conception of something in its absolute perfection

Do you have an ideal? Do you see a vision of yourself as you want to be? Do you have a vision of your life as you would like it to be? Why not?

This is the most important step to make for improvements in life.

It's not easy. I live right in the middle of America and I am inundated all the time with advertisements designed to convince me that I must buy the product. There will always be new and better product which certainly complicates things. It's nonsense. It's not satisfying either.

To listen to what appears to be the culture all around me is worthless. To pay attention to the life that marketing presents me is to be lost. Sure, lots of people do, most people do, and many are frustrated and angry at the same time.

"We don't recognize either what hurts us or what helps us. All through our lives we blunder along and never stop, or even watch our step, because of this. But surely you can see how crazy it is to rush ahead in the dark. We seem set on getting ourselves called back from a greater distance and, although we don't know our overall goal, we continue to move as fast as we can in the direction we are going." - Seneca

Life comes at you. If you only knew where you were going you could use what life sends your way. You cannot know where you are going unless you hold a concept of your ideal.


Seneca quote from 'The Stoic Art of Living" by Tom Morris