Achieving Your Goals
Do you have long-term projects with short-term expectations? If so, that is a sure path to disappointment and failure.
Lifestyle objectives such as exercise and healthy diet need to become habits in order to be effective. Career change also takes time and preparing, and it doesn’t happen overnight.
Your world has changed. There is pagers, e-mail, voice mail and faxes that have made a “waiting” period unacceptable and nearly gone. With information instantly available, we expect relationships and goal accomplishment to be done the same. As you read this, you know that it is unreasonable to expect that, don’t you? We have been led by advertisers to believe that we deserve immediate indulgence, and that it is readily and easily available!
When you want to train a puppy, you’re aware that it’s going to take time and regular reinforcement. You’re ready for that, because you would like your puppy to be on best behavior in a pleasant way. Then why, 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 objectives is to take a practical approach. Break your long-term project goal into sub-goals. Break it into achievable, short-term chunks. Today prepare the soil; tomorrow plant the seeds.
Each action you take and each step is fulfilling because you are aware that it is contributing to the accomplishment of your goal. You can’t hurry Mother Nature with your garden, and the same is true for your objectives.
This process is much more than “bloom where you’re planted”, because when you’re the gardener, you choose what to plant and how to nurture it. Do the same for yourself, and grow yourself wonderfully. Your objectives will be accomplished in due time, and you will not end up up-tight and exhausted.
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