Break the goals Create the experience.

hello everyone

have you ever had a dream to achieve

something you worked for it and then

achieved it now

imagine how excited it felt after

achieving that dream

and for how long you felt that

excitement is crucial

now hold on to your thoughts of what you

felt

this something that happened with my

fourth dream

it was around 20 years ago

i was playing gully cricket in my shorts

and dirty t-shirt

in my village there were 15-20 kids

playing on the street suddenly everybody

stopped playing

and started looking at a distance i

looked around

and i saw a car coming

this was classic mosaic

it was sunny day and the car was shining

bright white

there were two gentlemen inside and they

were really happy

and why won’t they they own such an

amazing car that’s what i thought

they dropped off the car on the street

and went somewhere

immediately everybody on the street all

the kids

gathered around the car and started

looking inside i was one of them

i looked inside and it had an exquisite

interior with all wooden finish i had

never seen something like that before

whenever i used to see this car on the

street i used to see these two gentlemen

and they were all happy

and smiling this car definitely brought

a lot of attention and happiness to

their lives

i was so inspired this car became my

dream car

i took a note that whenever i will be

buying my first car

it was going to be this car it was

mercedes-benz e-250

it was german built w1241

time passed and the dream was foregone

a few years ago i decided to buy a new

car

and this was the time i wanted to buy

and make my dream come true but the car

was really expensive

so i searched for the cheapest option in

the pre-owned market

luckily i was able to find it out of old

and well maintained mercedes

this was also a german-made model

even with the cheapest option

it took away all my savings

my friends and family warned me not to

be foolish

and by a depreciating asset

but it was my conscious decision

to get that dream come true

it was my conscious decision to

accomplish and experience the dream

time and afford of a decade swept away

instantly but was it worth it

yes the experience was surreal

but it lasted only for an hour

what it is supposed to last longer right

or take care of the dream i was going to

accomplish

and i accomplished it

but it did not give me the happiness

that i wanted

a long term of happiness that i really

saw in those two guys

it didn’t work that way

so i thought is the feeling of

achievement so temporal

but the answer was no it was only when i

was traveling alone

when i was traveling with my friends and

family

it was a fun and exciting night but this

has nothing to do with my dream car

even with my friend’s regular car

the trip was fun and exciting so i took

a step back

and i thought of every other dream i’ve

ever dreamt of

i filtered out the ones which i

accomplished it

i noticed that the efforts

to accomplish a dream took far

longer time but after achieving it

the feeling lasted for a far lesser time

i always wanted to get into iam

when my entrance results were out and i

got selected and admitted to i am

calcutta

which is one of the leading mba

institutes in india

the feeling of excitement carried on

for only a few days but it took

several months of effort to reach to

that level

similarly with my friends in my college

group

we practiced for months and attempted

for guinness world record for longest

painting in the world by numbers

we achieved it but when we got this

certificate in hand

the surreal feeling short-lived

this happened with everything i achieved

the efforts took longer time

but the joy of achievement

was of far lesser time there was a

problem

there was a problem that i must solve

after thinking about it for many days it

triggered to me

that i have always been focused

towards achieving the end goal

i was so engulfed in achieving that

end dream that i lost track

of the entire journey i did not enjoy

that journey

so i decided i will be spending

two years of my time full of experiment

and trying to identify

how i can make that feeling live longer

say the efforts took an ear

then i should have at least an ear of

joy

in business terms the cost of time and

efforts

should bring long-term benefits and not

short-term gains

it was a simple calculation i

quit the corporate job

and now i was more focused on what

really mattered to me

and what mattered to me was to

accomplish my dream

but with a long-lived

sense of achievement of joy of happiness

i started working on accomplishing new

dreams

but this time i changed the dynamics

instead of focusing on the entire end

goal

i was more focused towards loving that

journey

towards enjoying the entire path i

always loved to paint

and wanted to exhibit my work in

galleries and art shows

but this time i was not more focused

towards getting my work exhibited to the

galleries

no but i was more focused on how i could

create and enjoy those visual experience

of joy of creating the artwork

as a result i was more focused

in getting to my style

that i was practicing it

eventually explode and

i had a body of work that was loved by

galleries

i was able to successfully exhibit my

works in india and abroad

recently in the month of april i

exhibited my work in walnut dubai

in the dubai world trade center

over this year i have shows planned for

london

singapore and mumbai

same thing happened with my hobby of

writing i always

loved and had a passion towards writing

stories

also now more focused was nurturing that

habit

it so happened that i applied for one of

the

india’s best writers program now

selected in top 60 writers

for one of the leading indian television

channel

hollywood writers came in and taught us

on some of the advanced story concepts

now

i’m working on a story and soon i

publish

on availability whatever caught my

attention

i tried to pursue those interests

because now i was more focused

towards enjoying the journey naturally

the fun and exciting part

was lasting longer

may that be corporate project or

painting writing

or anything i was more focused

towards getting that thing and loving

that part

rather than just the end goal

because of this of course my

concentration increased

and due to that my productivity also

increased

due to the change in pursuit of

happiness

my goals also started to change

now the fun ride

was my focus and not the dream car

my dream car automatically transitioned

into a fun ride with friends and family

when i was thinking about buying a car

i took a step back and thought about how

i can make it

perfect trip and that is how my dreams

also changed

and this did not happen with only my

personal life but also my professional

life

when i moved back to the corporate world

i was now more focused towards helping

my client

in achieving the best of their abilities

i was not focused on reaching the end

target that i was given

but what is the best that i can do of

the time that i have been given

these changes definitely helped me

in transforming myself in becoming much

more happier person and the joy of

achievement

lived longer

so my dear friends do something

each day that is going to bring you

closer to your dreams

find what really matters to you because

the sense

of achievement is temporary

but the journey that the

entire spectrum

of the life that brings in will stay

with you forever

these memories will stay with you

forever

so break the goals

and create the experience thank you