Action On Your Goals

Chances are you’ve read countless books and articles on how to improve yourself, professionally and personally. You may have even attended a self-improvement or business enhancement workshop or two. But if you’re like the majority of people, despite all this knowledge, your professional and personal life has not changed at all. What went wrong?As with all things in your life, you have a choice to make.

In this case your choice is clear:
Are you going to apply what you’ve learned in pursuit of a better life or business, or are you going to file this knowledge away and stay in your comfort zone?
Realize that action is the key to making positive changes in your life. Without action, knowledge is lost. Inaction will not result in fulfillment.

There is only one thing standing in the way of achieving all that’s possible:
You! If you make the conscious choice to sit back and watch the world go by without ever making an attempt at achieving your goals, you will experience profound regret in your life. Unfortunately, many people remain idle in the face of challenges and make the decision to stay put in a life of discontent—to remain in a job that brings them no satisfaction and to remain in a world of unhappiness. These people take a passive approach to life. When opportunities present themselves, these people don’t act.

They’re not prepared. It’s one thing to know what to do;
it’s something entirely different to put that information to good use and turn knowledge into action. If you don’t take the necessary action, you will be left watching opportunity after opportunity pass you by, wondering what might have been.If you’re ready to take action and make some serious changes in your life, keep the following points in mind.

1. Don’t let fear hold you back. You cannot let the fear of the unknown or the fear of failure prevent you from taking the necessary action to succeed. You must stick with your vision even when times get tough. Napoleon Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich (Hill 1987), put it beautifully. “There is no substitute for persistence! It cannot be supplanted by any other quality! … Those who have cultivated the habit of persistence seem to enjoy insurance against failure.
No matter how many times they are defeated, they finally arrive near the top of the ladder.”So do not go on believing that the path to success will be without obstacles and challenges. You will certainly have tough times. But don’t let any misconceptions lull you into inaction and eat away at your dreams. Know that all great accomplishments come despite hardship, not in its absence. You have to be aware and prepared, and you must match your vision with action.

2. Eliminate regrets.
The regret of never trying to make the most of your potential will far outweigh any bumps you will encounter along the way. There really is no limit to what you can do with your life. It is sometimes hard to imagine what you will not get out of life if you do not take action. That is a difficult concept for people to get their head around. However, when faced with the idea of finally taking action, many people quickly create a long list of what could wrong and why they should stay in their comfort zone.
In fact, most people would never run out of reasons when asked to point out all of the reasons why they shouldn’t try to do something. Yet, the moment you ask them to create a vision for what they want out of life, they suddenly lose their creative prowess. When it comes to their approach to life, too many people don’t think about what they are losing, because they never had it. This is a flawed way of thinking. You can be whatever you want to be. It is never too late or too early. And make no mistake, by choosing to sit idly by without taking responsibility for what happens in your life, you are giving up a tremendous amount. Just because you might not be able to touch it yet doesn’t make it any less real.

3. Look at your life in totality.
If you are looking for professional and personal fulfillment, you have to look at the whole picture, your daily life in totality. You will be unable to block off ten hours of your day for work and then expect to live the rest of each day in happiness, forgetting about work completely.
Work is a part of life; therefore, to live a true life of fulfillment, you must make work part of the total equation. This does not mean you can’t lead a happy life if your job isn’t ideal. It simply means that you can absolutely make your job part of the larger vision for your life where work is exciting and anticipated instead of unfulfilling and dreaded.So make the time to learn about yourself. Find your purpose.
Put in the effort to create a specific vision. Develop the goals and the plan that will turn that vision into your reality. And most of all, take action. Don’t stop with a dream. Take the action that will truly define who you are. Separate yourself from those that only talk about things. You are unique, and you have unlimited potential. These gifts can only be offered to the world if you take action. You were meant to express yourself and contribute your talents. You will make yourself happy, and this will undoubtedly be radiated to those around you.

4. Incorporate more meaning into your life.
Everyone has moments of happiness that they experience. When you can add that extra element of meaning, you will take yourself to a higher level altogether. Think about your job. Have you ever found yourself asking, “Why am I doing this?” Well, if you are not really very interested in what you are doing, you will not truly care about your job, and it will show. But how do you behave when you are excited about something or truly care about the result? Do you act differently? You bet you do.
You don’t even think about the time or effort you put into reaching your goal. You just do it. Period. No matter what.Let’s say you are into woodworking. Is it a chore for you to build an addition to the back deck? Of course not. Why not? Because you love doing it. You are excited about planning it, getting the materials, and hey, you might even need to go to the hardware store and buy a new tool! These are not inconveniences; they are requirements, and you don’t mind a bit. Now what if you were then asked to build an addition to a wildlife rehabilitation clinic and you happened to have a passion for working with animals. Now you are talking about real fulfillment. The feeling associated with such a scenario is what you give up when you settle for a life of the mundane.

Take Action TodayYou can discover your purpose, create a vision, and set your goals, but if it is not followed up by action, it is meaningless. Action is the critical component that leads you to a fulfilling life. As obvious as it might seem, taking action is the part of the equation that is most often overlooked. Nobody is going to do this for you. There are three reasons why you need to picture the life of your dreams. One is to help clarify what it is you really want, two is to create your destination and the road map in getting there, and three is to make you realize just what you are giving up in choosing not to take action.

