How To Achieve Goals To Plan Your Future

Can you count on yourself to do what you had resolved to accomplish?

We may have goals for a career of our choice, or for that perfect relationship. We may have a goal of writing a novel or screenplay for a movie. Our goals might be focused on deciding where to live or what kind of house or car to own.

How often do we actually plan our life? How many of people just take what comes their way? They don't make a plan. They don't even know how to follow through to achieving their goals.

Some people find their lives turning out miserably and not at all what they had dreamed of as a child. How many people do you know who blame their misfortunes on the world? They don't own up to taking responsibility for how their life turns out.

I know many people who say, “That’s just the way it is.” Or, “That’s the life that was given to me.”

Do you know anyone who has stopped to think about it? Someone who made a resolution to accomplish something that was not originally part of his or her life? Do you know anyone who actually made a difference for themselves by setting a goal and following through with it?

The problem is that many people don’t know how to achieve goals. What good is goal setting if we don’t follow through? We can't just make a goal and forget about it. It will never happen.

Why bother to continue to fool ourselves, telling ourselves that we will do something we never did before or telling ourselves that we will stop doing something that we know is not good for us. Yes goals might include changing bad habits. Discontinuing something that’s detrimental to our future is just as important a goal as initiating a new venture.

Many of our less important goals tend to become forgotten. We not only fail to keep our word, but we even forget the commitment we made.

Throughout life we have accomplished so many great feats. We had planned our career and followed our dreams. We were serious about working hard to make a life with as much joy and success as we dreamed so that it became a reality.

We may have failed at some of it. We may not have succeeded at all of it. But the point is, we put our effort into it and did our best with the resources we had.

So why can't we make a resolution to do the same with all those minor goals we have thought about accomplishing? Are we simply not serious enough about it?

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You made a goal. You know what you want to achieve. Can you count on yourself to make it happen?

You know you can, because you did it with the many of the important things. Look where you are today. You accomplished so much and you may not have given yourself credit for your past achievements. So you lose the motivation to keep pushing for the little things you want.

Once you lose the motivation, you also tend to forget that you had made new goals. Maybe not so important goals. But things that can benefit you nevertheless.

So why keep forgetting all the little plans and goals that could add some enjoyment to your life when completed.

It doesn't matter what your goal is. What matters is that you know yourself and you believe in yourself, and that you know the true meaning of your goals, as well as knowing the true reason for making them.

Think of it as if you were a movie producer, and your life is the movie. Be the producer of your life. You are in control of writing the script for the screenplay of your life story.

Make it good. Plan it well. Give a lot of thought to cause and affect. That is, to consider how things turn out based on events. Then plot out the script of your life, one scene at a time.

You don’t need to make New Year’s Resolutions that you will soon forget. Real goals can be made at any time. You don't need to make wishes and hope they come true. All you need is to produce your life story, and make things happen one day at a time.

Copyright © 2011 Glenn Stok

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