4 Achievement Power Tips

 

Do you often set yourself goals, but fail to achieve them? These 4 tips may seem simple, but they can have a very powerful effect on your ability to achieve your goals and dreams.

1. Clear the clutter from your life

Quite often, your outer environment is a reflection of the way you think and feel. Look at your living or work space. Do they always seem disorganised and cluttered? It’s important that you start to order your environment to reflect the ordered life you're building.

Clear away unnecessary clutter from your surroundings and your digital life (we live so much of our lives digitally, that it’s easy to forget that our digital lives can have just as much of an impact on us as our physical lives).

By organising your environment you’re sending a very clear message to your subconscious mind that you intend to get organised. When you begin to organise your environment, it allows you to develop the basic skills needed for organising your life and helps to free up the mental space to work on your goals. By having a clear mind and working space, your attention and focus can now be better spent on your goals and the actions it will take to achieve them.

2. Don’t be too rigid on achieving your goals in exactly the manner you intend to

A major factor in people not achieving their goals is their inability to be flexible and restructure their plans or change direction when circumstances dictate that these should be done. Whilst you can remain fixed on the end result, keep an open mind on how you’re going to achieve it and allow yourself to adapt to changing circumstances and information. 

3. Don’t focus on the ‘mistakes’ and ‘failures’

A major mistake that people can make whilst working on their goals is to focus on what they believe to be mistakes and failures. Your energy goes where your attention goes, so focusing on what you think is a mistake or a failure will only increase the negativity that you’re feeling, which will make you feel less motivated and will create more ‘mistakes’ and ‘failures’ for you to find.

Instead of focusing on your ‘mistakes’ and ‘failures’, analyse them and look for the lesson that they’re trying to teach you. Focus on the learning opportunities, the solutions that you’ve now found or, at the very least, focus on the fact you’ve now been given an opportunity to learn and improve, which in turn means that ‘you’re still in the game’. Apply what you’ve learnt from your ‘mistakes’ and ‘failures’ and use them as references for the future.

4. Make sure you follow through on your plans

Persistence can accomplish things that nothing else can. How many times have people been close to achieving a goal but then, without knowing just how close they really were, they've quit?

You may be someone who has drive and motivation at the start of a new goal, but you find that your enthusiasm starts to wane when the end result doesn’t come as quickly as you’d like or you start facing tough challenges and set-backs. Keep persisting. People who persist, especially in the tough and challenging times, are those who ALWAYS win!