Can You Identify Your Goal in 5 Words or Less?

I couldn't before, but I can, now.

So many blog posts go on at length in an attempt to define a concept, goal, or belief. I should know. I've been doing it myself. As you know, I tend to ramble. And I've been trying for months now to provide my skeptical friends and family with a sufficient explanation of why I find the concept of having a J.O.B. so offensive and out of alignment with my true nature.

I've tried to describe this state of producing things from my heart and soul, of enjoying my efforts, of having more than one source of income and still being highly successful (as in, no need to book me a couch at your place for the month, thanks). I've come up with a long list of the myriad ways in which money can be had other than from a J.O.B. I've tried to dispel the myth my parents told me—without a job, you will not be able to survive.

Along the way, I have (as you probably also have) run across quite a number of folks who are defying that myth daily—people like Portable Empire's Pat O'Bryan or The Attractor Factor's Joe Vitale—as well as people who are doing what they love no matter how crazy it might sound and enjoying amazing success doing it, like my horsemanship mentor Pat Parelli.

It's proof that you don't need a trust fund or a lottery win to have it all.

You've probably tried your hand at affirmations. If so, then you are aware that brevity is the key to success, because it's easier to focus on a brief statement than a long-winded ramble. You know that it's easier to visualize a focused concept akin to remembering one scene than to try to replay the entire movie in your head. You also know how difficult it can be to condense into a short sentence the Ultimate Goal you're trying to achieve.

I'm with you there. I've struggled with the same thing.

Until today.

All I did was read another's blog post. I'm giving a big shout-out to Pat O'Bryan for summing it up for me in his own ramble.

Drumroll, please.

My Ultimate Goal is to have...

"multiple streams of passive income"

That's it. That's all it takes to define my goal. Five little words.

Passive income, meaning I don't have a J.O.B. by definition but I still have the income; and multiple streams meaning it comes from my "various creative endeavors and not one takes primary focus". With multiple streams of passive income, I'm free to pursue all of my activities and enjoy my life rather than waste my precious years working for someone else, doing someone else's "thing", making someone else's dreams come true while mine die on the vine.

All right. I have my goal. I'm heading off now to visualize my goal and set my intention for having "multiple streams of passive income". Thanks for listening.

PS: When you can define your goal in five words or less, please share it with me in the comments.