GOAL SETTING
A happy group of women celebrating after achieving a difficult goal/Credit/Kampus Production
A
difficult goal in our context, is an important goal that you must achieve. Everything
else depends on this goal. It is your last hope. To that end, you have no choice
but to make it work. It has to work. You want it to work. However, there are obstacles
on the way. Yet, if anything has to happen in your life, this goal must be
accomplished regardless of its stubbornness. But you are running out of energy
and strategies to get it done. Stubborn goals have a way of draining people. They
drive people to a point of giving up. You have tried everything that you know,
and nothing is working. And all you keep seeing are more obstacles. Hurdles that
throw you off balance. Yet everything is stuck. But you must find your way out
of the ditch. But your path is clouded. “What
is going on?” Perhaps you ask.
In
fact, research shows that at least 80 percent of people do not set goals. And only
three percent of people in the world set goals. Further, out of the three
percent, only one percent writes their goals down. That is why 58 percent of goals
fail because people never commit to them. The one percent that writes its goals
has 42 percent chance of achieving them. I would like to imagine that you are
among the one percent that write their goals down. And perhaps that is why you
have a goal now. A goal that is driving you crazy. Because your chances of
success are diminishing each day. A difficult goal is one that is in your mind.
One that you have written down. An important goal, which you and your life depend
on it. You want something so bad, that you are willing to take risks to achieve
it. That is the type of goal I would like to help you achieve today.
Laser Focus
You
just don’t take your mind off the goal. It must be accomplished no matter the
obstacles. So remain focused on the goal and work through it till the end. We all
envision a smooth process every time we have something important to accomplish.
We want to get it done using the shortest time possible. However, in real-time,
things are not as straight as you want them to be. You have to be tested. You must
prove your worth. The only best way to get something important completed
properly is to do nothing but more focus. Go at it again every time you
encounter a million reasons to abandon it. Fight your way out. Obstacles are forms
of disruptions. Interruptions meant to slow you down. Push you away from things
that matter. However, you must be prepared. Be realistic enough. Think through
your approaches. Question them.
You
need to understand that, as much as, this goal is important to you, there are situations,
which will be beyond your control. You do not need to be upset when you hit
these challenges. Instead, remain alert and learn from them. Learn to get hit
and how to stand again. Don’t lose focus. Don’t give power to your obstacles. Recognize
them and learn how to make progress despite their presence. Being realistic
will go a long way here. You need to see things as they are and strategize. There
is no straight way to heaven. You must fight your way to heaven. You will
encounter all sorts of detours on the way. You need to be strong. You need to
learn how to stand there and keep fighting. When all odds tell you that you
will fail, have some faith. As long as, you know you are on the right path, don’t
stop. Focus is demanded.
Laser
focus holds you down. It helps to keep the most important things in front of
your mind. You just cannot forget about your issue. You cannot forget the goal
you wrote down. You think about it all the time. Laser focus will haunt you. It
will keep you moving when you want to stop. Remain on the course. Learn about
the obstacles on the way. Take some time and think about how you are approaching
your goal. Did you underestimate anything? Were you over optimistic? You sure
you anticipated these challenges? Think about everything. And approach again. Don’t
change the goal. Instead, change the way you approach it. Find alternative ways
that will lead you to the same destination. Beat the obstacles. Jump over them.
Use the other side of the road. Call someone. But never abandon the gold in the
ground. Keep digging. Achieve this goal. Don’t let a dream die. Remain focused
in the midst of storms.
Determination
No
one is leaving until it is done. It does not matter how hard it has become. You
are going to be resilient. You are going to stamp your foot. You will not be a
footstool to the obstacles. You are going to roll your sleeves. You are going
to get to work. You are going to focus on the work until it is done properly. You
just don’t give up. Life has curve balls all the time. People encounter curve
balls all the time. But they choose to survive in the midst of those problems. Don’t
die trying. Be determined to remain alive. You will not just throw up your
hands. You will not just walk away because you have tried everything that you
know. You are going to try doing it again. This time using a new level of
thinking. Talk to enough people. Get your name on the right tables. You are
going to start thinking better.
The
difficult goal in question will get you upset in many ways on the journey. You will
use almost all your resources in the tool box. You will be gasping for air. You
will feel like running away. You will want to hide. But be realistic. Nobody cares
about what you care about most than yourself. Save yourself. Remain on the job.
Keep doing it. There is no room for those who wait on others. Other people have
their problems. They just don’t have enough time to fix your problem. You are
better placed to solve it yourself. Get angry a little bit but don’t abandon
the mission. Get up and go at it again. A difficult goal has everything on
line. Don’t allow yourself to fall apart. Be the strongest that you have ever
been. Reduce the level of complains. And keep working on your goal. Don’t leave
until it is done.
Discipline
The
only difference between a person at the top and a person at the bottom is
discipline. Discipline to keep going when odds suggest otherwise. Look at your
work ethic. What are you made of? Sand? Of course not. You are made of steel. Have
the discipline that will keep you going when you should give up. There is
nothing worth marvel right now in the world that just happened. Someone must
have thought about it. Someone must have fought for it. Someone must have bled
for it. You need the discipline. You will not check every element of your goal
if, you don’t have the discipline. Discipline to stop wasting your energy on
unrelated things. Discipline to walk away from activities that do not help you
in any way to achieve what you want. You need the discipline to keep coming
back, when yesterday the currents almost swept you away.
When
everything that you have built with your soul and mind suddenly crumbles, you
need the discipline to build it again. It is exhausting. It is painful. I know
all of that and more. But your life depends on it. You just cannot let your
life down. If, this difficult goal must be accomplished, you will need the
discipline. You will need to up your game. You will need to go beyond ordinary.
You will need to learn how to make progress during turbulence. You will also learn
to remain at work. And continue placing one brick after the other until you
have a complete house. While doing all these, you will also remember, to labor with
a good attitude. Don’t let your petty ego stand in the way of your dream. You
must learn how to make lemonade when life serves lemons. Lemons are bitter but they
do not kill people. Focus on the good feeling after the bitter. Have the discipline
to endure in the mine until you find gold. Don’t get your mind off your goal. Get
it accomplished despite the obstacles.
In
conclusion, this author is saying that, your goal might be difficult to achieve,
but that does not mean that it cannot be achieved. You just need to remain
present and go through the roller coaster. And when roller coaster stops, you
will be somewhere as long as, you kept going. So, get back to work.
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