7 secrets to achieving your goals

Every time we read different motivational texts, we find the same advice: "To achieve something, you just have to take it and do it." This is partly true: the one who does nothing will definitely not achieve anything. But this is only half of the truth, and the second half is that your actions should be extremely focused. How to achieve this, I will tell you in this article.

You have probably met very active people more than once in your life, who nevertheless could not achieve anything in life. They are terribly energetic, but all their energy goes into the atmosphere; they are constantly in motion, but the vector of this movement changes almost every day. Of course, there is very little sense from such activities.

On the other hand, there is another category of people who seem to be not so active, but constantly achieve their goal. They say about such people that they are constantly lucky and life itself contributes to all their endeavors. However, is it only a matter of luck? Of course no. There are several simple ways they can use it.

Choose a real goal

You can dream as much as you like about traveling around the world or becoming the richest person in the world. You can even not only dream, but also boldly set yourself such goals. But the matter usually does not go further than this, because these goals are so grandiose and far-off that it is not even clear how to approach them.

Therefore, try to set only realistic and achievable goals for yourself. Achievable not "sometime and if", but in a short, clearly visible period. Let your goals be not so majestic and lofty, but you will know for sure that you can achieve them.

And even smaller

In the first paragraph, we tried to reduce our appetites to their real size. Now we'll take what's left and cut it into even smaller portions. One that can be swallowed in one day without choking.

Try to break your plan for achieving your main goal into small tasks and complete at least one of them every day. Only in this way, with small constant steps, which may not even be noticeable to a prying eye, can you achieve your main goal.

Positive reinforcement

In animal training, the method of positive reinforcement is widely used, when an animal receives a treat for performing an exercise. Despite the primitiveness, this trick works on people, and it is no less effective.

Try to reward yourself with a small reward every time you complete the next task, move forward, complete the stage. Perhaps it will be buying something, a piece of cake, or just relaxing, but it is imperative to reward yourself. This is the only way to make the difficult and sometimes tedious work to achieve your goal an exciting and even enjoyable event.

Seek help

If you are really going to achieve results in this life, then you cannot do without outside help. There are many people in the world who have already followed the path on which you are now, and their experience can help you. Try to find the best teachers, use literature and courses, attract helpers and like-minded people. No matter how much you want to achieve everything yourself, together it will be much easier and faster to do it.

Do the main thing and delegate everything else

If you have a clear idea of your goal and methods of achieving it, then do not let insignificant details slow down your movement towards it. Try to cut off everything that is unnecessary and secondary, that which distracts you or leads you away. If you cannot completely abandon these side tasks, then try to shift them to the shoulders of other people as much as possible.

Instill positive thinking

No matter how serious your actions and efforts are, they will not work if you are not determined to succeed. Believe in yourself, do not doubt your abilities, do not succumb to despondency and panic even in case of failure. The correct positive attitude is half the success in any business.

Make the right choice

Life every day offers us a million different possibilities. And it depends only on us which of these possibilities we will accept and which we will skip past. We make our choice many times every day, and it is important that each of our choices brings us even a millimeter closer to our goal. Consistently and consistently. As experienced cyclists say, “the one who pedals faster is not ahead, but the one who does it without stopping”. And in this they are right.