UNDERSTANDING CLARITY IS POWER

I have come across this meaningful phrase, 'Clarity is Power', for the first time during the early nineties when I was attending a 3-1/2 day week-end seminar in Adelaide, Australia.

At that time, I was a 43 years old pro - a hard-working corporate rat, working in quiet desperation. I was pondering about what I wanted to do with the second half of my life.

The more enlightened psychologists often like to call the phenomenon, the 'mid-life transition'.

At the seminar, I went through the so-called mandatory 'Blocks Game', which then woke me up, besides clearing up some yak-berries (the seminar terminology for "emotional baggage") inside my system.

To gain further insights - plus tools & strategies, I then went on to attend a related 16-day residential boot-camp in Kona, Hawaii, a couple of months later.

I then realised that the moment I had decided who I was, what I wanted to do with my life, & where I wanted to go, I knew instantly what would really excite me the most in my life.

As a result, I knew exactly where to focus my personal attention, & more importantly, how to marshall my energetic efforts & financial resources to pursue what I had wanted to experience so badly.

Clarity is Power!

Putting it more simply, it means that, the clearer we know about our own self [our personal strengths & problems, in relation to the context of opportunities & threats out there] & about our preferred outcomes, the clearer is our thought processing, & of course, the greater are our chances for success achievement.

Henceforth, our intellectual processes of decision making & action planning become crystal sharp the moment we have decided what we want out of life.

Anthony Robbins is absolutely right:

"It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped."

Why is clarity so powerful?

The answer is very simple:

- our mind becomes laser-focused;

- our intent becomes purpose-driven;

- our will becomes inner-directed;

Best of all, they energise & motivate us to take action!

When we know who we are & what we want out of life, they spark us to take action in the direction of our fondest dreams.

Action always creates motivation.

Once we take action, motivation is soon to follow.

The more action we take, the more motivated we become.

Once we have decided exactly who we are, what we want out of life, & what we want to do with our life, it is actually quite easy to figure out how to organise our own self to get it.

Most people tend to lack the clarity of mind & may have very foggy goals or even wander their way through life, daydreaming all day long. They lack the real direction, so to speak.

This is why we are often encouraged by peak performance experts to develop S.M.A.R.T.E.R goals in all areas of our life.

To recap, S.M.A.R.T.E.R goals are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic, time-bound, enjoyable [also read: "motivating"] & rewarding.

With the S.M.A.R.T.E.R goals in place, life becomes so much more fun & exciting, as we have something attractive & worthwhile to aim for.

Once we have crystal clarity in our mind, & with very specific targets to aim for, it becomes natural for us to do everything possible to keep them in the forefront of our daily focus.

As I have said before, our mind follows only one direction: the direction of our current dominant thoughts.

One way to enhance this natural facility is to write all our goals down on paper.

Writing on paper actually helps to crystalise our thoughts further. This also explains why journaling is such a powerful tool.

Clarity is Power!