Leadership In Order To Establish The Grandiose Goal

Be prepared to conceive the essential meaning of your existence from the perspective of a gaze that guesses the sufferings that await you, being determined to endure them in the name of a destiny that assumes a history.

Columbus and Magellan taught us that more important than setting bold goals is to float straight ahead even if you see nothing in front of you.

And not only to move forward, but to pull yourself out of the clutches of the impossible, to face obstacles, to be poor, to be hit by the distrust of all people, to be abandoned by all friends, family, to be pursued only by dangers, to undertake countless absurd and fruitless journeys, to be at least 20 times on the brink of death, but to be lucky every time. Have patience for about 25 years full of trials, and only when there is no hope, only then maybe, just maybe, something will be revealed to you on the horizon.

When you have no friends, when everyone around you is against you, when you are the only one who still believes in a chimera, when you drift all the time with a completely damaged ship, you still have to know how to improvise and use many tricks… just to survive.

At some point you end up not believing in anyone or anything, all you have to do is tie a cannonball to each leg and throw yourself into the ocean, before you are brutally killed by your angry crew. And even when you are determined to take this step, moments before, to receive a saving news: behold… the shore.

Only then do you come to know God. You and only you. And God hides behind the truly grandiose deeds, made to show the difference between what is transient and what is lasting, between what we are as mere mortals and what we should have become in a higher plane of destiny, in a wider spiritual journey. Of course, without rebuking ourselves for having committed the “sin” of having risen to the heights of too high a claim.

That’s about it with grand goals. They are almost useless in the face of what awaits you in the future. So, before you set bold goals, it would be good to arm yourself with another 25-30 years of physical, mental and emotional torture.

You better be very strong. And, more than that, it would be good to have a lot of luck, because dangers and death will be permanently with you. Waiting… for you to give up.

Is there a God? And if there is, will He be by your side?

Does the uniqueness of the life you traverse put your motivation in doubt from the perspective of an amazing destiny that presents itself as a science and vision of the world, without being one or the other?

Everything happens after setting the goal that motivates you, but to the point where motivation can no longer support the achievement of the goal. We observe here, on the one hand, a kind of immeasurable ambition that helps some people to venture into the unknown, as far as possible from the reality of the world, on the other hand, a kind of inner boiling that leads man to the limits of what one can endure, when life becomes the mirror of death erased by God at the cost of self-forgetfulness.

Through the considerations I have just made, I intended to realize, at least in a provisional way, a characterization of the victorious approach seen as the all-encompassing thinking of a single character, of a stubborn visionary in the “great search” for the meaning of life and of God’s will.

This approach aims at the whole of a vision imposed by the course of history, by its difficult moments, through each approach destined to failure, not only the measurement of the final, glorious or hopeless results. Every approach aimed at the finality of the whole context of travel, from one place to another, includes in itself the man who sacrifices himself, putting him under the sign of doubt from the perspective of what he can endure and from the perspective of what he can discover.

I have tried to characterize the whole destiny of man from a perspective that seems to be a psychological one, since we have spoken so many times about the ambiguity of a demanding reality (simultaneously with its removal or approach from a fulminating discovery). And this amazing destiny, often difficult to understand, bears the traces of a defeated pain, of the sacrifice accepted without hesitation, pleasing only to God, in the name of an idea that does not take into account the uniqueness of the individual life of the victor and his fellows. It is the meaning of “carrying the cross”.

Carrying the cross is a reconstruction of the route taken with great difficulty, through the sacrifice accepted in the name of an idea that takes into account the uniqueness of the individual life of the victor who exercises his providence in the face of a great discovery.

This carrying of the cross presents itself as a science and vision of the world, without being one or the other, rather highlighting a tragic feeling in the face of existence, especially the sufferings to be endured, an overwhelming trembling of the heart, a commotion of life full of a deep tragic meaning. It brings us into a state of uncertainty in which we no longer know whether or not destiny is a science and a worldview.

For the soul of a victor, what is important is the supreme outcome, not the path full of suffering and danger, which he must follow under the guidance of a God who offers immortality only to the one who sacrifices everything for Him. It is from this angle that we must conceive the problem of existence, that is, from this risky and painful adventure of “carrying the cross”, an eternal fragment from the suffering of a God who belongs to no one, but also from the perspective of fulfilling the supreme existence, by finalizing a journey that no one can do in your stead.

We must also recognize that the essential features of a victor are the natural expression of a soul agitated by great, irreconcilable conflicts, which finds its redemption only at the end of the journey. Therefore, the difference between a winner and a loser is related to that look cast towards nowhere which seems to guess the sufferings that await him, yet he is determined to endure them, because this is his destiny fore-chosen by God. The victor willingly accepts, without revolt, a destiny full of trials and risks, by fulfilling the sacrifice. While the loser puts up vigorous resistance.

Leadership is the strength to rise to the height and responsibility of the position you hold under the burden of a pre-determined destiny, which has its ups and downs, its highs and lows, in a cycle of deed and response that instead of being an end is a continual beginning of revelation.

Leadership In Order To Establish The Grandiose Goal bears the traces of a deep pain, accepted voluntarily, without revolt, because this is the supreme fulfillment of a unique Destiny, decided before God.

Columbus’ idea was the promise of a new world, while Magellan’s idea was to find a new path to the new world. Something manifested in their souls as a gift from another world. They both rose above the passing moments, towards the moment of eternal duration. You get the impression that they are both the spontaneous creation of a single power, presented in a show about the captivity of a single soul on the border between two worlds, where the real and the unreal become impossible to separate.

The vision with which you can instruct your will as to what is urgently to be done in the name of the evolution of the world is precisely the vision with which God has endowed you to appreciate the distance between what is transient and what lasts in the great becoming of mankind. The goal is to establish a comparison between strong and weak spirits, following in the footsteps of a character who influences the divine work, accepting a destiny that seems to be repeated in each generation, in another version.