How to Achieve Your Dreams

How to Achieve Your Dreams

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  Achieve Your Dreams:Maxwell Ranasinghe
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  Dreamers
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  Seven Steps toAccomplish Your Goals Don't let your goals and resolutions fall by the wayside. Chances are that to achieve your dreams and live a life you love, those goals and resolutions are crucial Goal setting and goal achievement are easier if you follow these six steps for effective and successful goal setting and resolution accomplishment.
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  You need todeeply desire the goal or resolution. Napoleon Hill, in his landmark book “ Think and Grow Rich”had it right. "The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat." So, your first step in goal setting and achieving your dreams is that you've got to really, really want to achieve the goal.
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  Visualize yourself achievingthe goal. "The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.“ What will your achievement feel like? How will your life unfold differently as a result? If the goal is a thing, some gurus of goal setting recommend that you keep a picture of the item where you see and are reminded of it every day
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  Make a planfor the path you need to follow to accomplish the goal. Create action steps to follow. Identify a critical path. The critical path defines the key accomplish-ments along the way, the most important steps that must happen for the goal to become a reality. Stephen Covey said, "All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things.
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  Commit to achievingthe goal by writing down the goal. "The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen." Write down the plan, the action steps and the critical path. Somehow, writing down the goal, the plan and a timeline will help and motivate you to take action towards achievement. Break down your plan into small components Write the component of your plan that you should be executing this week in your weekly plan
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  Establish times forchecking your progress in your calendar system , It could be a day planner, weekly planner or a PDA No matter how positively you are thinking, you need to assess your lack of progress If you’re not making progress or feel lazy find out what factors that are keeping you from accomplishing your goal and develop a plan to overcome them.
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  Appoint a thirdparty to motivate you A person whom you think that who really like you doing well It could be a family member like father or mother, it could be your wife or husband or even a child, your mentor, lecturer, priest or any body If you believe in God and you are regularly having a dialogue with God by way of prayer or meditation, you may appoint Him as your motivator Let them know that you are going to accomplish something and you need their fullest support Ask them to call you and inquire about the progress Share with them the joy of reaching certain steps in your plan
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  This a presentationdone by Maxwell Ranasinghe for university students. You may have your own insight, discuss with others, develop it further and share with all Contact Maxwell at [email_address] You will realise your dreams