Targeted Thinking: The Mental Discipline That Closes The Gap

The First Pillar in Your Journey of Becoming

What one can be, one must be." (Abraham Maslow)

When I was in Nairobi, hungry and discouraged, staring at those eight words from Churchill, I made a decision. Not just to never give up, but to never again allow my thinking to drift aimlessly. I committed to becoming someone who thinks with purpose, focus, and discipline.
That decision changed everything.

It brought me to America. It helped me build Muumba Web Digital. It’s allowed me to serve hundreds of entrepreneurs who are now closing their own gaps.
Now I’m inviting you into the same decision.

2026 can be the year everything changes. Not because of luck or circumstances, but because you developed the mental discipline that makes transformation inevitable.

We exist to disrupt norms, including the norm of unrealized potential. At Muumba Web Digital, we don’t just build websites and run marketing campaigns. We exist to activate potential, to help leaders and entrepreneurs step into their fullest selves.

Your destiny contains within itself the power to make it happen. You just need to think about it right.

Introduction: The Gap That Defines Your Destiny

There’s a gap in your life right now. You feel it every morning when you wake up. It’s the distance between who you are today and who you know you’re capable of becoming. Between your current reality and your fullest potential. Between the business you’re running and the empire you envision. Between the life you’re living and the legacy you’re meant to leave.

This gap isn’t a flaw. It’s not evidence of failure. It’s proof that your entelechy, that fire within calling you to become, is still burning. The gap exists because you’re alive with possibility, aware of your potential, and honest enough to acknowledge you haven’t fully actualized it yet.

But here’s the challenge: Most people carry this gap their entire lives. They feel the tension between who they are and who they could be, yet they never close it. They die with their music still inside them, their potential unrealized, their destiny unfulfilled.

Why?

Because closing the gap requires more than desire. It requires more than motivation, inspiration, or even determination. Closing the gap requires a specific mental discipline that most people never develop: Targeted Thinking.

Welcome to CloseTHEGAP2026, a year-long journey dedicated to actualizing your potential. This is the first article in our monthly series, and we’re starting with the foundation: the mental discipline that makes everything else possible.

What is Targeted Thinking?

Targeted Thinking is the deliberate, focused, and systematic mental discipline of aligning your thoughts with your destiny.

It’s not positive thinking. It’s not wishful thinking. It’s not even strategic thinking alone.
Targeted Thinking is the practice of consciously directing your mental energy toward the specific outcomes, behaviors, and identity shifts required to close the gap between your current self and your destined self.

Think of your mind as a powerful search engine. Most people leave it on default settings, randomly processing whatever information appears in their environment: social media, news headlines, other people’s opinions, fears, doubts, distractions. Their thoughts scatter in a thousand directions, producing diffuse, unfocused results.

Targeted Thinking reprograms that search engine. It trains your mind to:

Filter out mental noise that doesn't serve your becoming
Focus intensely on the thoughts, ideas, and insights that accelerate your growth
Process information strategically through the lens of your destiny
Generate solutions aligned with your highest potential
Build mental pathways that support your transformation

When Winston Churchill said, “Never give up. Never, ever. Never give up,” he wasn’t just speaking about persistence. He was demonstrating Targeted Thinking. His mind was locked onto a singular target: Britain’s survival and victory. Every thought, every decision, every speech was filtered through that lens.

When Martin Luther King Jr. declared, “I have a dream,” he wasn’t fantasizing. He was practicing Targeted Thinking. His mental energy was deliberately directed toward a specific vision of racial equality, and he refused to let his mind be pulled away from that target.

When the lion cub we discussed in our article on entelechy survived against impossible odds, instinct guided his thoughts toward one target: survival and dominance. His mind didn’t wander to fear or despair. It focused on the next meal, the next safe location, the next opportunity to grow stronger.

Targeted Thinking is what separates those who close the gap from those who merely dream about it.

