ACCOMPLISHING GOALS

It is time to start accomplishing your goals. It’s time to begin what you are afraid you won’t finish. You can do it! Create a thought that will lead to the feeling you’re needing to motivate yourself. I promise the action will follow.

Two of the most common are: 

1. Not enough time 
2. Not enough money. 

Everyone has dreams and ambitions. Accomplishing goals is something we all strive for. We have serious goals we want to accomplish, but maybe we keep putting them off for one reason or another. We come up with excuses to justify our inaction. 

Sound familiar? On the contrary, if our car broke down or you had to get a life-saving treatment your insurance didn’t cover, we find the time and/or money. We make it happen because it is important to us. 

So why don’t we take that same action when it comes to our accomplishing our goals?  The reason we don’t take action is because of a thought in our minds. It sounds simple, but the thoughts we have either drive us or stall us. Let’s think about it. When we decide to buy a car, what thoughts drive us? 

The thoughts can be, “I need this car to be safe,” or, “this car will be more practical.” Whatever the thoughts, we eventually take action and buy a car. 

If you aren’t acting on something important to you, it’s because of your current thoughts. Figure out what those thought are. What feelings do those thoughts cause? The combination of our thoughts and feelings determine our action or inaction, so it is important to identify them.

Once you’ve pinpointed your thoughts, it’s time to put in the work to change them. Ask yourself how you want to feel once you’ve taken action. How do you think you’ll feel once you accomplish your goal? Take that feeling and work backwards to identify the thought you need to have to bring about that feeling. Those thoughts will soon transform your mind. As you start to believe those new, more empowering thoughts, you will feel driven to take the action that you want.