I'm sure you've already heard a thousand times how important it
is to set goals. You've heard the saying; if you don't know
where you're going, how will you know when you get there.
Thousands of successful people attribute most of their success
to goal setting. Knowing this, why don’t the majority of
people set goals?
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Goal setting starts within you. Your have to believe it's
possible to do a thing before you will have a strong desire to
write it down on paper and take steps to make it happen.
How do you possibly bring yourself to believe in your own
success? After all, so many of you have been at this success
thing for a while and it still hasn't happened for you.
Companies that you believed in and worked hard for have failed,
your family and friends are waiting for you to "be
realistic", and life just keeps giving you one blow after
another. But there's a small fire burning inside of you. You
keep at it because all you know is you can't continue to get up
every morning, go to work for someone else and allow them to
determine how much you're worth each week (which is far below
you true value).
So where do you go from here? Where do you start today? The
road to inner belief in your success begins with you telling
yourself everyday, throughout the day, that you can do what you
set out to do, you can have what you set out to get, you can be
that successful person you know lives inside of you. Yes
obstacles will come, doubters will be around, but don't you be
one of them.
Treat yourself like the person you love and care about most.
If you had a child who had a paper route and they wanted to
accomplish a goal but they kept running into obstacles, what
would happen? They would soon become discouraged with so many
people telling them no, I'm not interested in what you have to
offer. What would you say to your child? I'm sure it wouldn't be
the same thing you've been saying to yourself. Turn you words
around. Speak those same words of encouragement you would speak
to your discouraged child, to yourself. If you would never put a
loved one down, especially when they are feeling discouraged why
would you do that to yourself? You have the power within to stop
it right now and turn it around.
Be committed from this point forward, to speak words of
encouragement to yourself. The mind is an amazing thing. You can
convince yourself of anything over time. If you repeatedly tell
yourself everyday, throughout the day, how successful you are,
how capable you are, you will not only start to believe it, you
will start to live it. Setting goals will become something that
you look forward to because you know that you know within that
all things are possible to him who believes. Watch your words.
You can do this success thing!