Why Targeted Thinking Matters: The Cost of Mental Drift

Let me be direct: You cannot become who you’re meant to be with an undisciplined mind. The statistics are sobering. Research shows the average person has between 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts per day. Of those thoughts:

This means most people spend their entire lives on mental autopilot, recycling the same limiting thoughts, worries, and distractions day after day, year after year.

Here’s what happens without Targeted Thinking:

1. Mental Energy Gets Scattered

Your mind is your most valuable resource, but without discipline, that energy disperses across dozens of unproductive channels: scrolling social media, consuming news you can’t control, worrying about things that may never happen, reliving past failures, comparing yourself to others.

Result: You end each day mentally exhausted but with nothing meaningful to show for your mental expenditure.

2. You Default to Your Current Identity

Your current thoughts continuously recreate your current reality. If you’re thinking the same thoughts as yesterday, you’re rebuilding the same version of yourself. The gap doesn’t close because your thinking hasn’t evolved.

Result: Years pass, and you’re fundamentally the same person, just older.

3. External Forces Program Your Mind

When you’re not intentionally directing your thoughts, external influences do it for you: advertisers, algorithms, media narratives, other people’s agendas, cultural conditioning.

Result: You spend your life pursuing goals you never actually chose, serving a vision that isn’t yours.

4. Decision Fatigue Dominates

Without mental focus, you waste cognitive bandwidth on trivial decisions while avoiding the crucial ones that would close the gap.

Result: You’re busy but not productive, active but not advancing.

5. The Gap Widens

Here’s the paradox: As you age, your potential often increases (you gain experience, resources, connections, wisdom), but without Targeted Thinking, the gap between who you are and who you could be actually grows wider.

Result: The regret intensifies, and the fire within starts to dim.

This is why Targeted Thinking isn’t optional. It’s the prerequisite for actualizing your entelechy.

Why Targeted Thinking Is Essential for Closing the Gap

Abraham Maslow observed that self-actualization, reaching your fullest potential, requires what he called “focused consciousness.” You cannot drift into your destiny. The gap closes only through deliberate, directed mental effort.

Here’s why Targeted Thinking is non-negotiable:

1. Your Thoughts Create Your Reality

This isn’t mysticism; it’s neuroscience. Your brain cannot distinguish between a vividly imagined experience and a real one. When you consistently think about specific outcomes, your brain begins creating neural pathways that support those outcomes. Your subconscious mind works 24/7 to make your dominant thoughts a reality.

Targeted Thinking ensures your dominant thoughts align with your destiny, not your fears.

2. Destiny Demands Precision

Your entelechy isn’t vague. The oak tree inside the acorn isn’t a generic plant; it’s a specific species with specific characteristics. Similarly, your destiny has specific requirements. You need specific skills, specific relationships, specific resources, and specific character development.

Targeted Thinking focuses your mental energy on these specific requirements.

3. Obstacles Require Strategic Mental Processing

Every entrepreneur, every leader, every person pursuing their potential faces obstacles. The difference between those who overcome and those who quit isn’t circumstances; it’s how they process those circumstances mentally.

Targeted Thinking reframes obstacles as data points, stepping stones, and growth opportunities rather than stop signs.

4. Consistency Compounds

Small, consistent actions compound into extraordinary results over time. But consistency is impossible without mental consistency. You can’t take consistent action toward your goals if your thoughts keep pulling you in different directions.

Targeted Thinking creates the mental consistency that enables behavioral consistency.

5. Identity Transformation Begins in the Mind

To close the gap, you must become a different person. Not just do different things, but be different. Identity transformation always precedes external transformation. Before you become a successful entrepreneur, you must think like one. Before you build the empire, you must think like an empire builder.

Targeted Thinking is the mechanism of identity transformation.

The Five Pillars of Targeted Thinking

Targeted Thinking isn’t a single practice; it’s a comprehensive mental discipline built on five foundational pillars:

Pillar 1: Clarity of Vision

The Foundation: You cannot target what you cannot see clearly.

