December 21, 2005
What Are You Prepared to Do?
There is a question you need to ask yourself each day as you review your goals. This question is central to your ability to make your ambitions become reality. That question is, “What are you prepared to do?” Essentially, what are you prepared to sacrifice to make your goals become reality? The sacrifice may be temporary or it may be permanent. It may be long-term or it may be short-term. It may involve finance or it may involve quality of life. You should ask yourself this question repeatedly. Ask it during your goal development and during your implementation planning. Ask it each day as you review your goals and evaluate your progress.
You have made it through every challenge you’ve ever faced. And you have what it takes to get through many, many more. It can be frightening to stretch yourself and test your strength. It can also be energizing and invigorating. Go after your goals. Be aggressive and never quit. Don’t let difficult situations keep you from moving forward, ever closer to your goals.
Overcoming a difficult challenge can bring you a level of satisfaction that you cannot reach in any other way. Along with that satisfaction comes a solid confidence of knowing for certain that you’ve done it before and you can do it again.
When you seek challenge, you end up gaining achievement. By welcoming each challenge, you’re expressing and expanding your own confidence in a way that is truly genuine and enduring.
There was a time when you were challenged by many of the things you can now do without a second thought. Think of how far you’ve come as a result of your willingness to take on those challenges. And think of how very far you still can go when you welcome each challenge as the great opportunity it can be. Without challenges in your life, goals cannot be achieved. If your goal is to climb the highest mountain and you happen to be afraid of heights, then your goal becomes to overcome that fear. Are you getting the idea? Goals and challenges are intertwined. You can’t have one without the other.
Highly successful people ask this question constantly. If they have set their goals correctly, and if they are focused, the answer is always the same: “Anything.” So, at this point in your journey, what are you prepared to do?
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I appreciated your message this morning. It was the first blog post I read today and it was quite timely.
A little bit like the idea of when the reader is ready the blog post will appear. Thanks
Comment by David Zinger — December 21, 2005 @ 08:23