Do you have a vison for your life?

I am not even sure how it happened! I was reading an article in Der Spiegel about journalism, journalists, Snowdon and the end of democracy.
I had known about the government spying on its citizens,because a few years ago, as a translator, I had translated some manuals. And here in the Philippines the TV series "Person of interest" is shown. What really shocked me was the extend by which we are spied on.  And a question that never was answered, not even asked, was/is "Whom do they think they protect" with millions or even billions of our (taxpayers) money?
Then I read about an e-Store builder, because one of my options is to have my own online store.
Maybe it adds that the last few days I had thought or better wondered why I seem to have problems to find the proper people to work together with.
Now I also remember when I went to bed last night I was thinking about my leader qualities and my "lack" of follower qualities.
Yes, then it happened, like a flash of lightning it hit me"I only plan my future and live it"
I live my live like an employee. No, this is not to belittle employees, it is more the mechanism I want to point out: I plan my future, I set goals, and milestones and start working to realizes it. At the milestones I stop and check, adjust means and direction. And very often I reach my set goal.
Yes sometimes I do not. But I never fail, because I always learn.
This had made me content and no matter if I was in an up or a down part of the live cycles I knew I do well.
Do you see what I mean? I have no vision to follow!
You may wonder what makes the difference some call it a goal others call it a vision.
I see a huge difference!
A goal is something you know, see or have heard about.
A vision is something that only exists in the other worlds and you started to make it come true in this world too. The Apple founder Steve Jobs was a visionary!

Yes, not everybody can be a Steve Jobs. And if you live an ordinary live a goal might suit you well and even put you in the top section of mankind, because most struggle day to day to "survive".
What if this is the problem?
What if we struggle so much
because we do not have a vision?
I am not talking about hard times, even visionaries have them (Jobs for example had cancer, as you know). What I mean is most of us are like soldiers in a medieval battle, we see the enemy closing in on use, swords threatening us and step by step we advance or move back wards, we get wounded and continue to fight.
If we have a vision, we do not only see the enemy in front of us, we know what we fight for and more like the commander on his hill, we see the battle as a whole!

Maybe you should stop for a moment and check if you have a plan for your life and your family and probably even your business. And if you follow a religious or spiritual path, kindly do not exclude it!

Goal setting in the inner and the outer

More than half a life time back I came to Eckankar. At first the goal was clear I wanted to become a HI, an Higher Initiate. When I finally reached that goal my live changed, which was to be expected - in the inner and the outer. It took me about 6 month to master the mayor changes and deal with it in the inner. And then?
Yes!
And then I realized I had no more goal!
You might think "And? What is the problem?"
You define a new goal!
 I agree and that is easy as long as you can imagine what is within your reach.
Imagine you die, reach the pearly gates and St. Peter asks you what you want to do the next million of years. If you do not know what the heaven really is, it is difficult to image what to go, where to go.

About 2 month ago a long term contact ended and I was a freelancer again (without regular income) and about 1 month aho I came across Cashunite. Gathering the available information together with my knowledge if the net, I immediately saw a huge potential for me and for others. So I decided to go for it and as a side effect help others.
As a spiritual being in a certain situation I tend to see something for me to learn and something to give. For a beggar a coin might be worth much more than a friendly or wise word.
Well, I have more wisdom to share than coins.

Now with Cashunite I could do both. If you know the Philippines you know that beside miles and miles of endless empty beaches and a beautiful landscape, there are also lots and lots of social problems. What I referring too is that schooling/eduction is expensive and that there is no divorce law. So many women are dumped by there husbands, together with their children.
Being an online worker I also do a lot of chatting and meet a lot of those women.
There is hardly a week I am not asked if I have work for them. With Cashunite I thought I have.
I admit I am a dreamer, a careful dreamer. Cashunite, like many other Internet businesses promisses a lot. So not to give false hope I was thinking up what to do if Cashunite did not work out. With this in mind I started to promote and offer this chance to the dumped mothers and ex-wives.
I had expected that they more than willingly would grab this opportunity.
I was wrong.
And I had problems understanding!
But with questioning the ones I knew from chatting I realized most of them had a fairly close horizon. It is like  living in a small valley. What I was offering them was behind their horizon and hardly imaginable. Like I was when I finally had reached my first spiritual goal in Eckankar. To make things worse, things we do not know create a feeling of uncertainty and fear. But fear is something we try to avoid instead of confront.
So here I was with a solution to their problem. In a way this is a frustrating situation.
But frustration is not a solution! They could not imagine and hence could not set it as a  goal!
Then what is the solution?

Well, as Richard Bach says in his book "Illusions - the adventure of a reluctant Messiah" we are looking for problems because we want the gifts hidden in the solution.
One of my gifts is to realize that this outer experience is a reflection of something inner I go through.
And the solution for these women and their children?
That is NOT my problem! Hence my solution would deprive them from the gifts they learn by solving their problem?
So I am an egoist?
It may seem so, but I think it takes more love to let people do what they need to do for themselves than to insist on a solution which is not theirs.
I would not be surprised if this is the reason why so many development projects fail.

I already learned a lot by joining Cashunite. I invite you to join me in this adventure - no matter where in the world you are! It can solve your financial problems, but even if not you know often walking the way is what matters, not (only) reaching the goal.