How to Achieve Your Goals: The Essential Steps

We all have dreams and aspirations. But what separates those who achieve their goals from those who don't, is a clear understanding and actionable plan.

There are several steps involved in achieving your goals.

Know Your Goal and Understand It From Every Angle

The first step to achieving your goal is to know it inside and out. You have to understand what it is you're trying to achieve and why it's important to you. What are the benefits of achieving your goal? What will it do for you and your life? You really need to be able to see it, touch it, taste it, and smell it! Once you have a clear understanding of your goal, you can start working on the next step. You must write this goal down and re-read it every morning.

Change Your Thoughts and Align Them With Your Goals

In order to achieve your goals, you have to change the way you think about them. You have to believe that they're possible and that you can make them happen. Thoughts are things, and they have a very real impact on our lives. If you're constantly thinking about how you're going to fail, guess what? You're probably going to fail. The more positive energy and effort you put into visualizing your goal, the more likely you are to achieve it. Start thinking about your goals in a positive light, and watch as opportunities start aligning themselves in your favour. Make sure you Visualise your goal every morning.

Taking action towards your goal

Just because you believe that you can achieve your goal doesn't mean that it's going to happen without some effort on your part. You need to take concrete steps toward making your goal a reality. This might mean doing some research, signing up for a class, or hiring a coach. But whatever it is, you need to take action if you want to achieve your goal. Don't procrastinate or make excuses, just get started!

Monitor Your Progress and Make Adjustments

As you take steps towards your goal, it's important to monitor your progress. This will help you to see what's working and what's not, and it will allow you to make any necessary adjustments along the way. If you find that you're not making the progress you'd like, don't be discouraged. Just take a look at what you're doing and see where you can make some changes. Remember, even small steps will get you closer to your goal. Try to look at any failures as learning experiences and use them to help you move closer to your goal. Think about a baby learning to walk! They fall down a lot at first, but eventually, they get it. And so will you! Have affirmations written and when times are tough, read them over and over again!

Celebrate Your Successes!

I learned recently that you have to have wins every week and celebrate them. Throw in a few easy goals so you can celebrate often in the beginning. This will help to keep you motivated and focused on your goal. Achieving your goals is a process, so enjoy it!

Tune Out the Negative Noise

In order to achieve your goals, you have to be laser-focused and stay away from anything that might derail you. This means tuning out any negative thoughts or people in your life who might try to bring you down. A lot of people don't like change and as such may not agree with your goals. They might try to talk you out of it or tell you that you're not going to be able to do it. But you need to stay strong and believe in yourself. Only you can make your dreams come true, so don't let anyone else stand in your way. Keep visualising and reading your goals and affirmations.

Be persistent

Achieving any sort of significant goal takes time, energy, and dedication. There will be times when you feel like giving up, but if you want to succeed then you need to push through those times and keep going until you reach it. That moment when you just want to give up because it seems too hard, DON'T. Push through. Look back at the reasons why you want to achieve that goal and realign yourself with them.

Conclusion

Achieving goals is not easy, but it's definitely possible if you're willing to put in the work. Start by really knowing your goal inside and out. Then change your thoughts so that they align with the success of achieving your goal. Next, take action steps towards making it happen followed by learning from any failures along the way. Finally, remain persistent even when times get tough.

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Find Out How Successful People Think So You May Be Successful Too

Do you think successful people are just plain lucky?

Successful people did not become successful because they were lucky.

They did not achieve success by accident. Being at the right place at the right time, meeting relevant people, reading the appropriate book, did not come about accidentally or by luck.

Luck is brought about by Labour Under Correct Knowledge.

Successful people prepared themselves. Instead of giving up on anything they started and wanted to achieve they got stronger by learning more.

Success is a methodical, orderly and deliberate process of deciding what you want to do with your life, what are the steps that you need to undertake to get you there, and lastly what you will do once you get there.

One of the most important aspects, if not the most important aspect to success, is the ability to visualise your successful outcome and stay focused on it until you achieve it.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, knowledge is limited." - Albert Einstein

Successful people understood the potential power behind knowledge, yet they also understood that, for them to close the gap between where they are and where they wanted to be, they would have to piece together the enigma that is most often referred to as "life".

They had to build a picture, a vision, of success in their mind, and then go about taking action on creating that envisioned life.

In much the same way, you have to be serious about your present and future, you need to have the knowledge that is required so you, too, may close the gap: you need to be and remain determined to devote yourself to taking massive action to build your business of succeeding in life.

You, too, will need to see the end, your dream and destiny that you desire in your mind's eye. It is up to you to take the necessary and relevant action to make it all happen. It's just like going to the doctor with a particular health problem.

