If you don't care where you are going, it's easy to get there.
On the other hand, if you have a specific destination in mind, planning your route ahead of time
makes the journey much more enjoyable and increases the probabilities of a successful outcome.
If you can conceive it, and you believe it, you can achieve it. There is almost nothing that once you
set your mind to doing, cannot be done. The power of your mind is limitless. Our biggest limits are
those that are self imposed. Everyday you can test the limits of your mind power by willing success
upon yourself. I don't know why everyone doesn't do it. Perhaps at some point in their lives, they
encountered some resistance and they decided that they were just not meant to succeed. Maybe
these people need to be reminded that successful people are not those that met little or no
resistance in their lives, but rather, quite the contrary. Successful people have probably met with
more resistance than most, but rather than give up, they persevered and found out that resistance
builds strength and failures are only failures if you quit. The ironic thing about life is that more
lessons are found in struggles than are found in success. It is the lessons that yo learn from your
failures that will propel you on your way toward eventual success. So you cannot give up at the first
sign of difficulty. By setting goals, you make a commitment to yourself that no matter what
difficulties you may encounter on the way, you will not give up or give in. You learn from your
mistakes and you learn to not repeat them. You may make thousands of mistakes on your journey
toward your goal, but as long as you don't repeat any of the same mistakes, eventually you will
achieve your goal.
It's funny, but many people work hard to create a financial nest for our children in hopes that their
lives may be a little bit better than our own. Ironically, many of the lessons that we learn in our
struggles toward building a successful life for ourselves are lost on our children as we endeavor to
shield them from the same struggles that tempered us and made us strong. As a result, our
children may never learn how to be as resourceful as we are. Our minds are just like the rest of the
muscles in our body. If you want to make them stronger, you expose them to resistance.
Goal setting will force you to challenge yourself and get you out of your comfort zone. Remember,
you grow the most when you are forced to stretch.
So set some goals that will challenge you beyond your limits. And once you set your goals, don't
give up at the first signs of resistance. Persevere and learn from the struggles. In the end, the
journey will have been well worth it, regardless or where you end up.
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