Clarify your goals on paper. Use the W-5 Process. You can’t just randomly or haphazardly approach the future; you must design it. You’ve heard about the fool who goes hunting with a crossbow and fires an arrow into the forest, saying to himself, “Boy, I sure hope something runs into that.” Later, he finds the arrow lodged into a tree and draws a bull’s eye around it.

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