One word at a time, and then another, and another, until you’ve created an article so big, so interesting, and you have achieved it.
You can’t achieve a goal you don’t set. You cannot achieve a goal you are not aiming.
This then becomes simple. What do I want to achieve?
Just as a mile starts with a step, start with an idea and a small action towards what it is you want.
WHAT CAN I DO?
We are all capable of doing specific actions. These actions don’t have to be intensely difficult. Though, it is these actions that we have repeated over and over that have become habit. It is the Habit, the automatism of action, which is easy. It is because we have repeated these actions over and over that they have become easy, and if ease wasn’t enough, they have become refined too!
What habits do we partake in day in and day out that we don’t even think about anymore?
Once we have found the habits we have already practiced: DO I REALLY WANT THIS HABIT?
If the answer is NO, then it’s time to implement and find a goal which, when cracked open and simplified into small simple baby steps, becomes a series of easy TO DO steps we can take action on without breaking our heads open or feeling overwhelmed. It is crucial to break tasks down into bite size chunks which make sense.
Now, I have many aspirations in life, in fact I am ambitious beyond my wildest dreams.
My only problem… taking action. Yes, I am human too!
We stop taking action and go back to our comfort zones, or in other words we become stagnant and procrastinate ( because we don’t know where to begin, or we think we aren’t good enough, or we are afraid we won’t be able to live up to the task, or that we don’t have the skills required…). Though, once we become aware that we are living in paralysis around the idea of a goal, through observation, we’re able to make a change.
We make changes by introducing incremental changes in direction. And the directions we go towards are those we envision in our minds.
So, I decided, one October evening, to create lists of things I wanted. These lists are what define what we want and how we are going to break down the steps for each implementation we are going to take.
It’s important to note that we’ll fail enough times to solidify what we want and our Will, will then crystallize into a concrete course of action. We’ll fail, until we learn enough lessons for us to truly know what we want and if it’s really worth it.
1) Slow Down: We need to take the time to be centered and at ease with ourselves first.
2) Define: We must Take the time to define what it is we want and if what we want is truly worth it.
3) Break it Down: Once we know what we want. We Break down “our goal” into simple, easy, tasks which we will be capable of managing.
4) Takeing our time: Taking our time is ever so important. It’s one of our most important ressources if not THE most important resource we have. If we live in a permanent state of fear, that there isn’t enough,
or that we don’t have enough time, or that we have to get everything done NOW; we won’t achieve anything at all. (We’ll probably end up in a state of paralysis due to “not having enough time to accomplish…” what we’re supposed to achieve in a year or two years… Let’s give ourselves the gift of time.
5) Letting go: By all means we should go get what we want to get and achieve what we want, though learning to let go and give ourselves a time out from time to time. “Pushing ourselves beyond our limits” is a great quote for instagram, but we’ll push our self into burn out if we don’t let go once in a while.
6) It’s all meant to be: It will all work out! And if it doesn’t, know that the door we were pushing against wasn’t supposed to open at this time. Life is smart, so much so that it gives us what we need when we need it. Not what we want, but what we need, and most times that’s more than enough. Trust that it will work out.
“All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them”
Walt Disney
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