"[We can face life] even if it is arduous...if it leads towards a goal, if we can be sure of this goal, and if this goal is great enough to justify the effort of the journey." (Pope Benedict XVI in his second encyclical Spe salvi, "On Christian Hope", n.1)
"Make sure the goal you reach for is positive and brings hope for all people." (SUNRISE)
About goals
A goal must be something that you are interested in and want to achieve. It shouldn't be something that you are forced to do as some R-wing people would prefer to see. The goal must be realistic, yet adequately creative enough to be able to change yourself and society towards a more balanced way of living.
And the goal must be something you have never tried before in order to bring greater balance to yourself and society.
You should not be dictated by others to try a certain goal they already know the outcome will be. This will not change society. It will merely maintain the current system. Do something different, something that no one has ever tried before.
As John F. Kennedy said to the American public in the 1960s: 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country.'
And if you are able to achieve the goal (the first step to breaking free from your vicious poverty cycle), you will know if society is ready to change as well as yourself.
What type of goal should you reach for? The goals must be as positive as you can make them so that enough people including yourself can see the benefits.
Finding a goal you want to do for others has to be one of the most important steps to permanently solving poverty. It is the initial step towards solving any problem we face in life — in this case, poverty. You must have the desire to achieve something you have never tried before, no matter how small and insignificant it may seem, for you to crack open and break the vicious poverty cycle.
Once you find something to do, society must provide the support you need to achieve your goal.
NOTE: For society to give an individual something to do is not enough. The individual must see how it will help achieve the true goals of the individual he/she has chosen.
What kind of goal(s) should you create?
It doesn't matter what it is. There are an infinite number of positive goal(s) we can all implement. If you need ideas, society should permit people in poverty to visit places and see what people are doing and how they are doing it. Then you will get ideas of the sorts of goals you may wish to achieve for yourself.
The shear abundance of potential goals will ensure that you will never be lost to find at least one positive goal in life.
And why positive goals?
For people in poverty and with limited education and skills, there is only one law they need to follow for simplicity sake. All other seemingly complex laws created by humankind are there to help promote this fundamental law. If, as a civilised society, we have learned anything from the religious scriptures, psychologists and in watching other people and their interactions with all living things, the first and most fundamental principle we should all be following is the principle of love.
Love is just another term for being positive and showing that positive feeling towards others around you through the things you do.
Will your goals bring positive benefits to everyone in the long-term when you implement them?
But I am not creative enough to find a goal. What can I do?
That's okay. Society in its present form has been relying too heavily on rational L-brain skills for so long that not everyone will be immediately creative in finding a goal of their own.
If you are one of those people, then do the thing other L-brain people love to do, which is to try the things other people are already doing. The technique of emulating or becoming familiar with the things people do, how they dress and what they say will help you immensely to develop the confidence and skills in doing those things. When you become an expert, you may later have ideas of what else you can do for society by seeing what it is that's missing and needs to be done, perhaps even create your own niche market. And if not, certainly how to do those things you are doing now better will become increasingly apparent to you over time.
This is what creativity is about.
We see this kind of behaviour all the time when we observe how a son learns the skills of his father (eg. fishing, driving a car, kicking a football, learning to use a computer etc). Eventually the son will become better than his father because of his inherent creativity to find a better and more interesting way. The same is true for all L-brain people who need some inspiration by watching and learning from someone else.
If you need more help. Consider what some religious people do: they will create an image of an entity called God having various ideal and balanced qualities they want to emulate. So imagine yourself what the most balanced person would look like and then you will begin to know what it is you believe is important to reach for.
For millenia religious men and women have learned the power of God as a tool for reaching a goal. By imagining and implementing what we see through this goal, we can achieve long-lasting and meaningful relationships and achieve greater human development. This remains true so long as the men and women are not dictated to or influenced by other men and women who claim to know God (ie. false leaders). God is meant to be a personal concept for you to accept, understand, and apply in your life.
But you don't need to be associated with any specific religion created by humans to appreciate this power. Its purpose is clear. It is a goal for you to reach for and should be based on the principle of love to be seen as truly part of God.
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What happens when I find my goal?
Well done! You have achieved an important milestone in your life. You have something to work towards. Excellent!
In the ideal balanced world, finding a positive and worthwhile goal should be enough to give you access to all the things you need to survive and all the relevant services and "recycled" products required to help you achieve your goal(s).
