Set your goals for 2020 and pursue them!

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COMPLIMENTS of the new season!”

This is what we say as we wish one the best for the New Year. “Happy New Year”, we also say.

We all desire and hope for a change in our lives with every coming year.

Most of us feel that a new year ushers and signals a new beginning.

But the new season can only become new when the one who is entering it has a changed mindset.

One needs a new mindset and devise new ways of doing things. One needs an improved strategy that can tackle the

New Year’s challenges from a different angle.

We need to have laid down targets, otherwise we are going to waste a lot of opportunities.

Do something new, break the habit of living without goals, plan for the year, write down your goals!

In order to achieve success in life, you need to set your priorities right. You can only set them right when there is clarity of thought and intention. Clarity of thought and intention can only be reached when targets are written down.

It is important to have a roadmap of where you want to be and who you want to become in future. This then forces you to think through ways of executing the plan. Writing goals down helps you manage your time and yourself in the quest to achieve success.

Many times, people get overwhelmed with responsibilities and tasks such that they end up messing up everything. It is because they have no set goals; if they do, then their goals are not properly broken down. Goals should be set in order of priority. Time should also be allocated to each one and clearly laid out to avoid clumsiness in execution.

Writing goals helps you maintain consistency and persistence on what you want to achieve because your focus will be clearly fixed on an exact position. Your goals should be broken down properly into weeks, months and years until you reach your target.

Time is the determining factor in goal-setting. When there is no time frame then you haven’t started. How then will you know you are making progress or not if you have not set a time frame.

If your goal is to start a project, set a date of commencing and a timeline so that it can act as a guide and alarm if you are making progress or you are drowning in procrastination.

Goals need to be set realistically but let not the absence of financial capability be an impediment. Sometimes money will follow where order and desire are. You do not need to wait until you have money for you to draft that billion-dollar business project proposal. You will never find a heap of money waiting for you somewhere. Even if that is to happen mysteriously, you need to have a proper plan of how you will use the money when you get it. Many people have won lotteries, but today if you look at them, signs of poverty is all you see on them.

Never think that when you have the money that is when you will start planning. Planning after one has gotten the money often leads to panic buying. You will not prioritize needs; you will give precedence to wants because they will be the loudest at that moment. You must always your business goals.

The moment you get the financial means you will be prepared enough to know where to disburse the funds in wisdom and rationality.

Millions of dollars are conceived in the mind first before they manifest in reality. If it rings in your mind, write it down. Stick it on your wall or bedroom ceiling; create a vision board.

Face your goals and never run away from them no matter what comes your way. The economy must not dictate your pace. When you see others running away from the face of the economic meltdown, do not be discouraged because for you, that will be an opportunity.

Achieving goals requires you to be bold, courageous, patient and persistent. Do not fret because you have seen giants in the market falling. Run your own race. You are not in competition with anyone else other than yourself.

You are your own person; you are the sole driver of your life. The direction you take should not be influenced by what others are doing.

Set your own standards in life and never allow artificial influence to dictate to you that you are a failure.

After setting your goals, execute them. You are not going to stroll freely as one who skates on ice. Real goals encounter obstacles. It’s the way you will react to impediments that will determine either success or failure.

Ignore everything else and keep focusing on what you want to achieve. Say, you want to build a house this year, there is still going to be issues of currency in question, let it not be a distraction to your goal. Still the united states dollar against our local bond note rate will even be spiralling out of control but you need to stick to your goal.

Remember others have built and bought mansions. Why should the same challenge stop you when it has enriched others?

You need to be stubborn at everything else, casting aside negative aspersion. Horses on a track or on chariots are clad with blinkers to prevent them from reacting to any other distraction.

Focus on your goal and remain fixed upon the set targets.

You will also make mistakes, one after another — but don’t stop. They are meant to teach you better ways of doing things, not to discourage you. If you are not making mistakes, then it means you are not doing anything.

Plan how you intend to attain your goals. Take steps towards achieving them, begin by one, then two. Take a jog, three quarter pace, eventually you will find yourself sprinting towards them. Success will be on your way in no time. Try today, try tomorrow, make a mistake, try the day after tomorrow, make another mistake but try again, keep trying, again and again.

That is how goals are pursued. Never make a mistake of entering into a new year without set goals. If you do not have goals, then there is nothing for you to achieve in the year. The new year is only new for those with goals, desires and aspirations to attain.

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Have a roadmap of where you want to be and who you want to become in future, set your goals.

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