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There has been so many articles or maybe tips about goal-setting. But do we really know what a goal can do to our lives? Why we need to have a goal? Here are some things that a goal can do:

• Generally improve our lives
• Gives us motivation towards work or tasks
• Make us realize what we really want in life
• Help us eliminate bad habits or traits
• Gives us focus towards achievement

These are just possible effects of having a goal in life. That is why we need to set a goal if we wish to achieve something. Remember that a goal is different from a wish or dream. Wishes and dreams are just things you like to happen without really doing something. Whereas a goal is something that you want to achieve and that you really do the things that will make you achieve it.

“To realize the value of one year, ask a student who failed a grade.  To realize the value of one month, ask a mother who gave birth to a premature baby.  To realize the value of one week, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.  To realize the value of one hour, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.  To realize the value of one minute, ask a person who just missed the train.  To realize the value of one second, ask a person who just avoided an accident.”

Time is gold, they say.  But time is precious than gold, isn’t it?  Gold may have great value but when you lost it, there is still a possibility that you can acquire it again.  But not with time.  Time moves forward and never in backwards, you can never go back to a specific date.

It helps big time to realize the importance of time.  It will cause us not to let go of opportunities, value every single minute we have and to do the things we want to do while we have the time.  A small delay in doing our tasks or the things for our goals in life is a time wasted.  We may be hesitant to do some things sometimes and it causes us delay.  What we need to do in this situation is to take the first step.  Just think of doing the first step and we’ll be all ok.  We sometimes think we could have succeeded already only if we have done the process the moment we have thought or we had the opportunity.  Do not think of failure, think of trying.  You will never succeed if you never try.  But the moment you fail to try, you already failed in your goal.

Time management is one of the effective ways in beating procrastination.  But it hardly works for us.  I think we have to plan out not just how to manage our time but how to make our plan work for us.  Here are some tips on how to make our time management plan effective:

• Motivation.  Motivate yourself hard in following what you have planned to do for a particular period of time or how you have planned to do your tasks.
• Patience.  It would be hard to adjust with your time management plan at firs if you are not used to it so you need a lot of patience.  Just think that this is for your success.
• Keep tracked.  Observe your performance and see how you have improved.  This will help you see if your plan works for you and how you can further improve.
• Revise your plan.  If you see that your plan is not really working for you, you can revise it until you get the perfect time plan for your tasks.

Procrastination will continue as a burden in achieving your goals until you do something about it.  Procrastination will only be beaten by ourselves.  No one can get procrastination out of us.  It is our choice to beat procrastination, others may influence us but the choice still lies in our hands.

Always defeated by procrastination?

There are these times when we really want to do something, like a project, to finish it early and won’t have any problems later on.  But procrastination is just so tempting during these times.  We may have wanted to fight it at times, but its just so tempting.  Its like the perfect time to do something else.  So how can you fight this off?

Perseverance.  Have perseverance over your goal.  Concentrate hard on reaching that goal and do not think of any excuses why you should do other things.  Sometimes we would have this excuse that we are not in the right mood to finish something or that its too noisy to study our lessons.  Every time we think of this, think of your goal.  Think of it like you have already succeeded to give you the motivation and would make you to persevere more.

Perseverance gives you more courage.  Fight procrastination with perseverance.  Think of it as an enemy that you want to defeat.  An enemy you won’t allow to overpower you.

Motivation is what we mostly need to keep ourselves from doing something or to help us achieve our goals. To get yourself motivated, you have to set your mind to it. So here is a simple strategy to keep yourself motivated. Think that you are lucky. When you wake up in the morning, or in starting your day, think and feel that this is your lucky day. When you feel lucky, you will be more positive towards your goal or the day ahead.

When you think that you are lucky, you will have to believe that you’ll be able to succeed with what you do and feel good about it. You will have less fear in doing things and will be more encouraged to work out your goals. You will be more motivated to achieve your goals because you feel like everything goes with your plans.

Feeling lucky is just a start for you to believe in yourself. I’m not really suggesting that you are indeed lucky. But just to use the idea that if you feel luck over yourself, you’ll be more positive towards your goal. It is important that you believe in yourself, so thinking that you are lucky may help.

Goal setting is all about planning.  What your goal should be, how you are going to achieve it, when you are likely to achieve it, and the likes.  But have we ever thought about what is there about our goal that we want it to achieve?  Of course, satisfaction or fulfillment.  But did you know that there is more to that?

Maybe some people would agree that aside from the goal we planned to achieve, there is a more important thing that we have achieved.  That is, the experience we gained and the lessons we learned that made us grow more as a person.  Don’t we treasure our achievement because of the hard times we went through because of that?  When you receive your first ever salary, you would want to buy something for yourself.  Let’s say, you bought a celphone, one that you really wanted to have and never acquired when you were a student, you would be very fond of it and would really treasure it because it represents your hard work.

In achieving our goals, we did not only achieved something we wanted.  But we have also achieved something that cannot be taken from us.  Those good or even bad moments that we would cherish just to succeed; our “downfalls,” where we learned to stand up; the friends we gained in our journey, and; our faith to ourselves and to God.  What you went through will serve as an inspiration and motivator to other people also.

Commitment is something you need if you really want to reach your goals. When you are committed to your goal, you will be eager to do anything to reach it. Do whatever it takes to achieve it. You should expect difficulties, new things or experiences, and boring times. These are the times that might discourage you to continue. But what you need to put in mind is that you should never give up. When you already expect these things, you will be more prepared.