Targeted Thinking begins with absolute clarity about your destination. Not vague wishes like “I want to be successful” or “I want to make more money,” but a specific, vivid, detailed vision of:

Key Question: Can you describe your vision so clearly that someone else could paint a picture of it?

Practice:

Example of Vague vs. Clear:

Without clarity, your mind doesn’t know what to target. With clarity, every thought can be evaluated: Does this move me toward my vision or away from it?

Pillar 2: Intentional Focus

The Discipline: Where attention goes, energy flows.
In a world engineered to steal your attention,

Targeted Thinking requires ruthless protection of your mental focus.

This pillar has three components:

A. Single-Tasking Over Multitasking

Contrary to popular belief, multitasking is cognitively impossible. What people call multitasking is actually rapid task-switching, which drains mental energy and produces inferior results. Targeted Thinking demands single-tasking: giving your complete mental attention to one important thing at a time.

B. Deep Work Blocks

Reserve specific times for deep, uninterrupted thinking about your vision, strategy, and growth. No phone. No notifications. No interruptions. Just you and your highest-priority thinking.

C. Elimination of Mental Clutter

Regularly audit your mental inputs. What are you consuming daily (media, content, conversations) that doesn’t serve your becoming? Eliminate ruthlessly.

Key Question:

If someone monitored your thoughts for 24 hours, would they conclude you’re serious about your vision?

Practice:

Remember: You have approximately 16 waking hours daily. Your destiny is competing for your mental attention against entertainment, news, social media, gossip, worry, and a thousand other distractions. Intentional focus is how you ensure your destiny wins.

Pillar 3: Strategic Self-Talk

The Power: You are in constant conversation with yourself. That conversation is either programming your success or sabotaging it.

Strategic Self-Talk is the practice of consciously controlling your internal dialogue to align with your identity as someone who is closing the gap.

Most people’s self-talk is:

Targeted Thinking flips this script:

A. Identity-Based Affirmations

Don’t just affirm outcomes (“I will make a million dollars”). Affirm identity (“I am becoming the type of person who builds million-dollar enterprises”).

B. Solution-Oriented Language

Replace “This is impossible” with “How can I make this possible?” Replace “I don’t know how” with “I’m learning how.” Replace “I failed” with “I’m gathering data for future success.”

C. Future-Paced Vocabulary

Speak to yourself as if your future self is coaching your current self. What would the version of you who has already closed the gap say to you right now?

Key Question:

Would you hire the person your self-talk describes?

Practice:

Create 5-10 identity-based affirmations and repeat them daily
Catch and reframe negative self-talk immediately (don't let it loop)
Record a 2-minute "Future Self Coaching" audio where your successful future self gives present-you advice
Before major decisions, ask: "What would [your future successful self] decide here?"

Scientific backing: Research in neuroplasticity shows that repeated self-talk literally rewires your brain, strengthening neural pathways that support your dominant thoughts.

Pillar 4: Mental Rehearsal

The Accelerator: Your brain gets better at what it practices, real or imagined.

Athletes have known this for decades: mental rehearsal (visualization) improves performance almost as much as physical practice. Olympic athletes, Navy SEALs, and elite performers use mental rehearsal because it works.

Mental rehearsal is the practice of vividly imagining yourself successfully executing the behaviors, decisions, and actions required to close the gap.

Why it works: When you mentally rehearse, your brain activates the same neural networks as when you actually perform the action. You’re literally practicing at the neurological level, building competence before you face the real situation.

Three Types of Mental Rehearsal:

A. Process Rehearsal

Visualize yourself performing specific tasks successfully. If you’re preparing for a sales presentation, mentally rehearse delivering it confidently, handling objections smoothly, closing the deal. Feel the emotions. See the client’s positive reactions.

