Take Giant Steps With Smaller Encouraging Goals

Nobody likes disappointments and in life it's pretty difficult to avoid them. One thing that everyone wants to have all of the time is a pleasant experience. 

Everyone loves encouraging experiences. The excitement gotten from it usually pushes one to continue doing that which gives him or her pleasure.

Unfortunately, this is also the same thing that pushes people to do wrong things in life. For example, cheating on one’s spouse through illicit love affairs, stealing funds from one’s employers, armed robbery, serial killings, paedophilia, rape, etc.

On the road to success, fame or wealth, there is a need to take giant and rather ambitious strides that will lead us to our final destination, but there is also a need to set smaller goals in between to boost our confidence to move ahead till we get there.

Achieving smaller goals where a larger one lies ahead gives us enough encouragement to carry on. Whenever we encounter challenges or set backs, we can look back on the many smaller goals achieved and know that this one or these few setbacks are just temporary.

As you read this piece and the previous posts on this blog, you certainly must have had a burning desire on something you want to achieve in life. That is your final goal. There are smaller goals in between that you would need to get past in order to get to your final destination.

Create a quiet time and ask yourself what those smaller goals are, put them in writing and place where you can see it at least twice a day – first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

For every one of the smaller goals you achieve, tick it off on the sheet you have placed in writing. As author John Maxwell advises, celebrate your achievement of every one of the smaller goals. Do this especially with people who have always and continue to encourage you in your ambition.

You’d be amazed at the morale booster this would have on helping you to forge ahead until you get to where you want. 

Such often overlooked little things make the difference between someone who is focused on achieving his goals and someone who loses hope at the slightest obstacle.

There you have another wealth secret! Put it to practice please!

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Taking Action As An Antidote To Worry

Most of the time, hypertension is caused by excessive worry over an incident that has not yet occurred.

Excessive worry over an incident that has not yet taken place results in fear and then hypertension and at times stroke, whether partial or full.

Something that never occurs to most individuals is that worry in itself cannot achieve anything or change the situation at hand to make it better. If anything, our health is ultimately affected by the excessive pressure that builds up in our hearts and minds as a result of things we are afraid of.

Author Napoleon Hill identified six basic fears most humans encounter in their lives:

(1) fear of poverty

(2) fear of criticism

(3) fear of ill health

(4) fear of loss of love of someone

(5) fear of old age

(6) fear of death

Napoleon Hill states further that, “Fears are nothing more than states of mind. One's state of mind is subject to control and direction”


This statement is true if we consider the fact that whenever we receive good news, our minds are in a pleasant state, but whenever we receive unpleasant news, our minds seem to be in turmoil until we can fix whatever problem there was.

Looking at the list of fears above, one could say that except for (2), (5) and (6) that are bound to happen to everyone at one time or another, the rest may not happen.

But we go ahead and begin to create in our minds different scary scenarios of what has not taken place and as a result, we find it difficult doing just about anything with the situation when it has completely taken over our normal way of thinking.

Take for instance an organisation that wants to downsize its workforce and rumours have started flying around over the imminent incident.

Some people working there who may never be affected by the exercise would begin to imagine being laid off and asking how they would face neighbours, friends, etc and worst of all, how they would survive financially.

Even though the event has not yet taken place, the fear associated with it in the person’s mind could become so powerful that the person loses the zeal to work altogether – and all these for something that may never even take place!

We’ve got to take action as an antidote to the different fears we encounter in our lives every single day. For instance, the person in the example of the organisation that wants to lay off staff should shake off whatever fears about being laid off and immerse him or herself in their work.

This is because the fear is simply a state of that person’s mind and if he or she loses zeal to work as a result of such fear, it could eventually lead to the person being laid off by the organisation due to reduced productivity and not because he or she was to be laid off along with others as earlier feared.

Taking action makes you forget what you fear. When you are in a state of fear, you find it difficult doing anything because most times you are sitting or lying still with your mind immersed in thoughts of what you do not want to happen.

But if you confront the fear and take action, the fear reduces and will disappear and you become happy when you achieve something significant from your action.

