You seek a better life.

You are ambitious.

You are competitive.

You desire to get ahead at work.

You write down your goals and dreams.

You are motivated and ready to get to work.

Now what?

Look at your goals and make them personal.  Trash your weak goals and instead make them matter.

Our minds are powerful.  They can be our ally or our enemy if we do not pay close attention.   Our minds will allow us to fight through seemingly impossible situations and then trick us into easily giving up during a moment of weakness.  When do most people decide to put forth the effort, intensity and follow through necessary to accomplish their goals?  Sadly, the answer for most is when it is personally convenient.  Nothing worthwhile is convenient.

After you trash your weak goals, do these 3 things:

1. Make your goals very detailed, specific and personal.  You have to “feel” your goals in your soul.  No one will put forth the necessary effort and energy for vague, nondescript goals.
2. List the positive and negative consequences of not achieving your goals.  I make the consequences drastic.   I have noticed that if there is little to gain or lose, then I tend not to follow through.
3. Get yourself fired up:  Failure is not an option.  I do not take the easy way out and quit.  This matters.  My future depends on this task.

Remember:  Play now and pay later or pay now and play later. Either way, you will pay.

Leave a comment and tell me how you get fired up?