Ever found yourself saying ‘Ooh, I really should do this, I really should ... course you have, everyone has, myself ... trouble is, whatever the thing is that you ‘really should do’, w
Ever found yourself saying ‘Ooh, I really should do this, I really should do that’?
Of course you have, everyone has, myself included.
The trouble is, whatever the thing is that you ‘really should do’, will just stay as some wishy washy task sometime in the future.
It’s a goal achievement killer, an eternal get-out clause, because ‘I should’ is usually followed by ‘but I can’t because…’, or until, or unless, etc, etc
For goal achievement to work, the goal needs to be clearly defined, you need to desire the goal badly enough, and you need to believe for certain that it will happen.
Without these 3 in place, your goal will stay stuck at the ‘I should’ stage.
Once you *do* have the definition, the desire, and the belief in place though, you will realise that ‘I should’ changes to ‘I must’, or the goal will not come to fruition.
This is progress, but to move on, you need your attitude to be correct, another goal achievement essential.
If you are at the ‘I must’ stage, then your attitude is in the right direction, but you need to realise that your goal will not happen without action, which is one of, if not *the* most important secret of success.
Action unleashes power. Power within yourself, and also external power, bringing unplanned opportunites to your door.
Once you have the attitude of action sorted out, you will move in to the ‘I will’ stage.
Probably 90% of the time, our negative expectations are proved unfounded, and this one of the rushes we get from action, along with knowledge that your goal is undoubtedly closer to happening because you *have* acted.
You also get a sense of control, and the ability to choose the direction of your life.
Finally we arrive at the ‘I did’ stage.
At this point, we have maybe achieved our goal, or taken steps towards it, and we can begin to unleash this system on other goals in our life.
Maybe it didn’t work out, in which case I pull out one of my favourite quotes:
“You’re not a failure if you try and don’t make it, you’re a success because you tried”.
In either case you can feel proud of yourself, because you are truly harnessing the power which lies within yourself, and believe me, you will feel happier and less stressed.
We use this 4 step strategy all the time, every day. Putting out the rubbish for the garbage collector for example. I should put the rubbish out because it’s bin day. I must put it out, or it won’t get collected. I will put it out, because I don’t want it hanging around for another week. I did put it out, and the job is done.
Our own goals in life, whatever they may be, simply need a conscious effort to apply the same 4 steps!
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