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How To Achieve Goals Without Tying Yourself In Knots




 
 

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 How To Achieve Goals Without Tying Yourself In Knots
© Rosamunde Bott 2008

Are you spending so much time finding out how to achieve goals, that you're not actually doing anything about it?

In pursuing goals and objectives, there are mainly three types of people:  Those who make things happen, those who hope things happen and those who wonder what happened.

All of these people will see results, but only those in the first category are likely to see the results they want.  People who make things happen are usually those who have a vision, focus on it and take the appropriate steps to reach that vision.  No matter how much we visualise, make affirmations, plan, chant and/or feng shui our house, nothing will happen without action.

In the dot-com era tehre was an operating term which summed up the idea of getting to the market speedily, and that was:  Ready, Fire, Aim. 

Although I usually advocate doing some planning, I do see the point of this.  Sometimes we can spend so much time in preparation and planning that we lose momentum and the excitement and passion that we had when we first had the idea get weakened.

If we try to get things too perfect before we start, we can analyse ourselves right out of any kind of commitment.  We get delayed and too involved in the small details that, at the end of the day, are not really that important.

It is far better to start something before you are 100% ready.  This does not mean leaping in blindly without any research or forward thinking, but to actually start the ball rolling while the fire and passion are still in effect.

This reminds me of one of my favourite quotes by Goethe:

"Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.  Begin it now."

It is far better to begin something, and tweak it as you go along, rather than wait until every single little detail is in place.  There is so much more energy in it than something that arrives perfectly formed.

The action of getting it started will provide you with motivating forward momentum, and the fact that it's not perfect will galvanize you into action now that your project is in the public domain. 

This energy and excitement will help you to attract the people, opportunities and resources that you need to get your project moving to the next step.

One of the trainers in Success University said something very similar which serves as a very good example.  He said that if you're going to set up a website, it's far better to have an ugly website published immediately, than a perfect, beautiful one published 2 months later.  Why lose out on 2 months of possible sales?

Also, by launching a project (be it a website, business or anything else) before it's ready you will be able to get valuable feedback from the market or from results, and adjust as you go along.  Far better to do this with feedback from the people that matter, than from your own untried ideas.

Have you ever held back on an idea or project because it occurred as just too big, or too complicated?  Or did you foresee too many obstacles? 

Perhaps you went ahead anyway, or perhaps you didn't.  But I would be willing to bet that those who went ahead anyway soon found that it was easier and simpler than once thought, and any foreseen problems were sorted out along the way.  And perhaps you even felt more optimistic about achieving your goals now that everything was moving.

There's no mystery about this.  Taking the first step is a success in itself, and success always creates further success.

Too much planning can tie you up in knots, and when you're tied up you can't move.

There is one thing I can say for absolute certain: if you don't move, you won't get anywhere.

So, don't get too tied up in working out how to achieve goals: get started, take the first step and you may find that the answers come easily.


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