The Christ told us that our bodies were a Living Temple, a place wherein God could reside.  Let’s use this as an example for our goals in this life.

1. Are our goals living or dead?

Consider what you want in life, is the end goal worth having?  Is it alive, will it bring vibrancy and light to your life?  What good is it to have everything you ever wanted, only to find out that the price you paid to get there was too great?  If you’re not happy on the path to your Happiness, then you’re probably on the wrong path.  Make sure what you want is indeed, what you want.

2. What is our Blueprint?

As any builder can tell you, if you don’t know what the building is supposed to look like, then you can’t build it.  Who or what are you modeling your goals after?

This is not the place to be cheap or modest… Shoot for the moon here.  Find the best at what you want and devour everything you can find about them and what they did to achieve the thing you want.  An example… if you want to be successful in real estate, don’t model yourself after the agent from Century 21, model yourself after Donald Trump… if you want to play in the NBA, don’t model yourself after your high school coach, model yourself after Michael Jordan.

Don’t mistake what I’m saying though, you can still learn a lot from the high school coach and the local real estate agent, in fact, that’s a great place to start, but what I’m saying is pick a Blueprint of Perfection for whatever goal you may have.

3. How is a Temple built?

Here’s where most people fall away… It’s built one stone at a time.  You create your body one cheeseburger or one vegetable at a time… you wanna know why people are dying all around you?  Because they eat flesh that is dead… and as we all learned as children, you are what you eat, and one dead stone after another, they have  created a temple of death around them.

In the same way, you create your goal one step or mini-goal at a time.  You’re not going to become a millionaire, or an enlightened being, or an amazing lover and spouse and parent overnight.  Some people are able to work faster than others.  It depends on where you are when you begin.  Some have more natural resources than you might… which is why there’s no time like right now to begin.