Purposeful Creation Requires Foresight (BeFirst Course 141)

Right off the bat, I'm Dr. David King, husband, flower. Hey there, welcome back. In this video, we're going to review really quickly what we reviewed in the last video. And then we're going to talk about another concept that I'm excited to share with you. Again, I hope you're enjoying this content. I hope you're enjoying the learning process and the stretching that comes along with it. Please give me some commentary if you'd like any additional feedback or discussion along certain points and topics. I'm always happy to hear how things are going, how we can clarify things, and also what you might feel is valuable. So we just discussed a moment ago, how lacking an anchor and being driven by the prevailing winds and tides can cause all sorts of issues for us long-term. So let's dig into that again, just really, really quickly. You know, the key that we're talking about here is making sure that we have a solid rooted foundation that's connected to principles that don't change, right? This swaying thing that oftentimes happens as a result of choices and influences, especially this stuff, social media and influences from individuals around us, news programs, et cetera, et cetera. These things can be manipulated and manipulative. So ensure that we have strategic rivets like the Levi's jeans analogy we talked about that give us a tight connection, a bond, a weld to those principles, those foundations that will not be swayed based on public opinion. Okay, moving on. So now we're going to talk more about having an end vision and how purposeful creation requires foresight vision. So let me dig into that just a little bit. So foresight vision is something I think that's very valuable for us to have, meaning looking ahead into the future and envisioning what our future may look like. The key here is to be realistic. Let me read through some of these paragraphs and add some commentary as we move forward in the process of development and creation of who and what we are and do. And remember, the creation process is also a discovery process. Discovery. It can be valuable to take into consideration what the end result of all this creation or discovery will look like. Envisioning what the end is from the beginning can be a valuable tool and a worthwhile exercise to employ on a more regular basis as a form of self-evaluation. Caution should be exercised, though, as we want to be realistic in our preparation and anticipation of the future. There are times when it's absolutely appropriate to think outside the box, outside of the box, and to assume the best case scenario. There are also times when a more circumspect approach with a very specific and cautious optimism could be or would be advised. As we begin moving forward toward actively creating and improving ourselves, specific and attainable and sustainable baby steps should be enumerated. The main point here is that purposeful creation, intentional adjustment, specific targeting of an end outcome needs to be measured, specific, sustainable, and planned. There's some important descriptors there. Measured, specific, sustainable, and let's do a star around this one, planned. That doesn't really look very clear. We'll do fuzzies around there. There we go. Measured, specific, sustainable, and planned. All right? Those things are absolutely critical. We've talked about before how accidental discovery and creation happens once in a while, but it's not the general rule, so we should not rely entirely on that. We have to make sure that we are envisioning what that future looks like and establishing some very specific, attainable, sustainable, and measured goals. Otherwise, have you heard the analogy, aim small, miss small? The first time I heard that was in the movie, The Patriot. And it's interesting that the main character played by Mel Gibson is giving his son, his young son, a firearm and asking him to shoot at, to kill these, the soldiers for the, you know, the English soldiers that are coming now to take over and destroy his farm. So imagine this, a man who has fought and, you know, experienced the horror of war and death, now handing a firearm to his young son and all the emotion that's entailed in that young son. And he was, I think it was eight or nine, maybe 10 years old. It might've been 12. Anyway, one of the only things he says is, look for the leaders and aim small, miss small. And for a while, it took me, you know, some, some time to think about and recognize, at least try to recognize what that comment means. But it makes a lot of sense when you think about it. So if I'm aiming for the whole body, if you will, the whole chest, then I may miss the whole chest in this situation. But if I'm aiming for a button on the center of his chest and I missed the button, I've still hit my target, assuming I'm somewhere where I should be. Now, killing people isn't necessarily an analogy we want to use here, but let's, let's break it down to how it, how it would work in, in our individual lives. So for instance, you know, if I had a goal here at the dental office to provide a certain number of procedures like new patient exams or cleanings, or, you know, certain number of crown or restorative procedures, and I enumerated that goal, wrote it down, made sure it was specific and attainable and sustainable without damaging, you know, the infrastructure of the office, it'd be much easier to attain if it was very specific and written down. Now, if I just say to do as much as possible, yes, that's a goal. It's not very specific and it won't necessarily yield the success that we're looking for, because if I have a number, you know, like 28 or whatever it is, and I missed that number and I get 26 or 27, that's great. If I just have this pie in the sky, meaning how many do I want to accomplish? Just a whole bunch. If I have this vision of just whatever I can do as much as I can do, how do I know when I've succeeded, right? In some situations, having a goal that's that broad is helpful, but in most situations it's not. Okay. Now, probably most of you have heard this right here, this outside the box. Think outside the box. Um, but I'm not sure many of you may know the image that goes along with it. So here is a box of nine dots. Okay. The key now is to draw a box without lifting your pencil or pen and connect them all. I think it's in four lines, right? So here's one line, two, three, four, right? That didn't work. Let's try it this way. One, two, three, four. Nope. Still have two of them. Um, let's try it another way. One, two, three, four. Nope. So that's not going to work. And if we're drawing straight lines, they all have to be connected. How are we going to do this? Come one, two, three, four. Nope. Still leaves one out. All right. So let's now think outside the box, outside the box, meaning outside of these nine dots that form a box. Okay. We're going to think outside of them and let me demonstrate. Okay. Four lines. Can't lift your pencil. One, two. Oh, there's outside the box. Three, four. Okay. You see that? Outside the box. Let's do it again. The key now is from any direction, you go down to the corner and you come up. We're going to go outside the box. You're going to grab these two and back in. Okay. That's four, right? There's one, two, three, and four. One more time for good measure. All right. One, two, three, and four. So yeah, just curve. So four lines outside the box. These areas are what we need to utilize to connect in this scenario to connect those nine dots with four lines. So think outside the box means essentially accomplishing our same purpose, but stepping slightly outside the paved road, if you will. That's helpful to do in many situations in a creative situation. That's awesome. However, however, when we're talking about goals and progress and, you know, normal daily accomplishments, we need to make sure that we have specific attainable and sustainable goals in place so that we can actually achieve those goals. So they need to be within the box, meaning within the realm of what's normal and accomplishable. Otherwise success will probably be out of our reach because we don't really know what it is. So we have to define success, measure it, set up a way to evaluate what success is, and then move forward in a very sustainable and planned way. Okay. So in the next lecture, we're going to talk about time traveling. Sounds great and fun and exciting. Okay. And we'll see in the next lecture. Thanks.