HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL series 1

HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL 1

 

DEFINE YOUR GOALS OR KNOW YOUR GOALS

Do not just set out without knowing what you actually want. Sometimes, people just want to join the crowd in doing what is common in their environment without actually knowing why they have to do it or why they don’t have to do it. This is almost the same thing as closing your eyes and walking; you won’t know what is before you, what is after you, what is with you etc.

Before embarking on any project you must seat down to carefully state what you want, how you want it done, when you want it done and where it should be done. This is called planning. Whether you are a business man, student, an employee, an applicant, a leader of any sort, a parent, etc. you need to plan before starting anything you are expecting to be successful.

Planning is a very important aspect of live such that it is a continuous process of living. The day one stops to plan the day he/she starts failing. Planning is not just any how setting of goals and expectations. Else it is merely a desire. Good planning has to be realistic in setting goals, i.e. you don’t just set goals which you know you do not have the capacity to accomplish. Don’t confuse this with dreaming big. In dreaming big or aiming high, you know you are ready and you have the time to achieve what you want. That is to say dreaming big does not consider time of accomplishment. However, most achievements in life are time constraint that achieving them a later time doesn’t make it a success either.

Planning takes care of knowing what you want and it whispers to you what you know you can’t easily give up on. If one sets a goal and letter takes his/her eyes of the goal and pursue another goal he/she might end up not achieving any of the goals. That is the reason some persons end up not achieving what they desired; there goal was swallowed up by the distractions of the time.

When defining your goals make sure it is not based on the help you are expecting from the party who is not in the same line with what you are supposed to work with such as those which has to do sentiments. I mean do not base your goal on a person who is offering you temporal help which time and chance permitted to be so, because sooner or later the help will fade away because it was not meant to be permanent.

Let your goal be well defined with the help of the inner conviction that you will achieve it. People who do not believe in themselves rarely achieve a goal and most often fall to going by what just comes there way. The inner drive most be there and the self-confidence must also be put to work. This is what will turn discouragement and disappointment into a challenge else the hard times of discouragement and disappointment will become very overwhelming. So learn to distinguish between settling for less as a result of lack of self-confidence and laziness and being too desirous which could be confused with being overambitious.