When discussing the many empires that this world of ours has seen, the most famous is probably the Roman empire which lasted over a thousand years. Did you know however that that Mongol empire of Ghengis Khan and company of the 1200’s was the largest world empire in terms of pure land mass? The Mongol empire comprised an astounding 17% of the entire land surface of the earth. By comparison, the Roman empire comprised 3%. How was this possible for Ghengis Khan and the Mongols (sounds like a musical group – OK everyone let’s give it up for Ghengis Khan and the Mongols) to accomplish this. It all started from a tribe of seven including his mother, in Outer Mongolia. The Mongols would go on to conquer and subjugate everything and everyone in their path stretching from Pacific shores of China to Hungary in eastern Europe. At one point, it was even thought that the Mongol empire would stretch all the way from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean.
Vision…..Intention…..Faith
If you make the choice to explore further about this staggering feat, you will find that the Mongols had three overriding facets to their success: vision, intention and faith. Their vision was crystal clear – the world having just one ruler, the Mongols. Their intention was just as clear – to fulfill their vision by conquering and subjugating everything and everyone in their path. The final ingredient in their recipe was their faith. In the group mind of the Mongols, they were already rulers of the world. Their credo was conquer and subjugate or ——-. Oh that’s right, there was no “or”. There was no “try”. Absolutely everything was on the line, their families, their possessions, everything. They utilized everything at their disposal, conventional and non-conventional, traditional and non-traditional to make their vision their reality.
2021
As you mark down your new year’s resolutions for 2021, refrain from marking them down as part of a wimpy wish list. Mark them down with a crystal clear vision of your desires. Edit the list to a hard core of desires. Mark them down with a relentless, ferocious intent to make it happen. Then take that critical final step, without doubt the hardest step, to actually believe and feel as if your desire is already real right now. Clearly, see, feel, smell, hear, touch your vision. If your mind keeps telling you that it can’t happen because of this and because of this and oh yeah, especially because of that, then just make the choice to spend some time feeling the happiness, feeling the joy, feeling the bliss, without specifying anything but the fact that wonderful things are happening to you and for you right now. It will not hurt you. You will receive one thousand percent more benefit than spending that same amount of time and energy fretting and worrying. Just do it. Grow your faith. What you must do is simple but what you must do is not easy. You must make the choice to work on it. If you “feel it”, you will “real it”, just like Ghengis did.