A PLAN TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS

Does this happen to you too? Setting very nice goals writing them and failing to implement and achieve them at the end of the day? I personally suffered a lot from this challenge in my life until I came to discover that for me to implement and achieve my goals I need to have a good and easy to go plan to reach my goals.

Most of us forget this!

Most of us set goals and forget an important part which is making a plan to achieve such goals. A plan to achieve your good goals refers to important steps you are going to take in order to get what you want in life. For instance if your goal is to loose weight in the coming 6 months then you shouldn’t end up to such a goal, what you are supposed to do is planning and making a strategy on what you are going to do so as to loose such a weight in the coming six months.

A plan can be to do a 30 minutes special body exercises which can help you reduce weight every day, stop eating too much oily foods from now onwards, attending classes for weight loosing training ones a week, practicing diet according to specialist consultation from now onwards etc. living through this plan can assure you achieving your good goal, out of that it is not possible to even start moving towards your goal; you must make a plan.

Some of us ends up here…

Some of us ends up having a dream but for you to achieve your dream you need to set goals because setting goals is like breaking down your dream into small pieces which can be easy to handle but at the end of the day it is also difficult to achieve these goals if you do not have a plan to do so. If you have goals try to ask yourself on which steps you are going to take so as to reach them or what you should do every day to reach such goals and that will be your plan. 

In 3 months I achieved a goal set two years back 

For a very long time I had a dream of writing a personal development book and it took years without being written then I decided to set a goal to reach this dream, my goal was to write a Swahili version book by December last year 2012 and again I didn’t achieve it, this year I decided to think beyond that goal and decided to make a plan of waking up at 4 AM every day and write 3 to 4 pages or one chapter before going to work, another plan was to set an alarm to wake me up 15 minutes before 4am so that I can use this 15 minutes to wake up from my bed and start writing. 

After making this plan I started living it and in the next 3 months a book of 150 pages was over. From there I drew a lesson that for anybody to achieve his/ her good goals he/she must make a good plan on how she/he is going to reach such goals.

Have you set a plan to achieve your goals?  

If not this is your time, think the steps you are going to take to reach your good goals and put them into action or start living them today with great discipline then I am assuring you that you are going to achieve your goals in your time bound.

One thing you must remember is that achieving your good goals is not an overnight deal, you must make a plan to start small and slowly you are going to finish the whole thing. Your speed to it matters a lot to reach there faster so keep on working hard and never waste your time by focusing and concentrating in to irrelevant activities instead make sure that everything you do every day contributes to the development of your goals and vision; i.e. it relates to your goals in different ways then you are sure of achieving your goals and dreams.

Good luck!

By Erick Chrispin

HOW TO MAKE YOURSELF FEEL GOOD?

What do you do when not feeling good? Bad feelings sometimes is an outcome of some frustrations however if you won’t control, it may lead to your new frustrations and stresses.

At the end of the day you will have to control your bad feeling and make yourself feel good for the sake of your enjoyable life, if you won’t do so then you are sure of acquiring all the stress related affections in your body for instance ulcers, bad blood pressure, heart attack and probably mental breakdown etc.

That is what is happening to many people in the recent world especially in urban areas where life is more complex, it forces you to be a self-made person that you need to take care of yourself because you are living in the free market economy where an individual have power to choose and determine his/her life style. In this society success is when you realize happiness in your life. We are doing whatever we do, searching for happiness and I think this is your ultimate success. You can acquire it by doing business, having more money, getting married, buying a nice car etc.

For you to feel good you have to change the state of your mind;

The feeling you have now is an outcome of an experience you have or what you are experiencing by the time being. Think of what makes you feel the way you feel now, it must be something you have experienced in your life and you got such an experience through your senses; by hearing, smelling, watching and probably touching. The information came into your mind through these doors and now you are believing into them and getting stressed, frustrated and bored. It has created a bad feeling in your mind and that is your state of mind you must change now.

Movement can change your state of mind

If you are feeling bad and stay at the same position all the time it won’t be easy for you to change the bad state of your mind, try to do something different which will shift the paradigm of your mindset and start thinking something else from which will determine the new feeling you are going to experience. Choose to engage into something good that you love most, for me it could be watching Tanzanian movies, music or going to a music concert, reading motivational books and having stories with my best friends etc. how about you? Stop thinking the same now go and engage into something good and precious you love now. That will help make you feel good.

