My answer to that question is the first key that hinders people from accomplishing their goals. Which is that most people lose the momentum of enthusiasm that emerges when they first set their goals, once you lose enthusiasm in your goal, it become impossible to keep the goals alive? Therefore, being enthusiastic about your goal will make you commit your focus and energy to bring that goal to manifestation.
A quote from Henry Ford says “You can do anything if you have enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes rise to the stars. Enthusiasm is the spark in your eye, the swing in your gait, the grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of your will and your energy to execute your ideas. Enthusiasts are fighters, they have fortitude, and they have staying qualities. Enthusiasm is at the bottom of all progress! With it there is accomplishment. Without it, there are only alibis.
Enthusiasm is a powerful tool to put to work to accomplish those goals, when you are enthused and excited about your goal you will be amazed that people around you get excited too and the goal becomes a fun adventure. Your enthusiasm and the excitement around you would keep the momentum going until you accomplish those goals.
The second key to achieving your goals is, setting goals that are bigger than yourself; your goals must be challenging to compel you to take action. A goal that have not been properly reasoned out to assess what it will cause you if you fail to achieve it would easily lose its drive and the reason why you want to achieve it. On the other hand, a goal that has a cost and effect of what you stand to lose or gain, would stir up an inspiration in you to accomplish it.
The key here to stand the chances of achieving your goal is to set goals that are significant bigger than what you think you can achieve, and the power behind these tools is that the goals would frighten you a little and excite you a lots which is fine because it create the drivers and energy you need to achieve your goals. The thing is most people are far more capable than they initially neither believe nor give themselves credit for.
A goal that frightens us pushes us out of our comfort zone to something bigger than we imagined and being outside our comfort zone is a path that leads to growth.
A quote from Ted Turner says “You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for”.
Another by Ralph Ransom says: “Man was created as a being, who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one”
The third key is consistency with the actions you take to accomplish your goal as it will result not only in the tangible form you will see but also would mentally strengthen your being because consistency would send a message to your sub-conscious mind that this is the result you want to create for yourself and in turn create mastery in accomplishing your dreams.
It does not matter how much you are doing but being consistent would enable you to eat a whole elephant bit by bit as the say it. Consistency is an effort over time that equals success, no matter how overwhelming the goals you set yourself are, taking consistent action would move you closer to achieve your goals and you will become better at it. Just small actions consistently would eventually and ultimately produce the results you once only dreamed about.
Benjamin Disraeli quoted “A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance”.
Robert Collier quoted “Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out”