Commitment comes with courage. You should be courageous enough to do some of the things that you are not used to do or first time to do just to reach your goals. In those times where you feel like giving up, you really need courage. You need the courage to face these difficulties. Be committed to your goal, take action and pass the trials.

To help you be more committed, envision the end result of your goal. This will motivate you to really stick to it. It is something you really want or need in life that you want to achieve. If you envision it, you will be more eager to achieve it.

While the mere prospect of making any kind of change can strike terror in the hearts of some underachievers, change never frightens or intimidates a winner. In fact, quite the contrary is true. Winners welcome the challenges inherent in implementing positive changes in their lives. Winners never shy away from a challenge because a little work is required. In fact, they thrive on the challenge of change. They know full well that anything worthwhile takes effort.

As you begin accomplishing your goals, one after another, you will uncover newer, bigger and more ambitious projects to pursue. This constant evolution of change insures you will continue to grow and improve with each passing day, continuously enhancing the quality of your life.

Winners love to sculpt, shape and mold their lives to their exacting specifications. Winners do not set tiny, uninspiring, easy to reach goals for themselves. Instead, they set imposing goals that motivate and move them to action. They aggressively pursue their goals, establishing an ambitious timetable for the achievement of each of their goals. Most importantly, they are more than willing to institute whatever changes deemed necessary to get them where they want to go.

by: Greg Hickman

source:www.motivational-inspirational-corner.com

People sometimes are not open to change. They live on what they have used to. But change, as stated above, helps a person improve, discover new things, and grow. As you try new things, it gives you more motivation to seek for better improvement. Striving for bigger dreams lets you learn more and grow better as a person. Don’t be afraid of aiming high, instead, get motivated to reach it.

Many of us are looking to have it all. We want
more success, greater happiness and harmonious
relationships (often termed abundance). We do our
best to apply the secrets of success we discover
over the years but still there are times when we
feel stuck.

This is normal.

Nobody can operate at 100% efficiency all of the
time. In fact, it is not only healthy and a good
idea to have down time it is also one of the best
ways to come up with new ideas that will propel
you forward past any obstacles that pop up.

Getting stuck is only a problem if it becomes
habitual - if you have a cycle of aiming high,
getting stuck and then searching for inspiration
to dig you out of the hole. That is a very
stressful way to live.

Does this sound like you?

You find yourself surfing the internet randomly
looking for something interesting to occupy your
mind while secretly you are hoping to stumble
upon an idea or some new insight that will
inspire you. This sometimes wastes hours of your
day.

I know. I make this mistake too when I forget to
stay aware of why I am online and what I want to
do.

Thankfully there is a better way. In fact there
are three great ways to kick start inspiration:

1. Supportive People

One great way to stay inspired and on track is to
surround yourself with loving, supportive people.
When you have people around you who believe in
your abilities there is nothing you cannot
achieve. Their belief and support will reignite
your passion to keep you moving towards your
ultimate destination.

2.  New Environment

Very often when I am stuck in my work I will shut
down my computer, put my PDA in my pocket and go
for a walk or go to a coffee shop. I find when I
am out in nature or in new surroundings I can
think more clearly. I can get unstuck by doing
this.

Then, when great ideas pop into my mind I make
notes on my PDA so I do not forget the solutions
later when I am back in the office.

3. Release the stuckness

The most elegant and powerful way to quickly move
beyond stuckness is to release that stuck feeling.

If you know how, it is possible to go, in a
matter of moments, from feeling stuck, apathetic
and confused to feeling inspired, ready for
action and excited about making your dreams come
through. It really is amazing.

I will tell you how to do this in a minute but
first let me explain why inspiration is so
important in helping you get what you want.

Inspiration is the spark that ignites abundance
in your life - an abundance of happiness, great
friends and wealth. Do understand, true abundance
means having the inspiration to dream big dreams
and the courage to make it happen.

If this is a life changing skill you would like
to have, the best place to learn how is at this
site:

How Inspiration Unlocks Abundance

I have used this approach since the summer of
1999 and it is remarkable the difference this
knowledge has made to my quality of life. I am
happier, wealthier and more at peace than I have
ever been.

All because of this single essential skill - the
ability to bounce back and get inspired at
anytime even when the odds are stacked against me.

Again, let me be clear, many people talk
about abundance - what that really means is
inspiration backed dreams. Get that right and
life becomes a magical experience.

Take a moment and check out the site for yourself
at:

The inspiration Secret and Effortless Abundance

All the very best,

Peter

P.S. Inspiration is no mystery once you know how
to unlock it on demand. When you do abundant
energy, happiness and success become the norm.

Do yourself a favor and get your hands on the
easy way to success today and not in ten years
time when everyone else is already using it. You
will kick yourself for wasting another ten years
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Inspiration for Easy Abundance

I just recently watched a movie about a training in the navy.  There’s this one fat guy who was not able to climb up on one of the obstacle course during the training mainly because of his weight and body built.  His company commander told them that they must pass through it for them to pass the training.

On that night, while they were supposed to be sleeping, he was telling himself, “before you achieve you must believe.”  It sounded like he was memorizing it loudly and his room mates were even disturbed.  But that hit them also because as the training progresses, it was getting harder.  That sentence was his motivator that he was really able to climb and pass through that obstacle course with the help of his room mate.  Though he didn’t completed the course on time, with a difference of four seconds only, the thing is, he believed that he will be able to climb that obstacle course.

Believing makes you achieve your goal.  It gives you the spirit to do what you thought you can’t do.  It also vanishes the thought of quitting.  So, before you achieve, you must believe!