"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck." Dalai Lama
"A goal properly set is halfway reached." Zig Ziglar
These quotes are two ways of looking at getting what you want in life. They both address the same issue. Choose your goals or desires for life thoughtfully. Below are seven questions to ask yourself when setting and working toward what you want in life.
1. What do you want?
Life has an abundance of opportunities for you. You are limited by your choices. Choose well.
2. Why do you want that?
Check your motives. Choices motivated by immoral or unethical foundations will not fulfill or satisfy you.
3. What stops you?
Identify and examine the obstacles in the path between you and your choice of opportunity or desire.
4. Why is it like that?
After identifying the obstacle, take the time to examine and obliterate it. Often your obstacles will be internal. You may need to overcome your fear or change your belief system about what you are able to do.
5. How have you been perceiving this as a problem until now?
What has been stopping you until now? Look at the path to your desire from all directions. Maybe there is a direction you haven't considered yet.
6. What would you like to believe?
After thinking about the obstacles in your path and after thinking about what needs to change to obliterate the obstacles, consider how your life will be without the obstacles. Are you ready to take the actions needed? What will you believe about yourself? Are these thoughts empowering and positive?
7. What would happen if you could?
Look into the future. Imagine your life after achieving your goal. You may find fear in your future imaginings. You may see a fear of success. Examine this and accept this fear. You will be ready for it when you face it.
Good luck in choosing your goals and achieving them. :)
"A goal properly set is halfway reached." Zig Ziglar
These quotes are two ways of looking at getting what you want in life. They both address the same issue. Choose your goals or desires for life thoughtfully. Below are seven questions to ask yourself when setting and working toward what you want in life.
1. What do you want?
Life has an abundance of opportunities for you. You are limited by your choices. Choose well.
2. Why do you want that?
Check your motives. Choices motivated by immoral or unethical foundations will not fulfill or satisfy you.
3. What stops you?
Identify and examine the obstacles in the path between you and your choice of opportunity or desire.
4. Why is it like that?
After identifying the obstacle, take the time to examine and obliterate it. Often your obstacles will be internal. You may need to overcome your fear or change your belief system about what you are able to do.
5. How have you been perceiving this as a problem until now?
What has been stopping you until now? Look at the path to your desire from all directions. Maybe there is a direction you haven't considered yet.
6. What would you like to believe?
After thinking about the obstacles in your path and after thinking about what needs to change to obliterate the obstacles, consider how your life will be without the obstacles. Are you ready to take the actions needed? What will you believe about yourself? Are these thoughts empowering and positive?
7. What would happen if you could?
Look into the future. Imagine your life after achieving your goal. You may find fear in your future imaginings. You may see a fear of success. Examine this and accept this fear. You will be ready for it when you face it.
Good luck in choosing your goals and achieving them. :)
and then there is that whole challenge of submitting to a will beyond your own...but goals are good to have otherwise we would never get anywhere..
ReplyDeleteHopefully prayer for guidance in the choosing would fall in the submission to a higher power arena. :)
ReplyDeleteI'm not a good goal setter. I tend to sit by and watch things develop and then wonder why I didn't prepare ahead of time. thanks for the list.
ReplyDeleteI have found that Dalai Lama quote to be true!
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