B. Challenge Rehearsal

Visualize yourself facing obstacles and overcoming them. Don’t just imagine perfect scenarios. Imagine challenges (cash flow problems, difficult clients, setbacks) and see yourself responding with wisdom, resilience, and creativity.

C. Identity Rehearsal

Visualize yourself living as the person you’re becoming. See yourself making decisions from that elevated identity. Walking, talking, thinking as someone who has already closed the gap.

Key Question:

How many minutes per day are you mentally rehearsing success vs. mentally rehearsing worry?

Practice:

Pro tip: Engage all senses in your mental rehearsal. Don’t just see it; hear it, feel it, even smell it. The more vivid, the more powerful the neurological imprint.

Pillar 5: Reflective Thinking

The GPS: Regular reflection keeps you on course.

Targeted Thinking isn’t just forward-looking; it requires strategic backward-looking reflection to assess progress, extract lessons, and adjust course.

Without reflection, you repeat mistakes, miss insights, and drift off course without realizing it.

Three Levels of Reflection:

A. Daily Reflection (5-10 minutes)

B. Weekly Review (20-30 minutes)

C. Monthly Strategic Thinking (60-90 minutes)

Am I closer to my vision than I was 30 days ago? (Measure progress)
What's working that I should do more of? (Amplify)
What's not working that I should stop? (Eliminate)
What new thinking or skills do I need to develop? (Evolve)
Is my vision still accurate, or does it need refinement? (Update)

Key Question:

Are you making the same mistakes you made six months ago? (If yes, you’re not reflecting enough.)

Practice:

Keep a "Thinking Journal" (separate from a regular journal)
Use structured prompts (the questions above) rather than free-form writing
Review your journal monthly to spot patterns
Share insights with an accountability partner or mentor
Is my vision still accurate, or does it need refinement? (Update)

Warning: Reflection without action is just rumination. Always end reflection sessions with specific commitments for change.

How Targeted Thinking Accelerates Potential Actualization

Now that we understand what Targeted Thinking is and its five pillars, let’s explore how it actually accelerates the closing of your gap.

1. It Creates Cognitive Alignment

When your thoughts align with your vision, your subconscious mind becomes your ally rather than your saboteur. Your brain’s Reticular Activating System (RAS) begins filtering reality to show you opportunities, resources, and connections that serve your destiny. You start noticing what was always there but previously invisible.

Example: When you decide to buy a specific car, suddenly you see that car everywhere. It was always there; your RAS just started highlighting it. Targeted Thinking does this for your destiny-related opportunities.

2. It Reduces Decision Fatigue

With clear, targeted thinking, decisions become simpler. You have a filter: “Does this align with my vision and move me toward closing the gap?” If yes, pursue it. If no, decline. No agonizing. No second-guessing.

This mental efficiency frees cognitive resources for execution rather than deliberation.

3. It Builds Psychological Resilience

Targeted Thinking reframes obstacles. Instead of seeing setbacks as proof you should quit, you see them as data points for course correction. This mental reframe is what allowed Churchill to endure defeat after defeat before victory, and King to face constant threats without abandoning his dream.

The shift: From “Why is this happening to me?” to “What is this teaching me?”

4. It Accelerates Skill Development

When you’re thinking targetedly about specific skills or knowledge you need, your brain prioritizes learning in those areas. You become a more effective learner because you’re learning with purpose, not just consuming information randomly.

5. It Creates Behavioral Consistency

Most people’s behavior is erratic because their thinking is erratic. One day they’re fired up and working hard. The next day they’re discouraged and scrolling social media. Targeted Thinking creates the mental stability that produces consistent, compounding action.

6. It Attracts Aligned Relationships

Your thoughts influence your energy, your communication, and what you talk about. When you’re thinking targetedly about your destiny, you naturally attract people who resonate with that vision. Conversely, relationships misaligned with your growth naturally fade.