The doctor may prescribe a medication for you to take four times a day, yet he cannot be there with you to ensure that you are taking the medication.

It comes back to deciding to be responsible for your life.

Have you noticed how it all stems from that one attitude? Being responsible for your own life.

Your success, your being responsible 100% for you to live your dream life starts here.

When you accept 100% responsibility for yourself and your current life situation, you will have the power to move towards those things you truly desire in life: which is success in all areas of your life.

This life-changing article is about possibilities and opportunities, knowledge and tools. It will help expose your unique course in life.

It will inspire, support and motivate you to excel, to do what successful people do, to have all that successful people have, and to become a shining example of a successful person.

Here, you're not being told what you couldn't do, instead you are being told to shoot for the stars. And above all, you are being shown how to shoot for those stars.

"A person is what he thinks about all day long." - Emerson

Interesting thought, wouldn't you think? So much so, it's worth repeating: "A person is what he thinks about all day long."

Success and happiness cannot happen if you possess the same old thoughts and beliefs.

If you do not change your mind, if you do not get rid of the unsupportive thoughts and beliefs, you will inevitably remain stuck in your old ways. Not much, if anything, will change.

Let's give you a quick overview on how change comes about:

Your BEHAVIOUR, how you act (or perhaps do not act), controls your success or failure. Your ability to attain high levels of success is dependent upon your actions and behaviours. Your results are the outcome of your behaviour. Now let's consider where your behaviours come from and what controls them?

Your FEELINGS command your behaviour. Every action that you take is first filtered through your feelings that reside in your subconscious mind. How you feel about something determines what you do and how well you do it. So where do your feelings come from?

Your ATTITUDES create and influence your feelings. Your attitude is your perspective from which you view life. Whatever attitude you have about anything will affect how you feel, which, in turn, affects how you act. Where do your attitudes come from?

Your BELIEFS create, control and influence your attitudes. What you believe about anything will determine your attitude about it, which will create your feelings, and then which will direct your behaviour and action. Belief patterns are so powerful that two people who are in the same situation could perceive things completely differently. It only requires us to believe what we see and how we see it. We all have thousands of beliefs - big and small. And where do your beliefs come from?

Your THOUGHTS create, control and influence your beliefs. Your thoughts are real and are immensely powerful. Everything you accept from the outside world and everything you feed yourself from within is a product of your thoughts. Everything starts as a thought.

So, it goes without saying you need to learn to control your thoughts. And when you do, you will automatically control your beliefs, your attitudes, your feelings and, consequently, your behaviour and actions.

The big secret to success:

Learn to control your thoughts and you will influence your behaviours and actions. It's all a mind-set. That's what we've been saying all along.

Success is predictable and is not achieved by accident.

Have the mind-set of the successful people and you will achieve success. Believe and it is yours!

"There is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind." - Joel Osteen

Science of success experts have concluded that the brain is a goal-setting organism.

That is fantastic news for us: for whatever goal we give to our subconscious mind, it will work for us day and night, 24/7, to achieve it for us; to make it a reality.

The principal breakthrough that scientists made was that we do not need to waste our precious time and effort trying to change old thoughts and behaviours: we just simply create new ones.

And the other discovery they made was that we can continue to create new thoughts, new memories, new behaviours, new skills, and learn new things for as long as we are alive on this earth.

Now, with the new discoveries in recent years, it has been scientifically proven that our capacity to achieve and succeed literally has no limits.

Our brain has the capacity to continually learn during our entire lifetime.

Our brain can form new thoughts, can have new memories, and can learn new things by the millions, no matter what your age is. By the millions.

That's how many new things we can learn, that's how many new skills we can learn, that's how many new thoughts we can have, that's how many new behaviours we can adopt.

This is encouraging because there is no limit on your capacity to achieve new things.

No limits whatsoever for the human brain to learn, memorise, develop, achieve and perform at higher levels than ever imagined. It makes no difference what your age is: you are capable of learning anything new that you want to learn.

That adds to what we spoke of earlier: no more excuses.

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today." - Malcolm X

Your brain has the capacity to achieve way beyond what was ever thought possible. So now is the time to break out of your limited thinking and start dreaming big and imagining unlimited possibilities.

Becoming successful is not impossible.

It is a choice you make through a decision. Every day, step-by-step, you may climb the mountain of success if you've decided to do so, if you're committed to accomplish what the others think impossible.

Design your future now.

Prepare to receive what you desire.

Thanks to the phenomenal advances made in cognitive science and the development of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming), personal change, personal transformation, has come a very long way.

In fact, personal growth is no longer a mystery.

NLP has brought to light that change, transformation and growth can be fast, reliable, and even fun. It has shown us that we do not need to spend thousands of hours slaving away to increase our creative-thinking abilities.