For instance, if you are an employee in an organisation given a new task different from what you are used to, one could become afraid of what may happen if it fails.

And this could be discouraging if such thoughts are allowed to persist on one’s mind. When eventually you do take action on the task and succeed in the process, the fear gives way to a mindset of accomplishment!

The same thing applies when we have something definite to achieve in life as an ambition. Whenever you confront an obstacle on the road to achievement, one of the first things is for one to become afraid and want to give up. But you must confront that obstacle and take action.

Most of the time, you’d be delighted to note that you were able to overcome your fear not by worrying over it but by taking action until you got results.

Always remember that on the road to fame, wealth and achievement, its not the efforts you put in the process that counts but the results you get from your efforts.

And that is precisely what the world wants to see – results.

When you remember this always, your state of mind would always be ready for action and not paralysed by fear of what may never happen! Whenever you are confronted with fear over an incident that has not or may never take place, just take action.

Action could come through saying a prayer, sharing your fears with someone who ALWAYS gives you valuable and encouraging advice, asking yourself questions that would help you come up with action plans that lead to a solution, etc.

Whatever it is, just take action to overcome your fears and achieve the results you sincerely and wholeheartedly desire.

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Focusing on Your Goals In Life

Human memory is very short. A clear example of this is seen in the true statement made by someone who said, “Examination is a few days of high density knowledge followed by a life time of ignorance.”

If you have ever passed through any kind of formal school where you had to write tests and exams, you’d see the truth in this statement. When preparing for the test or exams, you have so much in your head that it seems as though it would remain there forever.

But after writing the test or exams, it is pretty difficult to recall all the stuff put in your head just the previous day. When your test or examination scripts come and you look at what you wrote down, you’d wonder if it was really you who wrote all those things down.

An advantage of the shortness of the human memory, though, is seen when people’s memories of past hurts are not as painful as when it first occurred – the pain is usually not the same as when the incident first happened and with time, one tends to forget the pain but not necessarily the incident.

As the world marks the fifth anniversary of the events of September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center, those who lost their loved ones may not feel the same kind of pain they felt then when it first occurred five year ago. Such is the case with the human memory.

A disadvantage of the shortness of human memory is where one could lose focus on what they want to achieve in life. As you read this piece over the internet, its possible you may have tried to do other things before settling down to this. Have you ever noticed how difficult it could be at times to stay focused on one website on the internet?

You could find yourself jumping from website to website and after almost an hour, you wonder how you spent the time and if you really achieved anything. The same could be the case with trying to keep focused on achieving our heart’s desire in life.

It is possible one has read so many self development, motivational and inspirational materials and even listened to similar audio and video tapes – but then comes a small or several challenges and one immediately forgets all the inspirational materials, the goals they want to achieve and then focus instead on the problems.

This has a paralysing effect that could kill ambition altogether if left unchecked. One could feel the goal is not achievable given the number of obstacles to surmount. There would now be a fight between keeping your mind focused on your goals and keeping your mind focused on the obstacles.

In his letter to the Romans Chapter 7 verse 15, St. Paul makes a similar reference concerning human behaviour when he says, “I do not understand what I do; for I don’t do what I would like to do, but instead I do what I hate.”

Drawing an analogy from St. Paul’s comments, what you would like to do is focus on your goals, but you find yourself focusing on what you would hate - the problems keeping you from reaching your goal.

So how does one overcome this challenge of trying to stay focused on our goals in the face of seeming obstacles? It would do you good to remember that it is thoughts we put in our minds that are responsible for the way we feel at any given time.

The first thing to do then is changing the way we think. How? There are times when you just feel that achieving your ambitious goal may be beyond your reach and you want to give up. Anthony Robbins in his book, “Awaken the Giant Within” advocates breaking the limiting thoughts on one’s mind by radical acts of excitement like jumping up and shouting whenever one feels weary over a situation.

Of course not many people would have the courage to do such things, but as long as you remember that it is you that should change first then your situation, you’d be willing to try things to get you out of a bad mood.

