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Tips on setting goals

Goals are sign posts: they lead you where you want to go. Goals are also conscious decisions that you create to get from a point in life into another: success, enrichment, enlightenment, wherever it is you want to go.

There are no clear-cut tips on setting goals. No one’s supposed to tell you to do this thing and that, with you following the advice word for word and expecting immediate returns. Some motivational speakers even admit that even after years of lecturing on the how-to’s and giving tips on setting goals, they still do not get it themselves.

Of course there is some crumb of truth in the things that books have told you about what to do to succeed in life traditionally, over and over. Of course, you have to, say, make a list of things to achieve by a certain time and age and that you have to see yourself in this position for you to get motivated to get there.

What you actually need to know is that there are other ways to reach your goals, besides the tips on setting goals that the self-help books typically believe should be a list of items instead of attitudes that anyone must develop in order to achieve any form of success.

“The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment,” said Earl Nightingale, famous U.S. writer. It is here that we notice that there is more to goal-setting than writing the goals on a piece of paper; one must also be passionate enough to reach that goal in order to get there.

People who would like to achieve something must not only dwell on the “how to begin” part of their trip to success, nor should they focus on the “goal” part too much. There is actually a part of that dream that requires a lot of commitment, a lot of passion from the part of the dreamer to make this goal come true. This should start with the person actually doing something about it.

The most successful people sometimes did not know they would end up as successful people in their particular field. Some actors, for example, didn’t know they would star in multi-million dollar movies during their days as, say, waiters in a particular restaurant.

Some successful people actually believe they were meant for something else: which brings us to our next point. Respect failure.

When one begins to respect that he or she might not actually be cut out for a particular ‘talent,’ like singing or dancing, there must be some opportunity elsewhere. Someone said that “opportunity doesn’t have nametags,” part of the reasoning that it isn’t quite enough to just write down a goal and for one to get there by following a series of steps.

On the other hand, those who have had it in them to succeed in a particular task and have failed in the process must have learned that slacking off isn’t a good thing. Goals require tons and tons of dedication and hard work, something that lazy people aren’t good at. Lazy people usually don’t get what they want. Else, they wait for whatever that is to come knocking at their door and see where it goes from there.

This does not mean that advice books that give tips on setting goals don’t work. What is meant by this article is that it takes cooperation between you and opportunity to make something out of what you want to do with your life, be it a simple task, or a life-changing goal, you want completed.

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