Reach Your Goals

In order to get the results you want (in every area of your life), you must desire to, plan to, and make the necessary effort to get it. You have to plan every step upward to your own high mountaintop, and it is worth mentioning that a good plan is like a road map: it shows the final destination and usually the best way to get there. Here are 25 key reasons why you should plan and prepare diligently before you begin taking steps toward your goals (in every area of your life): 1.     That's what the scripture says: "Write the vision; make it plain upon tablets so he may run who reads it…" — Habakkuk 2:2 (RSV) 2.    Courage and confidence to do what you've planned (in every area of your life) comes through practice. 3.     It helps you to prepare yourself psychologically in terms of resolve and discipline. And knowing the price to pay (for example, learning new skills) helps you to accomplish this. 4.   The price for achieving p...

Aristotle once said that fear is pain arising from anticipation. Fear breeds lack of experience, lack of experience breeds ignorance and ignorance breeds more fear. It is a vicious circle summed up so well in the acronym: False Evidence Appearing Real. The problem is that we seldom do the thing we fear that we never discover if our anticipation was accurate. Responsibility and courage go hand in hand. To take charge of your life involves accepting self-responsibility. This means accepting that everything that you are or ever will be is completely up to you and you alone.  However, it is not until something drastic happens that we are forced out if our comfort zones or safe harbors and made to look at our lives in a different way. Strangely enough the greater the crisis, the greater seems to be the opportunity. Everyone must cut his or her teeth on some form of experience. It is not the crisis or adversity that is the problem; it is the way you react to it that is the problem. Wha...