by Rosario Buenaflor

Created on: October 22, 2010   Last Updated: October 23, 2010

Goals are intended to be achieved and completed.  We choose goals which we feel confident in achieving and reaching.  The spark of energy that drives us to have a certain goal is a special thing.  It comes from a place that defines who we are: our motives, our passions, our values.  Likewise, the process of achieving them reveals our personalities, our habits, our characters.  There are goals we choose simply because we love the process of making it happen; while there are goals we like because we want to prove something in relation to that goal, or have emotional issues with it.  In order to be successful in achieving a goal, whether short term or long term, we have to be able to commit to every step associated with it.  It must be done with the help of a concrete plan or schedule.

Define your goal then do it with passion and enthusiasm.  Write out a plan, outlining the merit of every stage.  

Prioritize.  Know what activities must be done first, this can be the heading or the major stages of your plan where minor or more detailed things can go under.  Define each step that is directly going to affect other smaller steps.  

Write it down, and/or visualize an uplifting scene within the process of your goal. This will raise your level of confidence by seeing yourself fulfill your vision.  It will make you more aware of trials and challenges that must be worked through just by visualizing and imagining yourself in that actual situation.  

Respect the natural flow of things by being patient.  Every step has its own importance to the whole outcome of the goal.  Often there are bridges to be crossed, challenges to be faced which you have to be prepared for.  Do it in such a way that nothing is negatively affected due to being too compromised.  Steps have relationships that once you start wrong, the rest will also be wrong.  Haste makes waste.  To be ethical you need to be patient.

Doing it means learning it.  So be an expert and learn.  Every goal is in the process of becoming realized.  Certain tasks need expertise and some just need time to fit into the time structure of the goal. Just think of the benefit of being successful at completing your goal, if you are able to do it well, you can duplicate the process and apply it to your other goals.  By doing it, you becoming better and better at it.

Enthusiasm is contagious.  It's not what it

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