How to achieve your goals
Please take one step towards your goals and resolutions
Do it now
You cannot act in the past. It is only a memory and it may be mistaken.
You cannot act in the future. It is only a dream and it may be wrong.
You can act now. You can only act now. You owe it to yourself too.
In this individual movement you can choose to continue reading. You can choose to make a positive start on your goals now. In doing so, you create happiness for yourself because you create meaning in your life, which makes you feel fulfilled.
I read a brilliant quotation the other day: "Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.", Martin Luther King, Jr. Take one step now, then another. Continue.
Just my two cents; what do you think?
Quick tip: If you make your goals more specific, you’re more likely to achieve them: Change ‘be healthier’ to ‘eat three servings of fruit daily’ or ‘tidy my desk’ to ‘clear desk today’.
Just start!
What will you do? Write down your goals, at last? Choose an area of your desk to start decluttering? Play around with the code for your next great business idea?
I did all of the above today and now I’m going to do what I find hardest of all: Sleep, because in the rush to do it now, it’s important to remember you can’t do it all.
Good luck and do let me know how you’re getting on; I always love hearing from you.
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IanW
As you know, my mother always says the same thing; “Just think about now. Think about today. If today is too much, just think about the next hour or the next minute. Do whatever you need to do.”
I think it’s great advice, but I do appreciate that it’s hard to start on this path; it can take time to develop the mental willpower to stop looking further ahead.
You’re absolutely correct that it’s amazingly liberating to just start doing things!
Jan 15th, 2007
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