By practicing a few simple exercises and applications, you can start your creative juices flowing, and you may even amaze yourself at the quality and quantity of good ideas that you can come up with to expedite your success.

It can allow you to achieve something you seek within days and months as opposed to years and decades. That's the power of the progress science has made on how the brain works, and also how you can have your mind to be your best ally in achieving anything you want.

Learn to live as you like by no longer living as you dislike.

Are you ready to get on the road to success and fulfilment?

Bear in mind, much like everything else in life, success requires practice and massive, consistent action.

"Success doesn't mean the absence of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. It means winning the war, not every battle." - Edwin C Bliss

Hani Al-Qasem has been a self-improvement educator for more than 18 years.

You can download your copy of "Wealth Attraction: How To Reprogram Your Mind For More Money" FREE eBook where you can begin the automatic reprogramming of your brain for wealth, success, and abundance, in just six easy steps.

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The Power of Choice: Success Starts Now

For you to start living the life you desire, get into the habit of planning your day the night before - yet always allow room for the unexpected.

Plan tomorrow tonight. That's the first step of the power of choice.

Daily planning and organising your days are critical in developing your successful life.

Some results may seem slow to surface at first, perhaps they may even be unrecognisable to you, but rest assured as you continue to take action the success you have a burning desire for will be yours.

On your great expedition to success, you will come across some things that you will enjoy, some you will see as fun, interesting or entertaining. That's part of the learning process to success.

However, there will be some things that you won't enjoy or even want to do; your inner voice - the voice who is scared of change and progress - will try to stop you. You will have to be stronger than that: thank your inner voice and strive on.

Jim Rohn, a highly respected motivational speaker, once said, "You can't hire someone else to do your push-ups for you." You are going to have to do it.

It's totally up to you now! Just do it, commit to your present and future. You owe it to yourself to do, be, have and become all that you want.

"The obstacles you face are mental barriers that can be broken by adopting a more positive approach." Clarence Blasier

What is the power of choice?

How can you live the life that may exceed your expectations? Is it by choice? Can you choose to live the life you want and live it?

Absolutely!

How do you want your world to be?

Picture it. Imagine it. Dream it. Napoleon Hill's famous quote reads: What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

If you can conceive your dream, and if you believe in your dream and you believe in your ability to achieve that dream, it's as good as done.

You can have it all if you really want to.

The question is: Do you want it?

How much do you want it?

Are you ready to do whatever it takes to have it?

It's your choice and only yours.

The power of choice - the choices you make will determine the life you live.

Every action has a result. Every choice has its consequences.

Look around you; everything you see, everything in your life at the moment is the result of the choices you have made in the past, and the choices you are currently making.

You always have a choice, whether you want it or not.

In the end it's up to you.

You are responsible for you. You are totally responsible for everything you create in your life, and that responsibility is reflected in the choices that you make.

Can you see what the power of choice can make on your life?

Life can be a wonderful opportunity, full of joy, happiness, wealth, and fulfilment, full of success in every area of your life; from your business or career, to your relationships, to your health, to your wealth - only if you choose it to be.

Again, we come full circle; back to the choices you make.

You always have a choice.

You can choose to stay tucked safely within your comfort zone and have your life remain the same, as it is now, or you can choose to venture out and take part in life, your life, and make it better.

Your choice.

You can choose the power of choice as the easy way out and remain where you are, or you can choose to step up and enjoy what life has to offer.

You're not reading this article because you are happy with the way your life is going, you are reading it because you want a better life, yet you don't know how to get it.

"To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there." - Kofi Annan

Your success starts now.

You have made the choice that enough is enough.

It's time to move on and put forth some real, effective effort to live your life by choice, by design, the exact way you want to. You can now live your successful life as you want it to be.

Take action now so you can live your dream life

And since we are talking about the power of choice, choose not to allow your past to dictate your future; what is gone is gone.

Acknowledge it, learn from it and leave it behind. Move on. Do not dwell on it.

If you spill a drink at a bar, you wipe the spillage or have it wiped, learn not to elbow your drink and move on. Lesson learned. Leave the past behind.

Suppose you sit down now and write a simple plan for your life; for the next three months. Once done, have a look at the plan and begin to see the opportunities as they unfold around you.

You might see people or resources that can start you on the track to success.

You will begin to see people who can support you in your endeavours, you will be at the right place and at the right time, you can unexpectedly get that phone call that will lift your business up several steps.

"If we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently." - Anthony Robbins

Your success has already started. No more excuses!

Practically all your daily actions are the choices that you make. If you choose to be a public speaker, the choices that you make will be geared towards becoming a public speaker.