Focusing on the challenges would only wear you down further. But focusing on your goals would keep you in perspective on what you really want in life. Unless you’ve never been told before, there is absolutely no situation in life that cannot be remedied.

As Henry David Thoreau said, “Things do not change; we change.” Rene Descartes said, “It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.” So next time you find yourself getting worked up over a challenge in the way of your life’s ambition, do something immediately to get the thoughts out as fast as possible from your mind.

Go look in a mirror and talk to yourself. Keep telling yourself CONTINUOUSLY “God will make a way.” It is a statement of faith and it would surely calm you down. Always remember as stated in Matthew’s gospel Chapter 7 verse 7, “Ask, and you will receive; seek, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.”

"For with God, ALL things are possible" – Matthew 19:26.

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Poverty Is A Wisdom Problem. Wealth Is A Wisdom Solution (2)

Anyone in this life can achieve fame, wealth and success in anything they set their hearts on. But you need wisdom to be able to achieve.

Disciplining oneself to the process of acquiring wisdom to be able to achieve is a pre-requisite. Commitment to the process is also required because you cannot complete anything to which you are not committed.

Conviction about the end result (fame, wealth, success, etc) is equally important before you can even talk of committing yourself. If you are not convinced of what your objectives are, you will lose interest in the process soonest.

You should also have an open and willing mind to learn because the road to achieving wisdom would lead you to new things you would never have imagined of before now.

The bible (King James Version) says in the book of Proverbs 24 verse 7 says, “Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.”

In verse 14 it says, “So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.”

I believe these bible quotations speak for themselves on the value of obtaining wisdom in whatever we want to get out of life. When you find wisdom, there shall be a reward. When you do not find wisdom, life would only appear difficult and impossible.

As I said at the beginning, every problem, including poverty, has a solution. Wisdom is the principal thing to get and every other thing shall fall in place.

Proverbs 1 verse 7 says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” If you truly desire to become an achiever in life, commit yourself and strive from today to obtain wisdom.

Listen to motivational and inspirational tapes, read inspirational books and interact more with genuinely successful individuals.

You would be amazed within a short while at the amount of wisdom you would have obtained in the process. When you apply the wisdom to any of life’s situations, you will surely achieve your life’s objectives and others would still be wondering what happened to you.

Do me a favour as always: share your story with them if they are willing to learn.

I will conclude by telling you a story as told by Pastor Chris Oyakhilome of Christ Embassy Ministries. The parson’s father used to drive a Citroen automobile and later passed it to him.

At the time, there were several people using the Citroen and they used to service the vehicle at a designated Citroen workshop.

When the Citroen Company closed its local workshop, a mechanic at the workshop where the Pastor’s dad used to fix his car, however, opened his own private workshop shortly after and was now responsible for servicing and maintaining Citroen cars for his wealthy clients.

He continued to do this for several years but due to non availability of spare parts, client after client began to abandon their faulty Citroen cars at the mechanic’s workshop.

At a time, it was only the Pastor’s inherited Citroen car that was on the road because he was still a very young man and had taken time to learn a few things from the mechanic and applied it to keep his car on the road.

A time came when the Pastor had to take his Citroen car for repairs at the workshop only to be told that a lack of business had caused the mechanic to equally close shop and move to his country home due to his inability to sustain the cost of living in the city.

The lesson from this story is how a lack of wisdom can cause an individual to fall from seeming financial success to financial lack. At the time the mechanic was servicing his wealthy clientele, he had obviously not learnt any lessons from what happened to his former employers and carried on business without foresight.

While he was making money, it never occurred to him to learn repairs of other luxurious cars in a period of about 18 years when he was repairing Citroen cars and suddenly, he found himself out of business and had to relocate to live in abject poverty at the country side.

Had he had the foresight to realise the fact that one day, there would be no spare parts to repair Citroen cars, he would have made efforts to solve the problem before things went awry.

That is precisely what lack of wisdom, insight, understanding, knowledge, foresight and intelligence does to many people who have to struggle through life daily to make ends meet.

Know now as you read that every problem has a solution. Obtaining and applying wisdom is the solution to any situation.

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