When you want to reach a goal, it’s not enough to focus on adopting habits to get closer to your dreams, everything you realize. Often, it is the habits already acquired that prevent them from achieving the goals set.
No matter what type of target you want to reach, whether it’s a health and family goal, or if what you’re looking for is related to your economic situation, education or love, certain habits can interfere with one of these initiatives.
- “Nothing can stop man with the right mental attitude to achieve his goal; Can nothing on earth help a man with a bad mental attitude?.
- – Thomas Jefferson-.
One day, another, when I can, etc. These dates do not appear in any calendar, in this sense, just as the dates grow, they also motivate us to move forward with less pleasant tasks, in fact, finding a goal within a set time frame is often one of the first steps to realize that goal.
Dreams are already full of intentions, so for them to materialize you need to start acting, without dates, any attempt to develop a plan will not lead anywhere, no matter if you need to make changes along the way or if you’re late for some reason to achieve this goal. An aircraft can be modified and adapted to reach the destination, but the lack of a plan is a jump into the abyss without parachutes.
So start by setting your goal and giving it a space on the calendar, a space on your days, and if you can’t start now, it doesn’t matter. You decide when you’ll start, when you’ll develop your action plan. .
Am I not ready to start yet? This can be a reflection of many moods. You may not be sure of your goal, that is, do not feel that it is actually an autonomous and personal choice, you may not be as motivated as you think, because what motivates you to dream is not the right engine. Maybe your dream isn’t very clear and it’s just a vague general idea. Maybe you’re scared.
In any case, once the objective is well defined, even if we do not know if there will be guarantees, we must close our eyes and continue, an exercise of courage to take the first step, self-confidence and resources. , if you are ready to dream, you are ready to start working on your dream.
To underestimate the resources to deal with the difficulties that lie ahead is to throw a bucket of water into the dreams and illusions of many people, which tremble at any uncertainty presented to them, so they do not advance.
They think they won’t be able to get where they want to go, but they’re not going to get the tools they’re going to let them go either. They don’t postpone their dream, they don’t give up, but they don’t decide to chase him either.
In this sense, anticipating difficulties, making an unexpected plan is an intelligent strategy in itself that can be bad, if it is poorly made or misused. If it is poorly executed, it can lead us to set goals that are currently unattainable; on the other hand, if the plan goes wrong, it can give us a lot of confidence and we end up running away from reality.
However, the plan may be appropriate, but then misused or simply not used; in such cases, the effort to do so would be a waste of energy. The most common case occurs with these people who, instead of storing tools to deal with these difficulties, become paralyzed, imagining the suffering that this will cause them.
You can’t always walk in a straight line. Sometimes you have to overcome the obstacles, other times you have to work hard to eliminate them or at least reduce them, in addition, on a few occasions the work immediately produces the expected result, but it is not a loss.
We rarely lose when we learn. This is the best reflection of bad results, and is only visible to those who do intelligent management of “failure”. If something goes wrong, it doesn’t matter. That’s part of the process. In addition, it often happens that the greater the error, the greater the learning.
What is of no use is to get frustrated and deflated by failures and, worse, to face the idea of failure. Accept your mistakes, recognize them to your story and give them the feeling that you do well and use all the energy generated. by the wrath of error itself to return to the road, to a particular destination.
Impatience is a friend of haste and quite treacherous in changes, becoming one of the greatest obstacles to the realization of any dream. Despite a plan, it will hardly be up to you, so we recommend that you be patient as a powerful ally.
In this sense, for many, the manifestation of progress is not progressive, it occurs by leaps. Periods in which we barely take a step forward or even backward, combine with other periods in which there is a big leap.
Try not to despair. Just because you can’t see the results doesn’t mean the efforts have been in vain, keep in mind that in many cases the breakthrough happens at once, and this often happens unexpectedly, in that sense, the best thing that can happen when this happens is that you’re surprised at work.
Think, for example, of a writer when you publish your first essay or book. Probably, before you see your dream come true, it will be rejected several times by publishers, there will be a long period during which you don’t see any progress. , our writer, instead of giving up, continues to send his manuscript until he finally receives a letter agreeing to review his book. The step represented by this letter is enormous and probably would not have been taken without the faith and perseverance of the one who sent them.
“Difficulties increase as you approach the goal. “- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-
Dreaming is wonderful, exciting, inspiring. It makes you see the future with other eyes, it makes you excited and feel good, however, this pleasant recreation, when it is not accompanied by action, does not advance.
Analyze your sleep, evaluate your goal and find out if it’s achievable. Make a plan and face the difficulties one by one, starting with the first one. Celebrate every little breakthrough as a breakthrough in itself. And keep moving forward.
Review your daily habits and do what you need to do to walk regularly toward your goal. The changes you have to make are part of the trip, remember. And remember that no matter how much you have to miss, or as many stops as you’re forced to make, as long as you can see where you’re going, you’ll go down the path of success.