How do you plan your goals?
First, it’s researching how far away you actually are from your goal and accepting it. Next research what is the first step you have to take to get yourself on the path toward your goal and figure out how far away that first step is . Then, one tiny step at a time start toward the first step. Of course, it takes a great deal of patience and willpower once you realistically see just how far away you are from your goal and realize if it’s even attainable. Then you need to have an honest look inside yourself and figure out just how much you really want or need the particular goal . Are you even capable of doing the work required? Most people wouldn’t pass this step. This is the reason why there are so many unsuccessful people in the world. This is also the reason why there are so many unhealthy people in the world. Can you be practical enough, persistent enough? Do you have the willpower required? Are you capable of not believing your critics, including yourself? Do you have the physical, emotional, and intellectual energy required? Are you strong enough? If you answered yes to the above, congratulations, you might just achieve your goal with a little luck . Because you will need luck too. Luck with meeting the right people along the way to your goal. Luck with your health holding up during the journey. And most importantly, of all patience to deal with just how difficult the goal you’ve chosen for yourself really is. Will it require education and the money needed to get the knowledge required? With each question comes more research, and with each step forward comes 5 steps back.
Can you handle the frustration of knowing that everything that looks easy for others will be extremely difficult, bordering on impossible for you at first?
I know where of I speak. I’ve had to learn to walk and toilet again as a 50 year old stroke patient. If you think you’re strong enough to handle something like that, ask yourself, are you strong enough to handle it when your doctor tells you that your partial paralysis is permanent? Will you just accept it, or will you continue to move forward because it’s the only thing you can do?
I’ve been incrementally moving forward for 9 years, and I don’t care if it takes me however long I have left, there’s no point in stopping. But I admit to resting for as much as I need to. You have to build your energy, not deplete it.
If your goal is anything lesser than the goal that I’m trying to achieve, then bookmark this blog post and come back to it from time to time for an ass kicking! Because a permanently paralyzed 59 year old woman is very slowly achieving her goal of walking again. What’s your problem?