Getting Ready for this Set

On your marks, get set for success... (and the whistle goes).   Is your engine on? (Motivation). Do you have the fuel to last the journey? (Passion). Do you know where you will arrive? (Destiny/Direction). Do you know why you are running after all (Purpose)? You will achieve more if you know what motivates you, what you are passionate about, where you are destined and the reason why you occupy space.

In one of the previous years I took some time to think of my life, focusing on the gap ever since I finished school, it was some sort of a reflection, and one question popped into my mind, ‘what have I achieved thus far?’ Looking at those past years I actually struggled to count or point at things that I can be proud of and say ‘I have achieved this and that,’ I am not sure how many of you do take time to reflect and look at their lives and ask themselves the very same question like I did. Me struggling to count my achievements during my reflection never meant that I was sitting at home or relaxing somewhere, I have been busy, moving up and down, doing different projects. 

 I noticed that most of the time we just live our lives without setting targets or goals that we want to achieve at the end of each year, so that makes a year come and go without any growth or achievement that has contributed straight into our lives. Sometimes it is not that we don’t plan at all, but we set goals that will not benefit us personally but someone else, which is totally a good thing. For example, one may set a goal of establishing a community based charity organization, and be able to achieve that goal. That person would have done it for the year, because he was able to achieve what he has set for him/herself, but what has that person benefited personally or what has he gained on his personal capacity. We too often fail to balance our personal lives with other commitments that are meant for our attention, yet in real sense these two needs to be properly balanced. Talking about that another question may pop up again, What would be the way out now?

It is never too late for planning about what you want, this is to say there is time for finding out what you are passionate about, focusing on your destiny, finding your purpose and setting what motivates you to keep going.

What have been planned mustn’t end in imaginations or in paper but should also be started, what have been started should be finished. This requires one to go beyond the goal setting to goal getting. Action gives motion to one’s ideas. It is sometimes easy to start something but fail to finish. Many projects have been started and abandoned midway, similarly to marriages have lasted until the honeymoon was over and real work began. People usually shy away from things that require perseverance. It is easy to set goals that are easy by design but difficult to achieve. Goals should be something simple and achievable. In setting goals, look at a completed building and examine what it takes to make it. Have a vision for the ultimate and desired results. Work backwards and say ‘how do I get there’. Most people do not struggle in the setting of goals; it is the requirement to get the goals to become a reality. Ever since I did that first step of reflection I have now made it my yearly formula, which has helped me in achieving a lot of things and also in having clear and smooth years

I pray that you find courage in setting your goals that will transform you and the people living around you. Let this piece be the beginning of new things not a new beginning of old habits.

Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul, the blue-print of your ultimate achievements.