Want to win? "Set Goals"

You see your friends / colleagues/acquaintances, succeed in life and succeed big

But do you feel stuck, may be you don’t have a clear goal, that’s why.

Let me explain:

Situation 1

Imagine you are running a race of 500m, in order to win you will set your eyes on the ending flag and start giving your full energy towards it. You know how to prepare, what to prepare for, there is less ambiguity in the end goal and hence more focus as well.

Situation 2:

Imagine you are running a race, except you don’t know how long it is. One day you think it’s 200m and prepare for it, 10 days later you got a expert advice and decided to run for 5km race, 10 days later you decided to run in relay.

Now you don’t know if you have to prepare for the sprint or long race. Because you haven’t set your goal clearly. You keep shifting the goal post.

It’s difficult to focus on the game. You are constantly worrying about the goal hence hardly focus on moving towards the goal.

Am not advising against getting suggestions or advise. It’s important to gather various perspectives. My point is, gather all the inputs and take time to decide. But do not rush to change at every opportunity.

How do you know when to change and when not to change?

By setting GOAL

What’s your long term goal, mid term goal and short term goal. Write it down, take time to think about it. Sleep through it. If possible write your reasons behind those goals as well.

This will be your guide in taking decisions.

When you see a new opportunity, you can figure out if this opportunity is helping one of your goal or moving you away from your goal.

Let’s say you have an opportunity and don’t know where to put it. Next step should clear that out for you.

Your TIME IS LIMITED and all the opportunities are competing for that time.

so when an opportunity is not adding value to your goal, that means it is taking you away from your goal. Because, now you don’t have to focus on the goal that movies you close to the goal.

Let me reiterate. What doesn’t move you closer to the goal is moving you farther away from your goal. Let that sink in

So, set your goals and also let me share with you the lines that i learned in school and stuck with me since then,

SUCCESS MEANS CONCENTRATION, CONCENTRATION MEANS CONTRACTION OF AREA OF ATTENTION