You choose to attend Toastmaster classes, you choose to purchase products on the subject. You choose to affirm and visualise yourself as a public speaker.

Whether you choose to act or not act to realise your intention, your goal, is a matter of choice, a decision that you make.

An intention that is followed up with committed massive action can have the tremendous power to transform you and your life into something truly spectacular.

There are millions of people alive today who are living their dream lives. They decided to advance their life by setting intentions and utilising the power of choice by choosing to take consistent action to manifest them, one by one.

You, too, can be one of them, no matter how old or young you are.

Success knows no race, creed or sex. It only knows inspired action, commitment, passion, and persistence. You have the ability to create the life that you want and also enrich the world in the process.

Today is your day.

Today you are going to muster your courage to do what you've been aching to do.

From today you will make that unrelenting choice, the unquenchable thirst for setting intentions, the "I will never back down" decision to go forward in your life, to do whatever it takes to claim that success that is rightly yours.

There's no backing down. Today is your day to win!

Success is an expression of your mind. It is a representation of your inner thoughts and beliefs. If you want to change your life, you must change your thinking and your beliefs.

The quality of your life reflects the quality of your thoughts.

"To change who you are, change who you think you are." - Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everything starts with an intention - a thought. It all starts in your mind. It all begins by knowing, accepting and understanding that there is another way. The direction that you are heading on now can be changed.

Success is a process that starts with your mind, setting a solid intention, and following it through with consistent massive action, determination and perseverance.

Successful people think about their goals most of the time. As a result, they are continually moving toward their goals and their goals are moving towards them.

No one is better than you and no one is smarter than you.

Everyone who is doing well was once doing poorly. Your life only gets better when you intend it to get better. And since there is no limit to how much better you can become, there is no limit to how much improvement you can make in your life.

Make the power of choice an integral part of your everyday life.

Your choice, your decision to become successful is the turning point in your life.

If you consistently and persistently do the things that other successful people do, there is nothing in the world that can stop you from becoming a big success yourself.

The power of choice may be a massive architect that will allow you to design your destiny, where you will be the master of your fate.

Remember, it is not enough to know about things. You need to practice them - you need to take consistent action.

Do not live life passively, as a spectator.

There is little value for you in doing this.

Be open to experimentation.

Be open to live life through the power of choice. Make the choices that will bring about the success that you desire.

Is your success worth having? Choose it. Name it. Claim it. And it can be yours. It is yours.

"Beyond plants are animals, Beyond animals is man, Beyond man is the universe. The Big Light, Let the Big Light in!" - Jean Toomer

Hani A Al-Qasem is a personal development educator who specialises in the life and success mindset.

Having devoted over 18 years to the study of human potential and personal development, he is committed to inspire, support and motivate people to create a better and more optimistic world for us all to live in.

You can download your copy of Wealth Attraction: How To Reprogram Your Mind For More Money FREE eBook where you can begin the automatic reprogramming of your brain for wealth, success, and abundance, in just six easy steps.

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How Affirmations Can Help You Achieve Your Goal

We all have goals that we want to achieve. Whether it's getting in shape, starting a business, or finding our dream job, we often need a little extra motivation to help us stay on track. This is where affirmations come in. Affirmations are positive statements that can help you to change your mindset and achieve your goals.

What Are Affirmations?

An affirmation is simply a positive statement that you repeat to yourself daily. The goal of an affirmation is to help you change your mindset so that you can believe in yourself and your ability to achieve your goals. When you repeat an affirmation enough times, it will eventually become part of your subconscious thought process and help to guide your actions.

How Do Affirmations Work?

Affirmations work by helping you to focus on the positive. When you are constantly thinking about what you want to achieve, you are more likely to take the necessary steps to make it happen. Additionally, affirmations can help to eliminate negative thoughts and self-doubt. If you keep telling yourself that you can do it, eventually you will believe it!

Tips for Using Affirmations

When using affirmations, there are a few things to keep in mind in order to get the most out of them. First, make sure that your affirmations are realistic. Telling yourself that you will lose 100 pounds in the next month is probably not going to happen (and is not healthy!). Instead, focus on something like, "I am making healthy choices and I am getting closer to my goal weight every day."

It is also important to make sure that your affirmations are present tense. For example, don't say "I will be successful." Say "I am successful." This small change can make a big difference in how powerful your affirmations are

Finally, don't just recite your affirmations; really believe them! The more conviction you have when saying them, the more likely you are to achieve your goals. So put some feeling behind those positive statements and watch as they start to change your life!

Conclusion

Affirmations are positive statements that can help you change your mindset and achieve your goals. When used correctly, they can be a powerful tool in helping you reach any goal that you set for yourself. So if you're looking for a little extra motivation, give affirmations a try!

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