What is Stopping You
What’s Stopping You From Achieving Your Goals?
Remember when you first started planning your goal and how you’re going to go about achieving it, you felt enthusiastic. You felt like you were finally doing what you were meant to be doing. You were confident you were going to make it. You didn’t care what other people thought about you and your goals. You were going to succeed and you were going to be brilliant. But, what happened between then and now? All of a sudden, you’re dragging your feet. You’re no longer excited. When you wake up in the morning, you think about how you can delay the inevitable or maybe even try to escape. All you want to do is just stay underneath the covers and sleep the whole day.
Did you suddenly realize you’ve been chasing the wrong goals? If yes, then know that’s it’s not the end of the world. You’ve still got time. You can still readjust and recalibrate your goals, make it a "YOU" goal. Did you fail at something? If yes, then don’t be afraid. You need to get back out there and continue working towards your goals. There’s no point in hiding. You can’t just give up after you encounter some obstacles and challenges. You don’t need to be afraid of failure. In fact, you must not be afraid of failure! No one is exempt from failing. I have failed, you’ve failed, your parents have failed, your friends have all failed. Even the most successful people you know have all failed big time. In fact, they’ve probably failed more times than you and me combined! They didn’t just become successful one day. They simply persevered and learned from their failures and mistakes. That’s how they did it.
If you give up, if you let the negativity affect you, then you’re not going to get very far in life. You may have the best-laid plans, but if you can’t stomach the thought of failing, then you’ll be nothing but a failure. Failure can teach you so much about life. Let failure guide you.
Let it be your teacher, your mentor. When you think of failure like this, then you’ll eventually find success. Failure will essentially guide you to success.
Your main goal is your big goal, your dream. It’s the long-term goal you want to achieve. It’s not something that’s going to happen tomorrow or next week or next month. Often, big goals take years. Sometimes, other people refer to it as their life’s goal.
One of the main characteristics of a good goal is that it should be time-bound. There should be a deadline in mind. The trick to achieving big goals is by breaking it down into smaller goals. Perhaps there will be a few years when you don’t achieve your mini-goal and you start losing hope you’ll ever get to your main goal. Just remember that it’s not the mini-goal you’re after in the long run, but rather your main goal. The mini-goals are important, but it’s not set in stone. So when you encounter setbacks and challenges, don’t give up. Simply change gears and change direction.
Learning how to adjust your goals means you’re willing to bend, you’re flexible. This is a common characteristic among many entrepreneurs. If they can’t find the exact component they need for a project to run, they’d look for a similar object or make one themselves.
They’re not going to surrender and throw their hands up in the air just because they’re missing a key component. They’ll adjust their plans if they need to as long it will still lead to accomplishing their main goal. It’s really not rocket science - that’s how many inventions and discoveries are made. Things that happen out of circumstance or accident often leads to amazing discoveries. Just think of the possibilities!
To accomplish your goals, you’re going to get specific. You need to set up a course of action or a road map on how you’re going to go about accomplishing your goals. It’s not going to be easy. It will be hard, but you’ll learn so much about yourself and about life along the way. Let your motivation, enthusiasm and passion be your driving force as you navigate your way to success!
I wish you the best
Anthony 'EZ' Henderson
Recent Comments
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Good advise. I think it’s time I had another look at how I’m working towards my goals. Thanks for a great post.
Sound advice Anthony, setting goals is one thing following through is the things that get's us to where we want to be.
Powerful post thank you!