Have you ever wondered why most of the time, you do not get
what you strongly desired, or you just don’t achieve those goals you would have
set for yourself and in most cases you tend to believe that life is so miserable and does not give
you what you want or what you would have planned. I know of late you have heard
of the famous characteristics of goals, which are specific, measurable, attainable,
realistic and time bound and you gave applied it but to no avail. A goal is
simply a dream with a deadline, which means it all starts with a dream which
Charles Hedges said,” A dream is not something that you wake up from, but
something that wakes you up.” It all starts with a dreams and the reasons most
of you have been not getting their goals or even closer to them is very simple,
‘You are firing amiss’
It is not the number of firings that suddenly brings down the
enemy but it is the number of targeted firings that suddenly brings it down.
Most of you have been misfiring all this time. You have been doing a lot of
misdirected efforts and no matter how hard you have been trying or for how long
you have been sweating. You have been wasting time on things that do not matter
and not only which do not matter but those that do not bring you the desired
results. You spent so much time on the SMART goals that you forget that more is
needed for action. Action produces results and not only action produces desired
results but directed action produces desired results. I know you have been
directing your efforts of late, but it could you have been misdirecting your
efforts. You have been setting goals too high for yourself, not too high for
your dreams but too high for your capability.
All Power Formula
I have a formula that has quite worked very well for me of
late and I believe that it could still do for you. I know most of you have
mastered the art of goal setting and you have been reading hard for the test,
working hard to achieve that which the heart desires but as I said, you might
have been using the course outline. The course is very simple but it’s possibly
that you missed it from the background information or studies. The art of goal
getting has become very simple and the formula is not even different from your
SMART. The concept here is very simple, you should work on improving your
capacity, so my goal has been on working on improving my capacity.
If you want to drive a very big mill, you need to increase
your motors to match the demand, most people you spent much of your time on
increasing the output cables and channels and expecting results. At the end of
the day you do not get the desired results, and it might not be that you are
not having SMART goals but it is that you not increasing your capacity.
Your work point should be on improving yourself to increase
your capacity. Your SMART goals should be directed on increasing capacity and
not on what you desire and with this powerful formula you will start seeing
things change in your life. You will start seeing goals being achieved, dreams
unfolding into reality.
If you need more money or capital for your
project, the goal might be I need to improve my financial management tactics
and work more on financial intelligence. If you need to pass successful a job
interview, your goal might be I need to improve my confidence and interview
techniques instead of saying I want more job opportunities. Work on improving
yourself and your focus should be on things beyond your control. Every goal can
be achieved as long as you put your focus on things you can change.
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