Your goal is really your life's employment. You are the employer in control of your own destiny. And you are the employee going out to achieve it. You should be applying the principles of self-management at this point in achieving your goal(s).
Unfortunately our current world is not balanced. It is too L-brain. And as such you need to perform other employment to satisfy others of your worth before you can achieve what you think is important.
This is a shortcoming of a L-brain society, and certainly not an indication that you and your goal(s) are not worthy. It is just that society hasn't got enough faith to support what you wish to achieve.
So achieve your goal(s) quietly and in your spare time. And show what society is missing.
Should we impose our goal(s) on others?
What happens when we see others without a goal of their own? Should we impose our goal(s) on others?
It is better not to force people to accept our goal(s), no matter how right we think it is and how many people appear to benefit from it. Any attempt to do so would only reveal our insecurities to others and may create social problems. And anyway, for all we know, our own goal(s) could be highly imbalanced (ie. not the best solution to a given problem). So to avoid imposing our own bias on others through interference, we must allow people to use their own creativity to find a goal.
How do we entice people to find a goal?
As an incentive for everyone to start creating a goal, make sure people are guaranteed their survival needs will be met.
This means there should be no money provided. Just an electronic card for purchasing the essential items needed to survive every day. The essential items should include things like the highest quality milk, bread, fish, vegetables, fruit, a comfortable roof over your head, and access to education and the facilities to allow people to self-educate and achieve goals. The aim is to make sure people never have to worry about their survival needs. That should already be taken care of by society.
NOTE 1: This special card system should be flexible depending on the needs and circumstances of the individual.
NOTE 2: Food should be seen as a greater priority than money and it should be made readily available and at low cost and of the highest quality possible (ie. a healthy mind and body).
If society cannot meet these needs for you, there is a problem with society, not you. Perhaps there are too many greedy people selling the essential items you need to survive. Remember, society must be able to meet your needs. Knowing your needs will be met while choosing a goal you are interested in and feel confident you can achieve should be enough incentive for you to do things. Eventually, you will return the favour to society with your incredible new insights and ways of doing things which no one else has done before.
And that is what will save society enormous amounts of money in the long term.
At what point should we stop searching for a goal?
Most people with a goal to achieve will usually not stop working towards it for the rest of their lives. There would be no such thing as retirement if you don't want it.
If your goal has been achieved and is significant enough, there should be a point where society should acknowledge it by saying you do not have to persist with it or be asked to try more goals. Why? Usually the person who has achieved a goal will already have the skills to search for another goal on his/her own. But even if he/she doesn't, so what? Enough has been achieved. So let people have what they need to survive and be comfortable for the rest of their lives. Let them help other people achieve different goals, or to relax and contemplate things.
We have to bear in mind that there are literally millions of other people around the world who can also achieve goals and it is not necessary for one person to do absolutely everything for everyone else. The shear numbers of people in the world should be enough to see solutions found for so many problems and the implementation of such solutions made big enough to affect the whole planet in a positive way.
And this issue of spending megabucks on law enforcement as R-wing people are being forced to contend with today should become a thing of the past in the near future because people with goals whose needs are properly met don't have time to go around doing the wrong thing for society.
If there are goals and people have turn them into positive goals to reach for, there is no other path they can take except in the positive direction.
In the meantime, developing the support system for this approach will not be too hard to achieve and become a reality. There will be more than enough L-wing people whose goal(s) will be to create food and recycle it until more than enough food is available for everyone. If necessary, incentives should be provided to encourage people to move into the rural areas for support, easy access and contribution to the production of environmentally-sustainable foods for the masses.
Through a more balanced and sustainable system like this, we can on the one hand satisfy the ideas of R-wing people in the sense that people must find something to do (ie. find and achieve goal(s)) in return for support from society. And on the other hand, we satisfy the ideas of L-wing people in the sense that people will not be left behind fighting for their survival and so burden society in other areas.
You must remember that we have brought you into this world and have allowed others to do the same because we love you.
Hence it is our responsibility to see that we do not interfere unnecessarily in your affairs or impose our views and wishes on your life. You are an important person in society. You are special. You deserve the things you need to survive. And all we ask of you is to consider creating a path in your life which will benefit humanity in some tiny, yet significant way for all to appreciate. It means find a goal to reach for.
Because this is how you become a more balanced and loving person in this universe. And is the way we develop hope in all living things.
