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Story Title : Dog mind, lion mindThis is a very beautiful analogy in Zen.Picture there is a dog in front of you. And you are throwing bones for it to catch. For every bone you throw, the dog jumps with over-the-top enthusiasm and runs to catch it and get it back to you. Do this 1 time or a 100 times. The dog will treat every bone you throw with the same excitement level.Now, (for some strange reason), picture a lion sitting in front of you. Throw a bone for the lion to catch. It will look completely disinterested in running behind the bone you throw. Why? Because forget the one or two bones you throw, the lion can see an entire bag of bones in front of it. That is YOU. It does not follow the bones you throw, because it can see the bigger picture in front of it. Its focus is to eat the entire you, not the tiny bones that you throw.If something, (say, Donald Trump’s weird hairstyle or your friend’s WhatsApp status) catches your attention and distracts you, fair and good. It only proves you are human. It is but natural to get distracted. But it is at this point that you have a choice.You can either follow and run behind everything that distracts you (e.g. texting and asking your friend why he/she came up with such a break-up type status), like the dog. Or you can choose not to chase trivial things keeping the bigger opportunity in mind, like the lion. Keep your focus on the bigger things. See the greater picture.Being harsh with your mind and commanding it to focus will get you all the more distracted. Rather explain gently to your mind why finishing this particular chapter you are reading now is more important than browsing through weird selfies of your partying friends on Facebook (even though the latter seems amusing). Concentrate on the benefits of keeping yourself focused on the less interesting task at hand.P.S : Everything is ultimately a choice.

A scene from a super hit Telugu movie,Ala vaikunthapurramuloo.Allu arjun meet pooja hegde first time in lift and he started to stare her legs.She happened to be his boss and she punish him by sending him to extreme cold place and desert.After coming back, she says you are such a useless. Embarassed he regrets for his fate and tells her, How his father always says the same,That he can never get success in his life and he has born with that bad luck and all. So he too Start to think that his father maybe right.Pooja keeps a book on his head and tell him to observe. Now he couldn't look down and stare her legs, in the fear, book may fall down in the process.Pooja explains how the weight of the book he is carrying, doesn't let him to look down. That represents the Goal.( Images: google)The pressures and responsibilities to achieve something in our life never let us, to go run errands.. Like a target.If we focus on that weight , we will never get distracted by the other things we come across all our life.More the weight of the responsibility, more we think high.More hard work, we will achieve more in life.In life there are so many distractions from cricket, cinema, drugs, alcohol, etc etc.When we lose our focus and get attracted by these distractions we can never achieve our goals which we yearn. Finally we blame our luck and abandon our dreams in the middle.So why we need goals,Because we easily get distracted by so many things in the journey of success.Goals keeps us in focus and concentrate on the things we have to achieve. Goals never let us to sleep until we reach our destination. No goals, No achievement.Thanks for the question and thanks for reading🙏

This reminds me of a joke I recently heard.A drunk loses the keys to his house and is looking for them under a lamppost. A policeman comes over and asks what he’s doing.“I’m looking for my keys” he says. “I lost them over there”.The policeman looks puzzled. “Then why are you looking for them all the way over here?”“Because the light here is so much better”.We all look for things where the light is better, rather than where we’re more likely to find them.Don't just set specific goals. Resolve to be receptive to the opportunities life presents to you.Open your eyes. Say yes more often.Don’t wear blinders on your only adventure.---I elaborated upon this answer here: Dushka Zapata's answer to What is serendipity?