7. It Shortens the Timeline

Perhaps most importantly, Targeted Thinking compresses the time it takes to close the gap. While others spend years wandering mentally, you’re making efficient progress because every thought is an investment in your becoming.

Remember the lion cub: He didn’t have time to waste on unfocused thinking. Survival demanded mental efficiency. Your destiny demands the same.

Practical Implementation: Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Exercises

Theory without practice is useless. Here’s how to implement Targeted Thinking systematically:

Daily Practices (15-30 minutes total)

Morning Routine (10-15 minutes):

Vision Review (2 minutes): Read your vision statement aloud. Close your eyes and visualize it vividly.Daily Practices (15-30 minutes total)
Identity Affirmations (3 minutes): Speak your identity-based affirmations. Feel them as truth.
Daily Intention (2 minutes): Ask: "What's the ONE thing I can think about and do today that will most effectively close the gap?"
Mental Rehearsal (5 minutes): Visualize yourself successfully executing today's most important task.
Strategic Self-Talk (3 minutes): Speak to yourself as your future self coaching present-you.

Evening Routine (5-10 minutes):

Daily Reflection (5 minutes): Use the daily reflection questions (What worked? What didn't? What will I do differently tomorrow? Am I thinking like someone closing the gap?)
Gratitude And Evidence (3 minutes): Write three pieces of evidence from today that you're making progress toward your vision.
Tomorrow's Target (2 minutes): Identify tomorrow's primary mental target (what will you think about most intentionally?).

Throughout the Day:

Weekly Practices (60-90 minutes)

Sunday Strategy Session (60 minutes):

Sunday Strategy Session (60 minutes):

1. Last Week Review (15 minutes):

2. Gap Analysis (15 minutes):

3. Next Week Planning (15 minutes):

4. Mental Rehearsal (10 minutes):

5. Adjustment (5 minutes):

Monthly Practices (2-3 hours)

Monthly Thinking Intensive (2-3 hours):

Schedule a half-day (or at minimum, 2-3 uninterrupted hours) once per month for strategic thinking. Go somewhere different (not your usual workspace). Bring your thinking journal. No phone. No interruptions.

Agenda:

1. Progress Audit (30 minutes):

2. Learning Extraction (20 minutes):

3. Mental Inventory (20 minutes):

4. Vision Refinement (20 minutes):

5. Strategy Thinking (30 minutes):

6. Identity Work (20 minutes):

7. Visualization & Commitment (10 minutes):

Overcoming the Obstacles to Targeted Thinking

Let’s be honest: If Targeted Thinking were easy, everyone would do it, and everyone would be actualizing their potential. The reality is that several obstacles will try to derail your mental discipline:

Obstacle 1: The Comfort of Mental Drift

The Challenge

Your mind naturally prefers the path of least resistance. Targeted Thinking requires effort. Mental drift is effortless.

The Solution

Remember: The lion cub couldn’t afford mental drift. Neither can you if you’re serious about closing the gap.

Obstacle 2: The Pull of Immediate Gratification

The Challenge

Your brain is wired for immediate rewards. Social media, entertainment, and distractions provide instant dopamine hits. Targeted Thinking requires delayed gratification.

The Solution

Build a compelling "why" that makes delayed gratification emotionally worthwhile
Create small, immediate wins in your Targeted Thinking practice (daily check-offs, progress tracking)
Reduce access to distractions during thinking time (no phone, no internet)
Celebrate consistency, not just outcomes

Reframe: Every session of Targeted Thinking is a deposit in your destiny account. It compounds with interest.

Obstacle 3: Negative Thought Loops

The Challenge:

Your brain has neural pathways for negative thinking built over years or decades. These pathways are like highways; positive thinking pathways might still be dirt roads.

