/? 280510" What You Get By Achieving Your Goals

What's the difference between someone who achieves their goals and someone who just dreams about them? The starting point is always their level of desire, and how bad they want it. Try to remember a time when you heard how someone defied all the odds and achieved something that seemed impossible. You might have been stunned by their sheer determination to achieve their goal. What gave them their determination? They wanted it bad enough. Their desire led to a choice which set their desire into motion. They learned to make only those choices that supported their goals. And if they can do it, you can too. Achieving your goals doesn't have anything to do with where you've been; you can always get to where you want to be - if you want it bad enough.

Try this exercise. Think about something you *really* want. Maybe you want a better job, more money, or to be more fit. Whatever it is, make sure it's something you really want. Close your eyes for a moment and imagine how you would feel already having achieved it. Feels great, doesn't it? You probably had feelings of excitement and got butterflies in your stomach - that's good! /? 280510" What You Get By Achieving Your Goals

Now compare how you felt during that exercise with how you feel about your current reality. Do you feel differently about them? Chances are you do. You shouldn't necessarily have "bad" feelings about your current reality, but my point is to distinguish the discrepancy in the "great" feeling between what you really want and what you currently have. You have to want your dream life bad enough to make a choice. That choice is to live a life that makes you feel great.

Most people stay in their current reality because they don't want to deal with the sacrifice and frustration of change. For them is seems it's just not worth it. I don't see it that way. Choosing to live your dream life comes down to a single choice; sacrifice and frustration don't even enter the picture. From the moment you decide you want your dream life more than you want your current reality, it merely becomes a choice. Plain and simple. /? 280510" What You Get By Achieving Your Goals