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Powerful Words: Key to Achieving Your Goals

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Be mindful of the words you say to yourself and to others because these are sources of courage and strength that will lead you to achieve your goals. Be careful of your words because words are so powerful, they can build or destroy relationships.  They can can renew a whole society or lead people towards perdition. The words that you tell yourself.   Use motivational or inspirational quotes which can help you achieve your goal.   Make sure that the source of your motivational or inspirational quotes comes from a reliable and credible person.   Words help you reach your goal as your consciousness will absorb everything that you say. 100% of what you tell all the time becomes true. The words that you tell others. Use words which can help you build relationships with others.  These relationships will help support you reach your goal. Share words that are timeless and enduring so that people will actually remember them. 100% of the words you share wi...

Positive Results: Achieving Goals

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When you are achieving goals, you are actually thinking of positive results because achieving goals bring about positive results and these results make you happy.  Positive results or outcome are products of several positive actions which are geared towards achieving a goal.  Positive actions bring about positive results. These are examples of positive actions which are used to achieve your goals: 1. Work at a goal that you enjoy! Make sure it is worthy of your talent, time and effort. Then achieving your goal will not be a waste of time. 2. Give people more than what they are expecting from you and happily be of service to them.  Everybody loves a cheerful giver.  These people will eventually help you to achieve your goal. Be generous of your time and resources. 3. Maintain a positive and enthusiastic attitude. Learn how to forgive yourself and others.   4.  Always be grateful. If you are grateful then blessings will come into your life. 5. Be persis...

Aim Higher

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Indeed, you have a goal but sometimes when aim for a goal, you fall short in reaching that goal.  The effort you put into trying to reach a goal might not be sufficient.  The challenge is to aim higher than the goal.  If you aim higher than the goal, you increase the chances of reaching the goal by 100%. Aiming higher than what is expected gives you extra energy that you need to reach your goal.  The thought of putting more of this extra energy helps you with the achievement of your goal.

Reach Your Goals: Never Allow Your Past Mistakes Determine Your Future

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"Never allow your past mistakes determine your future."      Trying to reach your goal demands that you learn from mistakes.  There is a great chance that instead of learning from your mistakes, you might dwell on them and this hinders you from reaching your goal.  Learn from your past mistakes and move on towards achieving your goal.   1. Waste of time.  Dwelling on past mistakes is a waste of time.  It is counterproductive. Use your time in achieving your goal. 2. Waste of Energy.  Thinking makes use of your energy.  Most of the time your past mistakes will really drain you of your energy. Avoid it all cost. 3. Destroys your Creativity.  When you think about the past mistake, it destroys your creativity because your mind is cluttered by these mistakes.      When you allow your past mistakes to take over your consciousness, you limit the possibility of the achievement of your goals. ...

Avoid Distractions

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Avoid distractions! These distractions will veer you away from achieving your goals. Use every situation as an opportunity for you to reach your goal. If you really want to achieve your goals, time is really very valuable.  Having said this, you have to make use of your time well. Proper time management will help you decide on doing important things which will help you achieve your goals.  Here are a few tips on how to avoid distractions. 1. Time management. Immediately plan your day, month and year.  Time is wasted on doing things which are not very important. Although rest and relaxation is also important, you have to put it in your planner. 2. Identify distractions.  Distractions will occupy much of your precious time. List down the things you consider as distractions and do your best to make them as opportunities.  3. Post your goal.  Place your goal where you can see it all the time.  Have a copy of your goal posted near your computer w...

Learn from the Experts

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The best thing about life is that we can learn from the experiences of other people.  The richness of their experiences leads us to the understanding that we are all journeying towards reaching our goals in life.  Other people have their own experiences of failures and successes.  It is up to us to learn from them.  You do not need to experience the same failures, it is really best to avoid them.  Indeed, experience is the best  teacher but we, too, can learn from the experiences of other people. The happiest people are people who are able to reach their goal because they have learned from the experts.  Depending on the goal you want to achieve in life, you can always find several persons who are also trying to achieve those same goals. Just to give you an example, many years ago at the age of 21, I decided to learn the piano. My colleagues discouraged me from learning how to play the piano and they told me I was too old to learn the instrument....

Learn from the Past

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When you are trying to reach your goal, one of the greatest problems you need to deal with is your past experiences. Past experiences should help you attain your goals. These experiences are opportunities where you can learn things not delay you from reaching your goal.  Here are some tips you should carefully consider when dealing with past experiences. 1. Negative past experiences caused by other people.  These past experiences should be dealt with accordingly.  Never allow these experiences to stop you from reaching your goal. 2. Negative past experiences caused by yourself.  Learn from the mistakes you did in the past and immediately go forward and reach your goal. 3.  Positive past experiences caused by yourself.  Gain more inspiration from such experiences to help you reach your goal. 4.  Positive past experiences caused by others.  Learn from them and get also inspiration from these experiences. Do not postpone things because you ...

