If you sat down and began identifying the dreams and goals you have had, what would you list? How many have you achieved? Now think about you today and what goals or dreams you have for your future?
In one of the presentations that I make for career directions, I address the importance of having, writing and achieving goals. Edgar Mays said, “Failure is not, not reaching your goal, but in having no goal to reach.” I find it interesting that statistically, the majority of the population does not write goals and yet research has proven that writing goals significantly increases our achievement rate. Just look at the number of weight loss programs advertised on TV and what they offer. They are centered on a goal, baseline data, a set of strategies and a monitoring plan. Success ensues as long as the plan is realistic and maintenance and monitoring occur. But all too often success is diminished because the plan is not maintained or monitored. Goals must be realistic, updated and the rest of the plan accordingly.
Now transfer that same rationale to career direction or anything we do in life that we want to improve upon. A friend, great golfer and talented Mind and Sports Performance Coach says it this way, “We can become afraid to raise the bar and set high expectations for ourselves so that we don’t have to feel the frustration and disappointment of what we mistakenly think of as failure. We can also set unreasonably high standards that we don’t really believe to be true and sabotage our efforts by becoming very unkind toward ourselves. Fear only exists because we don’t believe that we have the power inside of us to achieve absolutely anything that we want and desire through the power of the Mind. If we knew beyond a doubt that we could direct our focus, imagination and intention to create anything we wanted, we would never be afraid again.” – Tim Kremer www.myspiritofgolf.com
Creating the best you requires that you reflect on your own achievements, goals, talents, dreams and fears. Creating the best you requires a commitment to writing a plan. Have you shortchanged yourself by not having goals or giving in to fear of failure? What’s stopping you today?