You do not achieve anything by accident. It takes years of patience, consistency, and hard work to fulfil a goal. There is no miracle unless you create one. However, the chaos in our minds that haunts us consistently makes it harder for us to fulfil our ambitions. Each one of us wonders how we can reach our goals.
Thus, thinking within the same direction, we prepared for you a few keynotes that we thought may help you to fulfil your dreams -
1. What Is Your Goal and Why?
The primary requisite to become goal-oriented is to find out what sets your heart on fire. The perfect blend is finding the balance between purpose and pleasure. You cannot achieve anything unless you know exactly what is it and why is it that you wish to achieve something. You must introspect and speculate on the causes of why you have a certain goal.
Remember, your work doesn't stop right after identifying your goal unless you have explored the reasons for setting that goal in the first place. You need to realize what you are looking for in the goal you have set for yourselves. A doctor may join a private hospital in a hustling-bustling city to earn money and live in the lap of luxury. However, another person may find himself/herself out of place in the same position and may wish to shift to a village and run a small village hospital to help the poor. Hence, you must explore your goal to the fullest. Once you have a reason to do a particular task, you would automatically do it.
2. Set a Time-Table for Your Goals
It may be a small point but is an inescapable one. Making yourself a time-table and adhering to it is vital to becoming a goal-oriented person. It not only makes you effective and efficient but also enables you to keep a check on yourself.
3. Break the Stagnancy
Just because one job provides you money and comfort, you should not believe it to have quenched your thirst for gaining more. You must always be ready to step out of your comfort zone. A job may make you financially stable but fail to satisfy you. Hence, as tiring it may be, you must not stop searching. Every step you take must be a step closer to your goal.
4. Develop the Value of Courage
Courage is a value that must be embedded in a person who wishes to become a goal-oriented person. Sometimes, we tend to choose the comforts of family, pleasure, luxury, and love over our goals and purpose of life. We fail to leave behind the lanes of pleasure and choose to remain stuck there.
It is truly not easy to leave all ties and move forward in life to search for what you want and fulfil your purpose. Your body and heart may press upon you to go back to the accustomed comforts of life but you must have the courage to keep going on. Remember, in the struggles of life, it is your courage that becomes the fuel you need to keep your body running.
The aforementioned four keynotes are meant to guide you with an approach to become a more goal-oriented person. We are all different, and so are our goals. Our stories are different, and hence, our pathways are different as well. Hence, prescribing a certain path may be difficult because your life is your journey to success. And to achieve something big, you must be willing to take a conscious effort and make compromises along the way.
Written by - Anwesha Basu
Edited by - Vasudha Sabharwal
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