Losing is Winning

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Sometimes you get the idea that if you are not able to reach your desired goal then it is the end of everything.  In the process of reaching a goal, you might be going through the experience of losing. This concept is very difficult to understand because how can you win if your are losing.  It is best to discuss why losing is winning... 1.  Losing is temporary.  You might wonder why people become successful even if they go through a lot of difficulties in life.  Losing is just temporary because as you attempt reaching your desired goal, you will experience certain loses but learning from these loses means never giving up. 2. Losing gives you a sense of direction.  Sometimes you need to stop and evaluate your plans.  This will give you enough time to start again and start in a new direction.  You may pick up where you have left and start anew. 3.  Losing is Winning in Disguise.  It is important to understand that you have to go th...

Replace WORRIES with OPPORTUNITIES

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 Most of the time you will encounter difficulties especially when you are trying to reach a particular goal in your life.  As mentioned before in one of my postings, you really have to deal with difficulties as challenges.  While you encounter such challenges in your desire to reach a goal, there is the tendency to worry because we don't see clearly certain things in the future. 1. WORRYING IS A WASTE OF TIME. The best way to approach this situation is to turn WORRIES into OPPORTUNITIES.  When you worry, you waste so much time and at the same time you destroy much creativity which is needed for you to achieve your goal. Instead of worrying, focus on all the opportunities as you reach your goal.  Instead of putting your energy to useless worry, put all your energies by turning them into opportunities. For example, you worry about dealing with people you don't know while you aim at reaching your goal.  Instead of worrying about them, think of the oppo...

The Value of Silence in achieving goals

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The world in which we live is full of noise. A variety of noise can be found everywhere you go.  It is important to identify immediately the different noises in our lives because we really need silence in order to achieve our goals. "In silence, you will discover the inner longings of your heart and this will bring you to desire what you need to achieve." ---Alvin Bolanos Silence brings us closer to the inner reality of our being human beings.  Silence bring us to reflect on the things we do to achieve our greatest dreams.  Silence can also be used in prayer.  Even the greatest minds in our lifetime resorted to silence at the end of the day. In the Bible, we see Jesus retiring to a mountain or a garden just to be silent and pray. Silence brings one closer to seeing our own mission in life. Being quiet means, to stop all the inner noises and voices that we hear especially those of which can destroy the passion for achieving our goals. To be quiet leads us ...

Focus on your Target

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One of the most difficult thing in achieving a goal is when you focus on your target. It is difficult when you put your best efforts at focusing on your goal and then you miss the target.  Just imagine yourself hitting the bull's eye in a dart game. You have been focusing but it seems you are missing the target.  Give your best shot as you follow the rules of reaching your goal, 1. Check your readiness.  Do you have enough preparation in terms of time, equipment and financial resources in order to reach the goal.  You might be focusing in trying to reach the goal but due to lack of preparation you fail to reach your aim. 2. Check your energy level.  In order to reach the goal, you have to have enough energy to sustain the work required to reach the goal.  Your energy level determines the capacity of greater possibility in reaching your goal. 3. Check your target.  Your target must be realistic.  Something you can really reach if you give you...

How to deal with FRUSTRATIONS

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When you are trying to achieve a goal, you will encounter a lot of challenges and hindrances.  Always remember that these difficulties are part of achieving a goal in life.  Frustrations come when you give in to such challenges and hindrances because you consider them as negative things which delays you from achieving a goal. These are the things you can do in order for you not to give in to frustrations: 1.  Meet the Challenges head on.  Hindrances and other difficulties you encounter are just part of achieving a goal in life.  Such difficulties should be seen as positive things which will help you clarify your goal. 2. Positive Outlook on hindrances.  Learn from the difficulties you encounter.  The best way to learn from them is to see them as part of achieving a goal. 3. Everyone encounters difficulties.  Difficulties should not bring you down.  All people go through a certain challenging situations but it should wear you down. ...

A Worthy Goal leads to Happiness

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Is your goal, a worthy goal?  Is it a goal that leads you towards happiness?  All efforts are directed into achieving a worthy goal in life.  Such worthy goal brings out the best in you and it leads you towards happiness. Happiness as it is a result of reaching your desired goal every day.  Happiness is not something you find at the end of the goal. It is found in the daily step towards your goal. A worthy goal is something that brings you happiness as you reach it and at the same time, the result of which is you also make others happy. A worthy goal is not something temporary.  It is long-lasting.  However, in order to discover such a worthy goal, you must really think about it and make sure and be aware that along the way to reaching your goal, you bring out the happiness in you.  It is not the absence of pain or difficulty but happiness removes all worries and challenges you to reaching your goal. 

