Currently I’m feeling a little stuck with a goal I’m working on. It really just isn’t that appealing to me anymore, and, if I’m honest, I’d be happy to just put this one on the back burner for a while, aka give up.

But as I started thinking about this, I was reminded of an incident last year, and I realised that the problem here is that I’ve started looking at the windscreen again.

Let me explain.

In the spring of last year, I was driving my daughter to school (with my husband’s car) when a mess on the front windscreen caught my eye. As any decent, semi-OCD person would do, I started the process of vigorously water-squirting it and letting the wipers do their thing. It was a rather stubborn, dried-up mess, and it took some going to get it cleaned.

This riveting cleanup process, being utterly enthralling and all, caused me not to notice that the car was slowly but steadily veering off course. Staring at the windscreen had completely misaligned my focus and I just, and I say just, managed to straighten the car back in its lane without scraping the hubcap terribly.

So what’s the bottom line here?

Windscreens are made to look THROUGH. When you look through it, into what lies ahead, where you’re going, you keep safe and have direction.

If you look AT it, that’s when you get into trouble.

Reaching goals work similarly. You have to keep what lies ahead (where you’re going / the big picture) in mind to stay on track. If you don’t keep an eye on your dream or vision, the day to day activities of life will drain your passion and your motivation will wane.

That’s the true power looking through that windscreen - the power of seeing the future!