The Solution:

Don't try to eliminate negative thoughts (that paradoxically strengthens them)
Instead, immediately follow negative thoughts with reframes: "That's an old thought pattern. Here's my new one..."
Build new neural pathways through repetition (1000+ repetitions of new thoughts)
Be patient: Neuroplasticity takes time

Scientific fact: It takes approximately 66 days of consistent practice to form a new habit. Stick with it.

Obstacle 4: Lack of Immediate Results

The Challenge:

Targeted Thinking creates results over time, not overnight. In a culture of instant everything, this feels frustrating.

The Solution:

Shift metrics: Measure consistency of practice, not just outcomes
Trust the process: The oak tree is growing even when you can't see it yet
Document small evidence of progress (journal entries, progress photos, metrics)
Remember the compound effect: Small, consistent efforts produce exponential results

Perspective shift: You didn’t build your current reality overnight. You won’t transform it overnight either.

Obstacle 5: External Skepticism

The Challenge:

When you commit to Targeted Thinking and start talking differently, thinking differently, and acting differently, some people around you will be uncomfortable. They’ll mock, question, or try to pull you back to “normal.”

The Solution:

Protect your mental environment fiercely
Limit sharing your vision with skeptics
Find or create community with people on similar journeys
Let your results speak louder than your words
Remember: Their skepticism is about their limitations, not yours

Truth: Those who criticize your growth are usually those who’ve given up on their own.

The Neuroscience Behind Targeted Thinking

For those who want to understand the science, here’s what happens in your brain when you practice Targeted Thinking:

Neuroplasticity: Your Brain Rewires

Your brain physically changes based on your thoughts. Repeated thought patterns strengthen neural connections (neurons that fire together, wire together). Targeted Thinking builds mental highways for success-supporting thoughts.

Reticular Activating System (RAS): Your Mental Filter

Your RAS determines what information your conscious mind notices. By targeting specific thoughts, you program your RAS to filter reality for opportunities, resources, and connections aligned with your vision.

Prefrontal Cortex Activation: Executive Function

Targeted Thinking engages your prefrontal cortex (executive function center), which is responsible for decision-making, impulse control, and long-term planning. Regular practice strengthens this area.

Reduced Amygdala Activation: Fear Management

When you practice mental rehearsal and strategic self-talk, you reduce activity in your amygdala (fear center), making you more resilient in the face of obstacles.

Dopamine Release: Motivation Reinforcement

When you visualize success or achieve small wins in your thinking practice, your brain releases dopamine, reinforcing the behavior and making it more likely you’ll continue.

Bottom line: Targeted Thinking isn’t just philosophy or positive thinking. It’s neuroscience. You’re literally rewiring your brain for success.

Real-World Examples: Targeted Thinking in Action

Let me share some stories (names changed for privacy) of entrepreneurs I’ve worked with who transformed their businesses and lives through Targeted Thinking:

Story 1: Sarah's Marketing Agency

Sarah came to me running a struggling marketing agency. She was working 80-hour weeks, stressed, barely profitable. Her thoughts were dominated by worry: “I’m going to lose this client,” “I’m not charging enough,” “There’s too much competition.”

The Shift: We implemented Targeted Thinking. Her new mental target: “I’m becoming the type of agency owner who attracts premium clients who value expertise and pay premium prices.”

Daily practices:

Results within 6 months:

The key: Her external reality shifted only after her internal reality (thinking) shifted first.

Story 2: Marcus's Construction Business

Marcus had a small construction business but dreamed of scaling to a regional operation. His limiting thought pattern: “I don’t have the education or connections to build something big. I’m just a contractor.”

The Shift: Targeted Thinking focus: “I’m becoming a construction industry leader who builds multi-million dollar projects and employs 50+ people.”

Key practices:

Results within 12 months:

The transformation: He didn’t become a bigger business owner because he got lucky. He became a bigger business owner because he first became that person in his mind.

Story 3: Jennifer's Life Coaching Practice

Jennifer was a talented life coach stuck at $30K/year, constantly undercharging and overdelivering. Her mental block: “If I charge more, I’m greedy. Real coaches serve, they don’t focus on money.”

