If you aim at nothing you are sure to hit the target (Zig Ziglar)

It seems that the men and women who succeed have established GOALS. The others that don’t make, who are just as intelligent and talented, neglect this process. If you don’t have a precise goal, how will you know when you get there? So here are the 8 dynamic steps to reach your goal THIS year.

Knowing WHERE you want to go demands that you do the effort of thinking it through.

Let’s say that you want to go to a city that is 200 miles away. It might be useful that to have a map or GPS just to know what direction to take just to get out of your neighborhood or town.

As with any destination, you only see your goal in the last mile or two.

If you leave in the middle of a foggy night, you may not see more that 25 to 50 yards in front of you. But when those 50 yards are behind you the next fifty will be revealed to you. But that’s OK. You know where you want to go!

He, who wants to see the whole trip in advance, has got a problem. It just doesn\’t work that way.

Some people who want to build their own money making blog never ever get started! They want to understand everything from A to Z before daring to get out of their ‘comfort zone’. If they knew everything in advance, they would never get married nor have kids. What you do is, you get going, and you solve the problems as you go. Isn’t that right?

Hey, it’s fun travelling! The pleasure is in the trip, right?

People that succeed say it’s ‘both/and’ not ‘either/ or’

We often want contradictory things:

*I want the pleasure of being creative and independent but I don’t want to take any risks.

* I want to travel around the world but I need to finish studying first.

Well you are right. It’s not an “either/or” proposition but a “both/and”. You can accomplish first one thing then the other. You need to decide what the priority is for now.

But you have to choose!

Each major decision narrows down your options. For example, if you decide to go and live in France for a while (like I did), you are likely to learn French and not Chinese (although who knows, if you end up in Chinatown…). And you may meet the woman or man of your life over there!

But nothing is definite. You can pause your studying for a while or continue over there. You may think that this trip will have a negative impact on your career, because your future employer may think it was a lost year. You haven’t lost anything! The cultural and linguistic experience is worth gold in ‘world-class’ companies.

But the main thing is, as Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island, said, “The greatest treasure a man has in life is to have a goal”

So here are 8 dynamic steps to reach your goal THIS year.

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