Knpwing Your Goals Makes Achieving Them Easier

Written by Michelle L. Casto


Knowing Your Goals Make Achieving Them Easier

The desire to meet a challenge and succeed has been a part of many cultures throughout history. The ancient Peruvians used to draw out their goals in symbols and paint them in primitive colors onrepparttar walls of caves. The Egyptians used to create elaborate rituals to move from one state of desire to actualization. They believed that writing out a dream in advance would assure a positive outcome. Likewise, we moderns have an innate need to live a fulfilling and meaningful life. To reach your goals, you must take a proactive, committed approach to making it happen. What follows are nine ways to achieve your goals. 1. Know What You Want When you are clear about what you want, you build excitement. When you are excited, more effort is put forth, and your enthusiasm helps to overcome obstacles. 2. Write Your Goals Down When you write about what you want, it becomes indelibly written not only onrepparttar 123820 paper, but also upon your consciousness. 3. Visualize What You Want "See" in your mind's eye your goal already achieved. What does it look like, feel like? The more real your image,repparttar 123821 more powerful it will be, operating much like a magnet drawing forth more of what you want to you. 4. Affirm What You Want Speak your goals into existence. An affirmation is a present-tense, positive statement of your intended outcome. For example, "I am a successful_________."

Are You Fighting the Wrong Enemy?

Written by Monty J. Sharp


Are You Fightingrepparttar Wrong Enemy? By Monty J. Sharp, Certified Comprehensive Coach http://www.workteamcoaching.com

I read many articles weekly written by respected authors who give their impression of what holds people back from achieving success in life, business, whatever. The number one obstacle listed by most?

Fear.

Fear of failure. Fear of success. Fear of any or all of a dozen or more things - real or imagined. Fear, it would seem, isrepparttar 123819 enemy we must conquer in order to reachrepparttar 123820 "Promised Land" of our dreams and goals.

I respectfully disagree.

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote, "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer."

Everyone has fears - evenrepparttar 123821 extraordinarily successful. In fact, fear can be a quite useful thing. Many times it keeps us from doing things that could prove harmful - or just downright stupid. So why then do some achieve their dreams while others do not? I believerepparttar 123822 secret lies in knowingrepparttar 123823 right enemy to conquer.

You see, I do not believe that fear isrepparttar 123824 real enemy, but rather what fear produces in us - that isrepparttar 123825 real enemy we must conquer. What does fear produce in us that becomesrepparttar 123826 enemy to our achievements and accomplishments?

-- A belief inrepparttar 123827 "fundamental lie". The fundamental lie is that false assumption, misunderstanding or inaccurate life formula that dictates many of our thoughts and actions and, therefore, results. Our fear screams to us, "What if you fail?" The fundamental lie whispers, "You will fail. There's no use in trying." Our actions are based on what we believe as truth inrepparttar 123828 moment.

-- Complacency. Quite simply stated, we settle forrepparttar 123829 mediocre. The status quo. It has been said that before any meaningful change can occur, we must become wholly dissatisfied withrepparttar 123830 status quo. Fear often produces in us a complacency that far outweighs our dissatisfaction withrepparttar 123831 status quo, so we settle for less.

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