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We All Want Success
What is success? The answer will vary for each of us, based on if we set goals for ourselves or if we have a vision of how we see ourselves in the future as we become successful. Defining this will be very important for you to build a better mindset for money.
Define Your Success
You will feel success through your definition of accomplishment.
Is your goal to lose weight, to get rich, to help others, to get stronger, etc.? The good news is that most of our goals are obtainable. That is, if we really want to accomplish them.
It is easy to dream about what our future life could be like. Allow yourself the joy of visualizing what you would like to do, where you would travel or live, how you would live, or how you would make a living.
There is a known process to achieve most goals. We have the records of those who have already succeeded. Taking time to read about those who have succeeded at what you would like to do will help you be more efficient in our attempts. Some goals, depending on the detailed steps to accomplish, will take longer than others to achieve.
Set Your Goals for Success
We get busy making a living. We get distracted by fun activities and hobbies and sports that we love to do or watch. Meanwhile, we lose sight of where we want to go with our own goals.
For that reason, while I suggest you dream a little and put some of those dreams on paper as your goals, you will get sidetracked with distractions enough that I suggest you do an annual review of your goals.
Your annual review can help you regain the enthusiasm you had when you first set your goals and help you refine what those goals should ultimately look like. At the same time some goals may get put lower on the list. The time is well spent to give you better focus on how you can break the large goals into smaller steps that can become a part of your daily and weekly planning.
Make the Time to Make It Happen
When you set goals, they are very easy to set aside when the list of distractions appears on your schedule. Those are appraisals on your part as to what is most important at that time.
Unless you give a goal enough value to set a deadline for its accomplishment you will continually delay making the first step. The concept is that you should make note of the steps needed to reach that goal and schedule the smaller steps with your daily and weekly planning. That will help you focus on what can be done in the short term to eventually reach your long-term goal.
This is a simplistic view of time management. Management of time requires you to allocate your time based on the priorities you set for yourself. It takes that kind of evaluation to help you determine what you do in your spare time. Have some unproductive fun or enjoy working on a goal?
“Something More”
If achieving goals was easy, more of us would be setting goals as common practice. Since most of us know too many who talk about goals but never seem to start on them, we keep our wishes to ourselves.
The fear of failure halts many of us early in the process of reaching our goals. A little self-education can give us some needed inspiration.
W. Clement Stone and Napoleon Hill, in their book Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude, refers to the element of inspiration as the “something more” that will help you succeed where others have failed. They suggest, “When you receive a flash of inspiration, write it down. This may be the something more that you are looking for.”
This is one way to give yourself a better chance by doing “something more” that others are unwilling to do.
What You Do Not Know
You do not know what your limits are until you try to expand them. And setting goals will broaden your concept of your horizons.
You will find that you can do more than you thought possible.
You can learn more than you thought you could.
Read. Try. Experiment. Do little things to help you want to do bigger things.
Little successes will lead to bigger successes.
If you want to make your dreams come true, as in achieving your goals, you must consider this quote from Jim Rohn, “What you do not know will hurt you.” And, “There is no reason not to know.”
The Effort
To paraphrase Jim Rohn, again, he often quoted his mentor who referred to setting goals as a means to transform yourself. He said that it was not the goals but what you become trying to achieve them that really matters.
Give yourself time and you will grow to do more than you ever thought you could!
The effort you make for anything, such as goals, is what will have a positive effect on your life that will make you stronger and more confident.
On this key point, Jim Rohn, again, noted that your failures of the past were the result of your unwillingness to make changes for the better. He notes, “Nothing will change until you change.”
That is sobering advise that requires an internal and external effort on your part.
Your Internal Effort
Change for you will be from the inside out. Setting goals aids in this process. The vision helps to generate enthusiasm, the willingness to make the external effort.
Planning and detailing the steps of the process helps the ability to focus on what to do and when to do it.
Enthusiasm is reinforced with inspiration to keep you motivated.
The internal effort to move your mind in the right direction will transfer to conscious physical effort to reinforce the new habit.
The change comes and bears fruit in your external effort.
Your External Effort
Being motivated to do something can give you the courage to do the physical activity that needs to be done.
Once the first step is taken, the following steps will gain momentum.
When you have prepared yourself internally, you will have the focus to take the necessary steps to achieve the physical goal.
The Process of Change
Change involves habits. Developing good habits to replace bad habits takes effort.
Positive habits will get results. Goals are achieved by consistent positive actions. That is the process to make changes internally to be able to make changes externally.
Add “Something More”
Having a goal is motivation for your time management. Preparations that you make to be able to reach that goal will make you a better person and add to your self-confidence.
However, you still need to allow your subconscious mind to work on solutions to problems you might have along the way. The added inspiration you need for the “something more” will come to you from the faith that prayers are answered.
Give this process a chance to make a difference in your life.
Setting goals and working toward them will help you become more than what you currently are. We improve with our efforts to make positive change.
The “something more” is the unseen influences that direct our minds in the right direction.
Do your habits, your current situation, reflect a series of successes?
If not, then, you need to consider what you need to change to help you make better decisions.
I want you to succeed. I want you to take the time to define what that would be for you. Then, make the effort to make that happen!