Through your window

To me, the quote above speaks of the need for motivation, ownership, discipline and effort.

Feeling "trapped or locked" in my life is anathema to me - life is supposed to be something amazing, fulfilling and meaningful, not to mention happy and enjoyable, and so I refuse to be a passenger, or worse still, sit in place, inactive and ineffective in respect of designing and creating my life my way.

I live in the present, I enjoy it and have a pretty great life but that's because of what I did before the present came around - I've planned for a good life and a good future and still do. Sure, I don't know what's around the corner; I could die anytime but if I don't plan for a future, when it comes, it'd not be a very good one. I know this because I'm currently living a future (my present) which I planned for in the past "and it's a legit present."

I feel like I'm looking through a window, metaphorically speaking, and into my future when I plan for the things I want, places I want to go, who I want to be, how I want to grow and develop, whom I want around me and so on. In the present, it's what I see through that window and what I do about it that matters...or will matter when that future comes.

Having vision, the vision to see one's future and oneself within that future, is a critically important step in designing and creating a meaningful, happy and fulfilled life. What about you?

What do you see "through your window" and what's in place to move yourself to it and to that meaningful and fulfilled life you want? (Assuming you want a meaningful and fulfilled life of course.)

Feel free to comment below with how you perceive your future, what it may hold for you, how you will attain those things, what are the roadblocks and how are you going to work around those roadblocks. Maybe explain what you did on the past to deliver a better present. Or explain why you're happy to remain trapped or locked in your current reality and why you fail to plan ahead.