Self Help: Breaking Goals Down To The Basics

Breaking Goals Down To The Basics

Written by Jeffrey Rolo

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primary reasons why people fail to execute their goals is they set forth unrealistic or overly complex goals. Most of us have repparttar 128845

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end point and us. Here are a couple examples to illustrate this point:

My goal is to lose 80 pounds by next year.
My goal is to lose 8 pounds a month each month until I reach grand goal of 80 pounds.

Or how about this one?

My goal is to save up enough money to take a cross-country vacation next summer.
My goal is to save $30.00 each week so that 50 weeks from now I will have accumulated $1,500.00 for vacation expenses. I will do this by using grocery coupons, downgrading my cable plan and dining out one time less per week.

The majority of us lay out our goals in repparttar 128851 general manner exhibited by repparttar 128852 first statement in each of repparttar 128853 two examples above, but unfortunately they are so aimless and expansive that unless you are particularly motivated and disciplined chances are good you will give up long before you reach repparttar 128854 goal.

On repparttar 128855 other hand, if you break down your expansive goals into an assortment of smaller goals that are easily achieved, you will find yourself far more focused and motivated. Each time you reach a milestone (the conclusion of a smaller goal), you will experience repparttar 128856 jubilation of success and be one step closer to your end goal.

DANCING DOWN THE ROAD CALLED LIFE

Written by Terri Amos

As I sat down to write this article I asked little Terri, repparttar

child inside of me who represents my heart, what she wanted to write about. I saw her in my mind. She started laughing, wiggling, and dancing around repparttar 128842

room, chanting "Dancing, dancing, dancing down repparttar 128843

road called life."

A big grin came across my face as I watched her in my mind's eye. "What is repparttar 128844 message you're trying to tell me?" I asked her.

"Life is so much more fun when you surrender to God," was her answer.

Little Terri is now jumping around on my bed, dancing her heart out. I am tickled to see her so happy. She says, "I just wanna have fun, fun, fun! I just wanna play, play, play! I just wanna be, be, be!"

I ask her, "Well, do you feel as if you are getting enough of these things?"

"Yes! Yes!" she screams and then topples down on my bed laughing hysterically.

After reading this you might feel as if I need to be institutionalized. Some days you are probably right. However, I've never experienced so much laughter and joy in my life as I feel now and it's because of my relationship with this child. She is my connection to God. When I talk to her, cuddle and play with her, and act upon repparttar 128845 messages she gives me, I feel so much love.

By staying connected to this little child and by honoring and loving her, I am living my life from God's love in my heart, not from my head. My head kept me in fear and pain for much of my life. That's because I constantly played mental games with myself. Because of those games, repparttar 128846 laughter died within me. But now my heart is filled with laughter. That's because little Terri is alive and well inside of me. Don't get me wrong, there are days when I go back to my old ways of trying to control everything around me. But, boy, when I do, little Terri sure gives me a kick in repparttar 128847 rump! I can always tell when I've lost my connection to her and moved from my heart back into my head. That's when she throws a fit. I'll feel my throat tightening and I'll get all jittery. Sometimes I feel weepy, usually because she's feeling sad and alone. But as soon as I acknowledge her and ask her what is bothering her, she calms down. That's when I hear her messages. As I act upon them, my life flows with freedom and ease.

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