A Few Techniques To Allow You To Reach Your Goals No Matter What They Are July 14, 2010
Posted by janey in : self improvement , trackbackDo you have long term projects with short term expectations? If you do, that’s a sure path to frustration and failure.
Lifestyle goals such as exercise and healthful diet have to become habits in order to be handy. A career change such as a new position or learning how to earn money at home also takes time and planning, and it doesn’t happen overnight.
Your world has shifted. There’s voice mail, email, pagers, and faxes that have made a waiting period unsatisfactory and almost out of date. With information right away available, we are expecting relationships and goal feat to be done the same. As you read this you know it’s unreasonable to expect that, don’t you? We’ve been controlled by advertisers to believe that we merit immediate gratification, and it is readily and easily available!
When you need to train a young dog, you know that it’s going to take time and consistent re-strengthening. You’re prepared for that, because you want your puppy to behave in an OK way. Why then, are you so patient with the puppy and so hard on yourself?
When you plant seeds in the garden, you tend them, water them, hope for sunlight and nurture them. Are you nurturing yourself?
The best way to move gently and effectively towards your goals is to take a fair approach. Break your long term project goal into sub-goals. Break it into attainable, short term chunks. Today prepare the soil ; tomorrow plant the seeds.
Each action you take and each step is satisfying as you know it is making a contribution to the completion of your goal. You cannot rush Mother Nature with your garden, and the same is correct for your goals.
This process is way more than “bloom where you are planted”, because when you are the gardener you choose what to plant and how to nurture it. Do the same for yourself, and grow yourself wonderfully. Your goals will be accomplished in due time, and you will not end up up-tight and frazzled.
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