How to achieve your goals in lifr

[Vinod Allgoo]

Guidelines on how to Achieve your Goals

Life is filled with timetables and schedules. All of it is, of course, aimed at achieving certain goals so that we can measure our success. Be it the schoolchildren, entrepreneurs, or CEOs, irrespective of designation and age, everyone has goals in life.

So what is your goal? Lead a team, travel to your favorite destination, achieve a milestone in your career, top an exam, study at a reputed university, pursue a hobby or just simply get a posture right on that yoga mat? Whatever be the goal, it requires some level of thought, planning, and execution. But, the question is how to achieve goals? Let’s delve deeper into how you focus on your goals and achieve them.

Steps to achieve your goals1. Learn the 3Rs of goals – Relevant, Realistic and Reasonable

Relevant: Ensure that the goal you have set for yourself is going to be useful when you achieve it.

Realistic: Setting realistic goals is possible when you make a note of your SWOT (strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat). Non-fulfilment of unrealistic goals will only demoralize you.

Reasonable: Let’s say your goal is to go to the moon in the next five years. Is there a spaceship that is planned for the general public? Or are you planning to become an astronaut? If not, then don’t set yourself up for disappointment. Aim for something feasible and achievable.

2. Set smaller sub-goals

Goals are long-term with deadlines that are months or years away, prompting you to be lax and casual now. This will make you disorganized and unprepared when you need to show results. Setting smaller targets will help make the main goal seem more achievable. It will also give you a sense of direction and purpose and strengthen your focus on your goal.

3. Cultivate common interest circles

Be in the right environment. For example, if you want to run a marathon, it will help you to join running groups. These groups can share valuable experiences and tips. More importantly, they can pull you up when you are demotivated and disheartened. If you are constantly around people who like sedentary pastimes, you will eventually lose your drive and focus.

“Self effort and perseverance are key to achieving any goal in life. Additionally, you will need energy, skill and providence (luck). Meditation can help you amplify these qualities towards your goal.

Never get perturbed by success and failures of others. This lifetime is just like an act in a play and show goes on forever.”

- Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

4. Reward yourself

Every drop is required to make the ocean. Such is the significance of every drop. Appreciate the small successes, and reward yourself for them. These will help push you to your next target. If you are too hard on yourself, you will find it difficult to pick yourself up from the small failures. Moreover, it will prolong and hasten the downward spiral.

5. Minimize the distractions

Each goal brings along some lateral goals along with it. This can dilute your attention. Prioritize and focus on your main goal without getting side-tracked. At no point in time, will you be able to find time for achieving goals? Your goal should just be important enough for you to make time for it. Resist taking on unnecessary, additional responsibilities unrelated to your final objective.

6. Dream it, but more importantly, do it.

A goal begins as a dream. So, it is important that you dream and envision. However, without a plan and some action, it will remain a dream. Remember, that any goal worth achieving will involve some change in you. Also, your best companion through all this is hard work. It will teach you how to achieve your goals.

Ultimately, the effort required for achieving goals is a function of the energy and skill. You will have to discover and draw out abilities innate in you. But, don’t forget, luck also plays a role in it.