Stop asking dis-empowering questions

I met this friend of mine who was in quarrel with his girlfriend who was no longer picking his phone for two days now, he is then getting frustrated, crying and asking questions like “why is she doing this to me?, why don’t she value my love to her? Why me- why me- why, why?” and these question didn’t offer him the solution to a problem instead they made him more guilt, stressed and frustrated to the extent he was about to make new decision of breaking his relationship with her.

Hey my friend don’t ask “WHY ME?” try to ask empowering questions like how I am I going to improve our relationship out of these quarrels, to which extent my girlfriend or boyfriend has been good to me? Keep on asking the question which will help you solve a prevailing problem instead of concentrating into questions which makes you groan and feel worse and probably give up.

When I feel bad because of some circumstances I use to ask myself on how this circumstance is beneficial and makes me grow and succeed more in my life. This is what normally change my state of mind and make me feel good.

What questions are you asking yourself now? Are they giving you answers which pushes you to improve your situation or makes you groan and feel bad of yourself? An instant change of your state of mind can happen if you will concentrate in asking empowering question like how your situation can be used to improve your life or what benefit are you getting out of such a situation etc.

Stay and improve your new state of mind

As you have shifted your bad state of mind to a new better one which makes you feel good, you better stay at it by repeating it most of your time and learning how you can improve it day to day and this will make you start believing more in it and leave aside the previous bad circumstance which made your bad state of mind. Staying and improving your new state of mind will create your new behavior which will assure you a long life good feeling.

Remember you can make yourself feeling good by changing your movement and stop asking dis-empowering question and instead concentrating in empowering questions.

Enjoy your good feeling.

By Erick Chrispin

HOW TO BUILD YOUR RESULT BASED AMBITION TO SUCCEED IN LIFE?

It takes your ambition to get what you need in life. Being ambitious is necessary if you want to succeed, you can write a number of goals, visions and missions in paper but without being determined by ambition to achieve them they are going to die just in that paper.

Ambition goes together with action, it fuels your action to execute your goals and vision so as you can accomplish your mission. 

Are you also facing a challenge of not succeeding although you are ambitious? Sometimes you build an ambition which fade up quickly before even starting to execute it?

If all these or some of them happens in your life then you need to know that your ambition might be SELFISH. Selfish ambition makes you focus on what you want and not needing, it makes you focus on short term successes, it makes you seek for power over others, winning others, being on top of those who helps you to succeed, getting everything for yourself and so many negative intentions.

The result of selfish ambition is you to become jealous over others who succeed in the same path you are going through which may result into you giving up, hating them, stop asking for their support, killing them so that you can win over them, enmity, stop perusing your dream thinking it is taken by other people, limiting your creativity level, becoming rude to others and doing anything which will make you win even if is making others poor or die.

Even though you are going to get what you want out of your selfish ambition in life the fact is it will never last, you will die ruthlessly as the way you grew up before. The same speed you used to affect others for yourself benefit will apply to your falling apart. This is what happened to different self-ambitious leaders who succeeded by affecting others but ended up killed shamelessly.  

Get rid of selfish ambition 

Let the purpose of your ambition be helping others to succeed in their life, let your ambition follow your purpose to advocate for humanity, keep in mind that you need to explore the reason WHY YOU EXIST in the world, you are not there for yourself instead for people to make a world a better place for all of us to live through our natural given gift of talents and personal unique abilities to do wonderful innovations.

Try to explore your ambition now,

Is it selfish? Are you jealous of other people who succeed over you? Are you becoming angry when someone else peruse a kind of your dream before you do that? Are you affecting others for the sake of your success? Are you following your role model so that you can ultimately win over him or her? Are you focusing on the short term results instead of long term? Is your ambition works under purpose to serve others or is due to your desire to become powerful over others? If all these apply to you then your ambition is a limiting to your success one, even though you are going to succeed but there is high probability that your success won’t last.

A result based ambition

Makes you believe that you are living in a world of plenty so even when your dream is perused by another person you still have a chance to do it in a unique way which represents your personal talents which is incomparable to any other.

Your true ambition which will lead to your lasting success will trigger you to ask yourself on WHY ARE YOU THERE? It will give you a chance to come up with dreams which will support others to live better in their life and honor you. It will pull all the possibility and motivations to make you succeed or achieve your vision and goals.

Choose to be SELFLESS, build a selfless ambitions to achieve whatever you need in your life and that will motivate you, it will push you into action, it will trigger your creativity level, build peace of mind, rise your self-esteem and so many benefits.

Good luck

By Erick Chrispin