January 4, 2011

How To Set Goals That You Will Actually Achieve

By Jeff Mays


A major obstacle that prevents people from enjoyably achieving their goals is that they set their goals incorrectly to begin with. This problem occurs because people don't understand the nature of time well enough. When people consider a particular goal, they often worry about the time commitment.

There's a saying that time is gold. This is evidently what we all believe. People are very practical when it comes to giving importance to time. The truth is that we are unenthusiastic to plan a goal that will take us to reach for so long. Some people are lack of patience to work hard for few years in order to achieve their goals.

Truthfully speaking, we will not be in the past or in the future but we are exists in the present. We can recall our past and picture out our future but we are still thinking all those things at our present life. We have to pay attention to our present life.

First, understand that you can only achieve anything in the present moment, and you can only enjoy those achievements in the present moment. You can't achieve anything or enjoy anything in the past or future because you're never there. That's obvious, isn't it? But too often people act incongruently with this fact. It's very difficult to achieve a goal that's based on an inaccurate model of reality and such a goal will surely be an uphill struggle.

First, bear in mind that you can only reach your goals at the present moment and you can be happy with those things that you have achieved in the present. You can't be happy and reach nothing in the past or even in the future because you are not there. That is very understandable right? But as always happen that we are so blind with this reality. It's so hard to reach a goal that is based on a bad example of reality.

Many people set goals and then assume the path to reach the goal will require suffering and sacrifice is a recipe for failure. A better idea is to set a goal and pay attention to the effect it has on your present reality. Set goals that yield a positive effect on your life whenever you think about them, long before the final outcome is actually achieved. Treat goal-setting as a way to enhance your present reality, not as a way to control the future.

Whatever goal you set, you have the option of envisioning a path of sacrifice and suffering by focusing on the illusion of the future or you can allow the goal to inject your present reality with new hope, enthusiasm, and motivation. Even though it seems like you're setting goals for the future, you're really setting goals for the present. The better you understand this, the more easily and enjoyably you'll achieve your goals.




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