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Achieve Your Goals
In late December, I was talking to my family about New Year's
resolutions. I asked them what resolutions they had, and their responses
surprised me. Apparently, they do not make resolutions anymore. They
were so convinced that resolutions were useless, that they have stopped
making them. Although in one way, I admired the honesty of this
approach, in another way I was somewhat shocked. Achieving your goals is
one of the most important things in life, and just because you meet with
some failures does not mean you should stop setting concrete goals.
After all, you have no chance of learning how to achieve your goals if
you never set them!
There are many different ways of setting goals. A lot of people have one
method by which they claim you can achieve your goal, but in my
experience different methods work for different people. Some people, for
example, rely heavily on religious faith to achieve their goals. They
will tell you that to achieve your goals, you need Christ, or some other
commonly known religious figure at the center of your life.
This may work for them, but it is not the only way to achieve your goal.
Other people have a much more concrete approach to setting and achieving
goals. They say that, to achieve your goals, you have to think and act
like a highly successful person. They use psychological tricks and
personal affirmations to help achieve your goal. In many ways, these
affirmations work much like religious faith does for those who are more
interested in it. Rather than using faith in God to achieve your goals,
these people advocate using faith in yourself.
Still other people say that the best way to achieve your goals is
through therapy and counseling. They say that the reason people are
dysfunctional is because they have certain deep conflicts holding them
back from achieving goals in their lives. They advocate all kinds of
different therapies to achieve your goals, from solution focused
therapy, to psychotherapy, to life coaching.
In my personal life, I believe that the best way to achieve your goals
is to combine elements from all of these approaches. If I feel alienated
from myself and my goals, sometimes I will make a list and figure out
what I have to do, and other times I will pray to God for guidance, or
seek out a therapist. The best way to achieve your goals is to figure
out what works for you, and for me it depends on the goals, and on what
is holding me back. |
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