Take Charge Today! 5 Tips to Guide You in Reaching For Your Goals

      

  

Here are a few things that will guide you through the process of taking appropriate action.

• Examine where you are currently versus where you need to be. This should be a quick self examination. It is not supposed to take too much time, rather you are candidly examining your life to determine how much progress you need to make. The end point of this is that you make a decision that you will actually attain to what you truly desire in life.
• Act now! Yesterday was the best time to start, and today is the next best day. The natural response is to think that it is premature to take immediate action, but the truth is that there will never be perfect conditions for you to begin to take action. You have a set goal, as you go along you will have to make course corrections to ensure that you hit the “bull’s-eye”.
• Embrace the law of momentum. An object in motion will require less energy to increase its pace when compared to a stationary object. Also it is much easier to stir a ship that is already in motion. As you work at the various areas of your life that need improvement, you will need to make turns, and there will be new opportunities that will come your way. However, since you are already taking necessary steps, you will be able to make the best of these opportunities that come your way. This beats sitting around and waiting for something to come your way. You’re pretty much grabbing life by the horns.
• Focus. One challenge for many is that there are so many things that need “fixing”. However you can address each of the issues in bite sizes. Focus on the overall goal, and then on the one thing at the moment. It’s also important to note that you need to focus on keeping the right attitude. Be positive, be conscious and keep your enthusiasm up.
• Be diligent. Persistence is a major key to achieving breakthrough. Diligence speaks of persistent application of oneself to accomplish a task. There will be obstacles and challenges along your way, but you must remain committed to getting what you want out of life. Think about a stonecutter hammering at a rock, he hammers ninety-nine times, but nothing seems to happen. On the one-hundredth blow, the stone cracks. He knows that it wasn’t the last blow that broke the stone, but all one hundred blows were responsible.

One final thing I will leave you with is to avoid the inspiration trap. Most people are waiting for inspiration before they act. The problem is that inspiration usually comes un-announced, and it can only take you so far. But you can set yourself in motion, working diligently towards your goal, and inspiration is sure to come along the way, giving you  a burst of energy that will propel you to the goal that you truly desire.

Now take action, and make it a great life!