Now that your goals are established, it's time to go about strategizing with the mentality of a war general or Fortune 500 CEO.

This is Ray Dalio, billionaire Ray Dalio, and how he goes about solving problems.

He says, first you have to pick what you're going after, your goals.

Your choice of goals will determine your direction.

As you move towards them, you will encounter problems.

Some of those problems will bring you up against your own weaknesses.

How you react to the pain that causes is up to you.

If you want to reach your goals, you must be calm and analytical

so that you can accurately diagnose your problems, design a plan that will get you around them,

and do what's necessary to push through to results. Most people childlessly paint the future

with their intentions.

And then they drift into reality with a lot of hopes and dreams.

We instead are going to look fiercely at reality and plan against the obstacles that could stop us.

Most of our goals are not that complex. The problem is that when

life hits us with the challenges with the problems and obstacles, we're not prepared to handle them,

so we fail before we even gain momentum. Today, we problem-solve to create real-time solutions. Robert Green in the 48 Laws of Power says,

For the future, the motto is no days unalert.

Nothing should catch you by surprise because you are constantly imagining problems before

they arise.

Instead of spending your time dreaming of your plan's happy ending, you must work on calculating

every possible permutation and pitfall that might emerge in it.

The further you see, the more steps ahead you plan the more

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