The Shift: Targeted Thinking: “I’m becoming a highly compensated coach who creates profound transformation, and my premium pricing reflects the value I deliver.”

Practices:

Results within 8 months:

The lesson: Money blocks are thought blocks. Change the thinking, change the income.

Advanced Targeted Thinking: For Those Ready to Go Deeper

Once you’ve mastered the fundamentals, here are advanced practices:

1. Quantum Thinking

Ask yourself regularly: “What would be possible if I removed all constraints from my thinking?” This helps you think beyond incremental improvement to exponential leaps.

2. Systems Thinking

Instead of just thinking about individual goals, think about the systems that would make your goals inevitable. What processes, routines, and structures support your becoming?

3. Scenario Planning

Regularly engage in “what if” thinking:

4. Paradoxical Thinking

Practice holding two seemingly contradictory truths:

5. Legacy Thinking

Regularly project yourself to the end of your life. Looking back, what thinking patterns would you wish you’d developed? This perspective clarifies what truly matters and eliminates mental noise.

Your 30-Day Targeted Thinking Challenge

To launch CloseTHEGAP2026, I’m issuing a specific challenge: Commit to 30 consecutive days of Targeted Thinking practice.

The Daily Non-Negotiables:

Total time commitment: 15 minutes daily

The Tracking:

The Promise:

If you complete all 30 days without missing one, you will:

Notice opportunities you previously overlooked
Make faster, clearer decisions
Feel more confident and purposeful
See measurable progress toward your vision
Experience the beginning of identity transformation

Start Date: January 1, 2026 (or your chosen start date)

Conclusion: The Fire Within Awaits Your Focus

Remember the lion cub? He didn’t have the luxury of unfocused thinking. His survival depended on mental clarity, strategic processing of his environment, and unwavering focus on becoming the predator he was designed to be.

You’re not fighting for physical survival (hopefully), but you are fighting for something equally important: the actualization of your potential, the fulfillment of your destiny, the closing of the gap between who you are and who you must be.

That fight is won or lost in your mind first.

Winston Churchill didn’t save Britain with weapons alone. He saved it with Targeted Thinking that refused to consider defeat.

Martin Luther King Jr. didn’t change America just with marches. He changed it with Targeted Thinking that kept his eyes on a dream when others saw only nightmares.

The lion cub didn’t become king through luck. He became king because his mind stayed locked on his target: survive, grow, dominate.

And you?

You will close the gap between who you are and who you’re capable of becoming only if you develop the mental discipline of Targeted Thinking.

Not someday.
Not when conditions are perfect.
Not when you feel motivated.

Now. Today. This moment.

Your entelechy, that fire within, has been burning your entire life. It’s been calling you to become. Targeted Thinking is how you answer that call with intention, precision, and power. Abraham Maslow was right: “What one can be, one must be.” But becoming requires thinking. Strategic thinking. Disciplined thinking. Targeted Thinking. The gap exists. The question is: Will you close it?

The Final Word: Never Give Up on Your Becoming

Life is not about scenery, bills, and routines. It’s not about surviving until retirement. It’s not about playing small so others feel comfortable.

Life is about becoming what you are capable of being.

You were not randomly thrown onto this planet. You carry within you a unique entelechy, a fire that is meant to burn brightly, transforming you from potential into actuality.
But that transformation requires mental discipline. It requires Targeted Thinking.

So here’s my challenge to you as we launch CloseTHEGAP2026:

Develop the mind of someone who is closing the gap. Think with purpose. Focus with intention. Rehearse with clarity. Reflect with honesty. And never, ever, never give up on your becoming.

The gap exists. But the gap can close.

Let’s Close The Gap Together in 2026.

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But you’re not dead. You’re reading this. The fire within is still burning. Now let’s focus that fire with Targeted Thinking and watch what becomes possible.