Satisfactory is not enough. If we do not set goals, we risk stagnation and one day we ask ourselves: what interesting things have I done in my life? What would I like to have tried? What important things have I achieved? Achieving goals has nothing to do with achieving success. Rather it has to do with learning and living new experiences that we deserve because success is not getting a simple medal.
Success is the adventure of what has been lived and what has been learned. The process of developing a goal is a great personal challenge. We test endless skills such as initiative, problem-solving, creativity, planning, motivation, concentration, achievement orientation, commitment, productivity, and effective time management…. skills so valued today in any professional field. But above all, it brings us to personal satisfaction with ourselves.
Trust your abilities
All our goals are:
– Great, however small they may be.
– Difficult, however easy they may seem.
– Personal, ours and nobody else’s.
– Illusions, and is that only the fact of setting a specific goal and take the first steps generates a special feeling of well-being and, why not say it, happiness! You feel that you can reach it. You feel a growing confidence in your own abilities.
Small steps
The goals begin with small steps in our day to day and that lead us in all likelihood to achieve our desire or ultimate goal (change jobs, improve health, relationships, etc.). It really is not about doing great things, but about doing things in a conscious way that we have not done before.
Many times we do not take these steps for fear of losing “security”. We can live life thinking “Little Madonna, that I stay as I am” or “better known bad than good to know” or we can go a step further and try to discover new ways that make us vibrate! After all, we only have one life! Well, take advantage of it. If you are afraid of losing “security”,”, you will also lose the freedom to choose. Security and freedom are not good friends. But is there anything safe besides what we already know?
Enjoy the process
Actually, the most valuable thing to set a goal is not to achieve the final goal, but to enjoy the effort and learning. Of course getting it is rewarding, but it’s only a moment. The day you say “I got it”, everything will be over. And you cannot live permanently from momentary success, you have to continue. Therefore you cannot stop putting more goals the next day, because beyond achieving it, you feel in that cloud of motivation and energy willing to do whatever you pose.
When you have a clear goal and decide to put yourself to work on it, you cannot let others interrupt or interfere, you must protect it as if it were your greatest treasure. Saying “no” when necessary will make you concentrate on your own. The best thing to avoid getting distracted is to establish daily routines and times. It says the phrase “To achieve something that you have never obtained you will have to do something you never did”. The worst thing that can happen to you is that you surely get a lot of what you wanted and discover other great inducements along the way. Your biggest prize!