the floodgates to truth so as to help others speak out, to become free of the bonds of scientology and to reconnect with loved ones.
I gave it my best shot.
The floodgates have indeed opened whether or not I was much help in that. I don't know that I have much more, if anything, to give on this as the truth now overwhelms organized scientology where once it seemed so high and mightly hiding behind its corporate viels and religious cloaking and its intimidation of others.
In all of this, my greatest and purest goal was to try to send something loving and wonderful into the future and in doing so help make the world a better place.
Trying to do that with scientology was a total failure. But there was one place where I have accomplished this and that is in sending my beautiful daughter and granddaughter into the future for after I am gone.
My daughter is everything that was ever good in me, she is loving, she is kind and she makes me proud everyday. I have loved her unconditionally throughout her life. And to the extent she touches it, the world is and will to that degree continue to be a better place. And I already see her building that love in my granddaughter at this early stage.
That's my best shot. That's my one accomplishment. That's my opus. And their potential is indeed far greater than what I have left in this life.
And that makes me really happy.
Beyond that I just want to do my best to share as much love as I can with family and friends who I hope can be happy and healthy.
And on a purely personal level I suppose I am hoping for just two more things:
1. try to have a couple more years or even a few more months being the real me, so much of which I missed in most of this life; and
2. I have a strong internal sense that I am on my way "home". And I pray that on my way there I might die well and that my daughter might recover from that quickly.
I guess that's it.
Simple goals really.
Veda
Sponsor
That is a beautiful message.
You were and are very important in opening the flood gates of truth.
What you have contributed could not have been contributed by anyone else.
You are unique, and more people than you will ever meet, owe you more than they can ever express.
I hope all is well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK2m7rYjZ54&feature=results_video&playnext=1&list=PL8458AD21217B8E97
Claire Swazey
Spokeshole, fence sitter
This year I am working on understanding and practicing meditation. There seems to be a lot to learn.
One thing I really need to get better at is not letting stuff get me down.
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