Your Health and Your Goal

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In your desire to move forward and accomplish your goal in life, you must take good care of your health.  Neglecting one's health as you achieve your goals will have devastating results in the future.  These are the things you should always remember to help you achieve your goal, 1. Healthy Relationships:  The best way to reach your goal is for you to surround yourself with positive and healthy relationships.  Avoid the persons who will not help you achieve your goal because of their negative approach. Maintain healthy relationships and connections with people who will help you reach your goal. 2. Healthy Lifestyle:  A healthy lifestyle brings you the best benefit in achieving your goal. You need to be in top shape if you want to reach your goal in life.  It will be difficult to accept that after you reach success, you end up paying for it because you have sacrificed your health.  A lot of people became successful at the price of going to the hospi...

Know your Weakness

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We always say that you must focus all your energies in achieving a goal.  It is true that you must focus all your energies into reaching the goal/s you set. However, you must also consider those things which could possibly drain your positive energies. 1. Anger:  In your desire to reach your goals, you want everybody around you to do what you want.  Your goals might be clear to you while others might not see them as clearly as you do.  Instead of giving in to your anger which puts you into too much stress and drains all your positive energies, communicate your ideas clearly and passionately without anger.  Enjoy doing this so that people will understand you more. 2. Procrastination:  Others call it preserving your energy but when you procrastinate, you might feel that you are restoring energy but it backfires.  Such energy when not put into good use immediately tend to disappear.  The original energy that you should have placed into achieving ...

Use the Right Words to Achieve your Goals

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The mind works so well if you put in the right words. Using the right words bring you closer to achieving your goals you set for yourself. Keep in mind the following things: 1. Positive Words. Avoid using words that will put your spirits down. Positive words motivate you to conquer your difficulties in achieving your goals. 2. Exact words. Always use the exact words when achieving your goals. Focusing on achieving your goals need clear and exact words. 3. Repeat chosen words. Constantly repeating the chosen words will help you achieve your goals. It reminds you of the things you need to accomplish. Put these words into writing.

Mental Fitness in Achieving Goals

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It is small wonder why there some people who can actually achieve something in less time while others find it difficult to do things.  Primarily, everything starts with the right frame of mind.  Our thinking abilities depend so much also on our mental fitness. Of course, you may say that I'm mentally fit, I can handle certain difficulties.  Yes, most of us may be considered mentally fit and we can actually handle certain challenges.  However, being mentally fit means that your mind is free from things which can delay the achievement of a goal. 1. Stop Worrying.  Don't waste precious time by worrying.  Worrying causes stress and leads you to greater worries. Worrying decreases the way you organize your thoughts and it also destroys creativity. 2. Focus on Solutions.  Achieving goals means focusing on solutions rather than problems.  Problems sometimes can paralyze you.  The best way to deal with problems is to think of solutions.  If ...

The Enemy of Achieving Goals --> Wasting Time

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The greatest problem we all have to deal with every time we start achieving our goals is that we procrastinate.  We all have reasons why we procrastinate. We'll identify them one by one and deal with them. We should begin working on the task of achieving goals by doing these things:  1. Deal with Fear -  Some people procrastinate because of the challenges they need to face in achieving their goals.  The best way is to deal with this is to immediately identify the fear and identify where it is coming from.  This is the single best way to handle this problem. Most of these fears are just ghost fears which means they don't really exist in reality. 2. Write your Plans -The best way to deal with procrastination is to have a list of things to do in achieving the goal.  Organizing the things you need to do saves you precious time. 3. Get Support -  All we need to do is look for someone who can remind us from time to time.  Especially when ...

Bringing out the best in you...

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A worthy goal brings out the best in you... the effort you give in achieving your goal is a continuous process of discovering one's potential.  There is no limit in what we can do, however, we must learn how to use all our talents and skills to be able to achieve one's goal. The best comes out when you meet challenges along the way as you reach your goals.  Never give up on achieving your goal. The best way is to learn how to understand oneself. Greater understanding leads to knowing your strengths and weaknesses. May your goal bring out the best in you.

Enjoying every step of the way...

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When a person has a clear goal in mind... such a goal must be a happy one...A worthy goal leads you to true happiness... because it seeks not only one's happiness but the happiness of those people whom we seek to serve.  A goal is something that leads us to true wealth which is not just measured by material possessions. Enjoying every step of achieving one's goal means enjoying everything that you do.  You have to understand that you'll meet challenges along the way.  You need to enjoy these challenges because they are just part of achieving your goal. Enjoy the heat of the sun, enjoy the cool air in the mornings, enjoy the people you meet every day... enjoy achieving your goals in life.

Making Choices

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If one has a clear goal, there must be a way to reach that goal.  Identifying a goal means choosing a worthy goal.  A goal which leads you to true happiness. In order to reach a particular goal in one's life, one must be clear also on what are the things one must do in order to reach the goal. Organization and planning are two important things you have to consider before embarking on a goal. Having said this, in order to reach a goal, one must give up certain things which are not helpful in achieving one's goals.  Giving up these things require making choices.  More often than not, a lot of people nowadays have difficulty making choices on what to give up. Hence, a lot of people nowadays fail to reach their goals in life. Today, as you continue in your journey in achieving your goal/s in life, make the right choices... make good choices...Avoid negative things that are not part of your plans in life.