Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

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https://www.stephencovey.com/7habits/7habits-habit2.php

Today we start off with the question of, "Are You Who You Want To Be When You Grow Up, Really?"
I can honestly say, today, I am not who I thought I was going to be, never in my life did I believe I was going to be 19 years old, happily married to a very loving, caring, and God honoring man, expecting a bouncing baby girl, with a full time job where I have a family of co-workers who care and love each other in a very real way. My plans for me at 19 were College, part time job to help get me by, no boy friend to distract me, and just hanging out with my friends.
However, thanks to many different situations that have occurred since I graduated High School I feel thoroughly fulfilled in where I am in my life right now. I may not be where I thought I was going to be, but I feel like I am exactly where I need to be. I see so many people that I graduated with, people with dreams and aspirations that are not as fulfilled as they thought they would be in just a couple years, and I praise God that I am where I am, and not where I wanted to be.
It is a very difficult thing to do, what Covey explains as, the Mental (first) creation, where you envision your goals, and bring that to the Physical (second) creation, where it is a real tangible thing. For someone like me it is a difficult thing to do, because my ideas are always changing, and my goals and time lines are never written in anything stronger than play doh. However, I do believe it is vitally important for those goals and aspirations to be made. I believe you should always be reaching for something, aspiring for the next goal, and expanding your passion for anything that applies to yourself. It is a scary place to be if you find yourself with no goals, hopes, dreams, or aspirations, because if you are not reaching for something or striving to achieve anything at all then you have no more passion, you are essentially dead. So even if you are like me, and your mental blue prints never turn into sky scrapers, remember that it is important to, at least, doodle those blue prints down so that you can mark your mental process to your next work of art.