Power of
GOAL
Unfortunately many people live life with no specific goals, whereas
some people have goals but not specific. Let's see what is advantages of having
specific goal?
Assume you are a skilled shooter and have bow and arrow in your hands.
I will ask you to shoot. Where you will shoot? You can't shoot as I have not
given any target/goal. Similarly having skills wouldn't help you, unless you
have specific goal or targets set.
Goal without specification looks like this, you have bow and arrow and
you are shooting at East side. What is the use of shooting towards East side when
there is no right target set?
Goal should be like this: In the forest, once tiger decided to catch
one specific deer (in group the group of deer) and runs towards that, if on the
way any other deer comes closer to it, it will just ignore and move towards the
targeted one, it's ready to run additional
kilometers to catch the deer, and never compromises
from the target and its goal.
Here is one of the Harvard
Business school research:
In 1979 Harvard asked one specific question to MBA students.
"Have you clearly written goals of your future and prepared any plans to
achieve them?"
Only 3% students had written goals and had plans. 13% students had goals
but not written. Other 84% had not set any goals and they were very much
interested to enjoy holidays after academics.
After 10 years in 1989, researchers surveyed the same students. 13%
who had goals and not written on papers were doing ordinary jobs, and earning
two times greater than 84%. Whereas 3% who had clearly written goals were
earning 10 times greater than the 97%
Above research clearly explains that one should always have clear and
specific goals, not only goals, they have to write down them on a paper.
Let me give my own example, I decided to get a job in 2 months. I
marked the end date in calendar and started looking at it and working towards
it. I got the job before reaching end date or deadline. It’s not my only story,
all of you look back and see, in your life; most of the achievements you have
achieved when you set specific goal and target dates to it.
Why my goals is not becoming a
reality?
Answer is you might be having goals, those goals may not be clear or
specific, and you have not written on paper or you have doubt on your set goal
or you are not working towards to achieve them.
Remember, one should have believable goals. You can't have a goal
which you yourself can't believe in it. Example: I want to become a Prime
Minister or President of the country. It's impossible because you set that goal
but your core inner feelings says that it's not possible by you. Having these
unbelievable goals and not having any goals are almost same.
Steps to set goals and achieve:
- Have possible, believable and achievable goals.
- Once you set goals, start doing research to achieving them, prepare plan, analyze about goal requirements and acquire skill set for that and work on those areas.
- Once your goal requirements are clear, start working on them. Assume if your goal requires 10 different things you need to be master on, prioritize 10 things and work on one at a time. If one of requirement is too big? Break them into pieces and apply divide and conquer rule.
- Identify and eliminate what negative actions or thought are blocking you to achieve your goal.
- Stop blaming others, take all the responsibilities on your shoulders.
- Forgive all the people who disturbed you in the past, invest the same energy towards your goals.
- Believe that there is a solution for every problem and assume nothing stops you to achieve your goal.
- Have good relationships with every member of your family and work environments.
- Assume you have no limitations and have infinite energy to achieve your goals.
- Set goals with target dates. For bigger goals, split and set the target dates and deadlines to achieve them.
- Measure your goal and it's achievement like sports score board by tracking with percentage of accomplishment.
- Have courage and believe that you have all capabilities to achieve your goal.
- Question yourself who is preventing or what is preventing your goal achievement, find the preventing reasons and work towards to fix them.
- Make learning is a habit, daily invest some dedicated time to learn on your subjects.
- Set time to train, set time to perform and achieve your goals.
- Practice reputedly and perform brilliantly.
Power of achieving goal using power
of subconscious mind:
Education, Experience and Eligibility does not matter, only GOAL
matters! If you want to achieve something, set believable goal and write down
on the paper, and work towards it.
Each of us have about 60,000 thoughts on an average day. By writing
out your desires and goals on a piece of paper, you send a red flag to your
subconscious mind that these thoughts are far more important that the remaining
59,999 other ones. Your mind will then start to seek out all opportunities to
realize your destiny like a guided missile. It is really a very scientific
process. Most of us are simply not aware of it. [Reference Book: The Monk Who
Sold His Ferrari. By Robin S. Sharma]
Universe has everything, one who achieved is the one who have GOALS.
In your city, check your neighbors or strangers whoever is settled in 30X40
house had GOALS of having 30X40 house, and who settled in 60X40 house had goals
of having 60X40 house, similarly villas, and mansions and so on.
Kereya neeranu Kerege chelli
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