All of us set goals. Sometimes we achieve goals. Most of the time, we do not achieve goals. Some people keep on setting the same goal, and never succeed once.
Some people are not successful in achieving goals, due to the fact that they do not overcome their weaknesses. Some people are successful in achieving easy goals, but are not successful in achieving lofty goals.
It is impossible to achieve unrealistic and impossible goals. Hardly anyone has the physical strength to take part in Olympics. However, most of us can set achievable goals, and work hard towards it.
We need to understand ourselves, our strengths and weaknesses.
Brilliant students do not achieve goals of passing very subject if they know their strengths and do nothing about their weaknesses.
We have to improve on what we can do, and overcome our weaknesses, so that we can achieve goals.
Bad habits and certain personal characteristics can to failure. A student with the highest IQ in the world cannot be the top student if he refuses to attend class and study. If he refuses to make use of his gift, and overcome his weakness, there is no way he can achieve goals in life.
If you want to achieve goals, you must overcome the bad habit of laziness. Some people are lazy in mentally draining work. Some people are lazy in physically draining work. Instead of getting rid of the laziness problem, lazy people tend to avoid the problem. If you want to achieve goals, you must overcome your laziness. You have to understand that hard work and perseverance lead to success. There is no short cut in life.
All the greatest people in the world achieve goals in life due to their talents, hard work and perseverance. It is impossible to find a famous scientist who does not do research. It is impossible to find great artists who refuse to draw. It is impossible to achieve goals when you cannot overcome laziness.
Many greatest people work very hard, much harder than those peers who did not leave a mark in history. The great people in history worked longer hours, woke up earlier, slept less, ate less, and devoted to their work. We know them because they achieved goals. You need to sacrifice time for enjoyment if you want to achieve goals.
You have to remember that everything you ever want is just outside your comfort zone. If you want to achieve goals in whatever areas of life, you have to work hard and work smart.
If you want to achieve goals, the next barrier is fear.
Some people fear to fail. However, most people fear success. They fear that when they become rich and powerful, they do not have friends. They think that being poor is a way to test friendship and love. That is simply not true. Many poor people are friendless. They rot in their houses for many days without anyone caring about them. Many rich people have friends who are willing to trust them with money and life.
If you want to achieve goals, you must overcome fear of failure. If you want to achieve goals, you must overcome fear of success.
Many people fear failures and successes so much that they do not want to try. Some people are so fearful of success that they turn away the opportunity that can make them successful. If you turn away the opportunity for success, you cannot achieve goals.
Some people do not realize that once they achieve goals and are successful, they have many people to help them bear the bigger responsibilities. A lowly receptionist does not have assistants. Once she becomes the head of department, she has many assistants to help her. Work is just as difficult for a lowly receptionist than for a head of department.
You should understand that once you achieve goals, it can mean you can set loftier goals, and achieve loftier goals.
If you want to achieve goals, you must overcome selfishness. All successful people share. They are not afraid to share, because they know that they gain in the process of sharing.
Many people do not want to share or seek help from others because they are selfish. They do not want to share their expected success. The sad thing is that most of them do not actually achieve goals.
A selfish player in a team cannot achieve goals. All champions need support, training and opportunities to share and compete. The joy and celebration for every success multiplies when many individuals participate in the road to success.
If you want to become rich, you can share the road to financial freedom with others. Many people form partnership and get rich together. Sharing your expertise with others can help you achieve goals.
If you want to achieve goals, you must overcome pessimism. Losers always lose, even when the chest of treasure is right in front of them. They manage to talk themselves out of achieving goals.
The worst is that they do not achieve goals, and they prevent you from achieving your goals. You will feel so depressed and hopeless talking to them.
Pessimism is a poison. If you want to achieve goals, you must avoid people who are negative, even if they are your close friends and relatives.
It is good to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. It is not good to hope for the worst and prepare to fail.
You can achieve goals when you view yourself as a confident, strong, and capable person. You must trust your ability to achieve goals. If you want to achieve goals of losing weight and eating healthy, you must have the determination to overcome your weaknesses.
You are responsible for most of what happen in your life. Even though problems happen, you know that you have the ability to achieve goals and remain successful in life. Minor and major setbacks can help you to become a stronger and better person.
You can write a list of all your weaknesses and bad traits that will hinder the path to achieve goals.
You can put the opposite trait or your desired strength for each weakness. You can learn to overcome your weaknesses and develop the desired traits. You have a lifetime to do conquer your weaknesses, so take your time. Do not get disappointed and do not need to hurry.
The positive traits will make you achieve goals easier. It is possible to achieve goals in every aspect of life, provided the goals are realistic.
Monday, January 18, 2010
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Great post. Most people would rather be ignorant to what achieving their goals truly means. Then when they don't achieve them, they wonder how they stumbled and staggered towards their goal.
ReplyDeleteA little research can go a long way to making overall goal setting much more successful!
-Alex Work