How many times have you heard the expression that most people spend more time planning their vacation than they do planning their lives. I would expand that expression by adding that most people spend more time "thinking" about their vacation than they do thinking about what's important in their life.

While rest and relaxation are a must in living a balanced life, it's not what we were created to do. After all, the Master Creator took his RR (Rest and Recreation) on the seventh day, only after six days of "definitely directed thought."

Wallace D. Wattles, wrote "There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from that of sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world." And yet it is the first and primary labor of achievement.

What is your life's purpose or your personal mission statement? Is it written down? Do you review it and think about it often? Is your life organized around your purpose and a set of goals that support that purpose?

Without purpose and goals - definitely directed thought - you are like the proverbial "ship without a rudder." There is power in your purpose and in your goals. It is the power that takes you over obstacles, the fuel that propels you toward the life you envision.

你有多少次聽(tīng)到大多數(shù)人總是在談?wù)撊绾味燃?，而不是?guī)劃生活本身。而且，很多人總是在“想著”度假，而不去想生活中重要的事情。

盡管休閑和放松是平衡生活的必需品，然而我們活著并不是為了這些，造物主把休息日放在第七天，放在“明確直接的構(gòu)思”的日子之后。

華萊士·D·沃特爾斯寫(xiě)道：“沒(méi)有任何一種體力勞動(dòng)能使大多數(shù)人畏縮不前，但持久連續(xù)地思考卻能做到這一點(diǎn)；它是這世界上最困難的工作?！眳s也是為取得成功所做的首要和基本的勞動(dòng)。

你的生活目的和人生使命是什么呢？你把它寫(xiě)下來(lái)了嗎？你是否重新審視過(guò)，經(jīng)常思考這件事呢？你的生活都是圍繞這個(gè)目標(biāo)進(jìn)行的嗎？你是否設(shè)置一系列小目標(biāo)來(lái)實(shí)現(xiàn)這個(gè)大目標(biāo)呢？

缺乏志向和目標(biāo)（明確直接的構(gòu)思），你就會(huì)像諺語(yǔ)中說(shuō)的“無(wú)舵之船”。志向和目標(biāo)給人以動(dòng)力，幫你克服困難，推動(dòng)你駛向理想的彼岸。

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