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How creating a simple plan and setting targets can change your career and lifestyle
Everyone dreams, many millions of people dream of themselves in a situation where they are the hero, not only the one capable of all the great acts of bravery, the one that comes to the rescue of someone in distress, or saves someone at the last second, but they see themselves as the top man in marketing, top salesman in their organisation, the top negotiator in financial transactions, the one who scores a double century in cricket, scoring the winning goal in a cup final, the manager of a world cup winning team, a famous singer, public speaker or leader.
Whatever the situation, they are the one that makes all the right moves, makes the right decisions and is the finest in their field. However, in real life they are stuck in a rut, the same low paid job for the last twenty or thirty years, no excitement in their lives, afraid to stand out from the crowd. Why is there such a difference between their dreams and their lives?
People have their dreams but most do nothing about them. They need a goal to work to; a reason to achieve the goal, they need to make the decision to ‘go for it,’ a simple plan of action, sufficient mental or physical ability to achieve their particular target, the right attitude of mind, the confidence and determination to carry it through, experience or training, willpower, ability to focus, support, and top of the list they need to take action.
That doesn’t sound much does it? The key to success is all contained in the last paragraph, yet so few people achieve it. Let’s look at the list of requirements again.
1 Goals Best written down so that you can distinguish and express exactly what you want to achieve. Written and displayed so that you can read them every day hence they become implanted in your mind. At least 90% of people fail to do this. Do you write down your goals? Do you have a target to aim for?
2 Reasons You must have a reason why you want to succeed. It will take you out of poverty, it will give you certain luxuries, it will.
3 Decisions Can you make a decision? To generate any form of success in life decisions have to be made, a wrong decision is better than no decision, a wrong decision can be changed and progress made, no decision means no progress.
You need to make that decision ‘I am going to…’
4 Planning Have you made plans? Without a plan you can go round and round in circles never achieving anything. Without a plan do you build the roof, the walls or the foundations first?
5 Mental or physical ability This can be a major barrier where many more people fail to make progress, however, many great writers and speakers with dyslexia found ways to triumph over this setback and people with amputations have made a career in sports. If you have some sort of restriction, can you find a way round or overcome it with the right training?
6 Attitude With the right attitude anything can be achieved. The old saying is if you think you can, you are right, and if you think you can not, you are also right. What is your attitude?
7 Confidence Another major stumbling block, does lack of confidence hold you back? You can learn to build confidence. Each step forward will increase confidence.
8 Experience/training People can learn from their mistakes, however, experience or the willingness to train will move you in the right direction quicker.
9 Willpower The old saying ‘When the going gets tough, the tough get going’ nothing could be truer, many people fall by the wayside when things start getting hard. Have you got the determination and tenacity to keep going?
10 Focus Do you know how to focus? Lack of focus allows obstacles to get in your way. Learn how to prioritise so that you can focus on the important.
11 Support There are many self made millionaires, however, they all had some form of support to reach that situation. It may have been the support of a team or a whole organisation, or just the simple support of an understanding wife prepared to work with him at times of stress.
12 Action This is probably the greatest obstacle of all that stops success, would you rather watch TV than put action into your own success? Without action there is nothing.
I am certain everyone would like to be successful. Motivational Coaching provides the mindset and guidance to assist your progress in the direction of your dreams
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