This does not mean that the life you are currently living is any less valid than the life of anyone else. It simply means that you have the capability to make changes and create a life for yourself that is in keeping with your purpose.Remember the words of Earl Nightingale, “Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”

This is an ongoing process. It will take effort. Taking action is hard work, but it can be fun too. That is why it is so important to be involved in something that you believe in. Because if you feel as though you are working hard out of sheer necessity, and not by choice, you will understandably feel discouraged.

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What Will You Do With Your One Wild And Precious Life

What will you do with your one wild and precious life?

That's what Anita Roddick - founder of international cosmetics company The Body Shop asked of herself and the staff at her company.

What a question. On the one hand a call to take action on the other a rebuke - what could you be doing that you are not?

For many of us it is the latter as inevitably so many of our dreams fall by the wayside as we find ourselves living a life "less wild" perhaps than the one we imagined. That's not to say we don't like aspects of our lives. We just thought there might be a bit more to it that what perhaps we have.

But does it have to be that way?

Anita was an explosion of ideas and activity. She built a multi-million pound business from a small town in England and seemed never to lose her passion or enthusiasm for life. The drive and energy of people like Anita are inspiring and sometimes looking at the achievements of others its difficult not to feel overwhelmed. Why do certain people achieve so much while others of us seem to get stuck.

The fact is that we can't all be like Anita and to be honest we know that we are not that sort of person anyway. But we do have our own interests and passions and it is these that can bring us the joys and satisfaction of a wild and precious life.

Ok you don't want to found an international company but how much better to be doing something, anything and doing it with passion because it is your passion.

So what will you do with your one wild and precious life?

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Top 3 Secrets How to Make Your Goals Come True

Many people set their goals to achieve what they want in their life. However, most of them fail to achieve their goals most of the time. This is not because goal setting does not work; it is because they are using the wrong approach to make their goals come true.

If you are serious in achieving your goals, you must put in 100% commitment and decide that you will do whatever it takes to achieve them. Many do not have the commitment and hence they are not doing anything after they have set their goals. You know it very well that if you are not doing anything, you will never achieve anything.

So how can you achieve your goals? By following through the top 3 secrets how to make your goals come true, I believe that achieving your goals will be an easy and fun task…

1. Nothing is going to happen if you are just writing down your goals without doing anything. So the first thing you need to do to make your goals come true is to make sure that you take at least 3 action tasks that will bring you toward your goals. Remember, success is about getting things done. Plainly writing down your goals on a piece of paper is not enough; you need to actually work on it.

2. You have to force yourself to take action by burning all the exits so that you have no other alternatives but to achieve your goals. How can you do so? Very simple, by making a public commitment and tell everyone about your goals. When you do so, you know that you have no other choice but to achieve your goals. However, you have to make sure that you are able to turn negative forces like teasing from friends into positive energy that drives you through.

3. The last thing you can do is to reward yourself whenever you have achieved anything, be it your small goals, big goals or the daily action task that you are supposed to do. When you do this, you are training your mind and telling yourself to be more discipline. On the other hand, punish yourself if you procrastinate or delay the action that you are supposed to take.

These are the top 3 secrets how you can make your goals come true. By following through the 3 secrets that I mentioned above, achieving your goals will be a mission possible and it is going to be something fun.

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Find Your Dreams

Realizing that all possible realities exist is a mind boggling experience. It can give you a new perspective on the concepts of visualization and inspiration.

Literally there is nothing that you could possibly imagine that could not exist somewhere some how in the infinite possibilities. Have you ever thought about the idea that your dreams (be they the dreams you have when sleeping or the dreams that goals and visions are made of) are all windows into an alternate reality? The fact that they are not as continuous in nature as our everyday life does not make them any less real.

"What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can hear, what you can smell, taste and feel then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain." -The Matrix

If you follow quantum physics at all or even have a vivid imagination, you may subscribe to the concept of multiple universes all existing simultaneously. These other realities are infinite and different because of the infinite amount of choices that nature may take when unfolding the reality or in the choices that people make. These vary from the most simple to the most complex of choices. In other words, there is a reality that exists now where I never wrote this blog and you are not reading it right now. There is also a reality where you where never born because your parents did not meet. You get the idea. To explore this idea in great detail, I recommend Rob Bryanton's book and blogs "Imagining the Tenth Dimension."

If you do subscribe to the 'multiverse' or the idea that because of the infinite amount of ways reality can unfold, all possibilities exist simultaneously; then you must entertain the notion that there is nothing that you can possibly picture, or imagine that does not exist in one of these infinite realities! Looking at it in these terms, it is as if your imagination, inspiration, intuition, and the like are all ways to tune into what else is out there; what else is possible. This means that even the abstract nature of a sleepers dream can actually exist some where out there.

The fact is that we as observers, in effect, are co-creators of our reality. The very act of observing is collapsing a wave function of possibilities into one particular experience of reality. This is, in a way, moving through the infinite amount of possible realities mentioned earlier. What we think and what actions we take will affect what we observe. We can actually navigate through these infinite possibilities to get to a desired destination. We actually "find our dreams!"

Any time a person accomplishes a goal that was only an idea before it was tangible, they navigated from one reality to another. They moved from the reality where their idea was only a vision to the reality where their vision was materialized. They found their dream. Will you find your dreams?

BY: C. Om

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