In the past few articles on this topic I have mentioned five things that contribute towards achieving ones goal, in this instance making that first Million Dollars.
Of course this goal can be something else such as losing weight, winning a championship, recovering from a serious injury and many more.
It depends on what you are looking for.
The first five steps discussed passion, hard work, perseverance, the ability to cope with failure and to believe in oneself.
The next important step would be to define our goals exactly, peg a delivery date and keep that goal in mind at all times.
We tend to, and I include myself in this, drift through life.
When we are in high powered executive positions at companies, we map out the strategy for the company.
We plan the path the company is going to be taking over the next year, and even up to five years.
What do we do for our lives? Do we ever plan past the basic things such as find a home, get married, have a child and maybe think about the school the kid is going to need to go to.
We just drift through life.
And mostly our goals tend to have the same kind of vague identity around them.
We do not attach the same meticulous planning to our life's goals as we do to business for instance.
Somehow, it's almost as if our achievements are not as important.
Sure, we plan our next holiday.
But even those plans are often at the mercy of what lastminute.
com or expedia is able to offer.
How many of us actually plan and plot our career? Do we look at our career path and determine what is required to move forward, or do we react when we are offered a better position or somebody headhunts us from a competing company.
Do we planour first property ownership or do we just go with the flow and when the situation arises we kind of drift into property ownership.
Regrettably, that is exactly what we tend to do.
We muddle along and our planning does not go further than holidays or the next week-end's activities with our friends.
Identify your goals.
Seriously.
This is really important.
Sitting there and thinking that you would like to have a Million Dollars in your account is going to get you nowhere.
Well it will probably get you to buy a ticket at the Lotto outlet.
That requires no planning.
You just drift into the shop and colour in a few numbers, or you can even get a lucky dip ticket.
That means you don't even need to think about numbers.
You let the machine determine your fate.
Wow.
Even if you don't believe in getting that Million Dollars or whatever other secret dream you have.
Just actually putting together a strategy for you life, could possibly boost your achievements, create satisfaction when you achieve those goals.
It would improve you life just through that.
However, if you do wish to have that Million Dollars in your bank account, you seriously need to plan, and determine the steps you are going to take to achieve that balance in your bank account.
There is no invisible magic that is going to just put a Million Dollars into your account.
You know this.
But you still try and find an easy way to get it.
Which is why you and I read all sorts of stuff on the internet which confirms to us we can just sit back and it will happen.
Well hello.
Not really.
These are just con-artists who give you a free e-book and hope you will be sucker enough to buy the upgrade.
It's not going to work You will be $10 poorer, but you will nothave a Million Dollars in your account.
And no it's not going to just manifest in your account.
You will need passion, hard work, perseverance etc to make that Million Dollars.
You know it.
You just don't want to admit it because it requires stepping out of your comfort zone and working at all the elements that I have mentioned so far.
So what is it going to be? A constant moan about how bad life is, or a huge effort into planning your goals and going for them? I'm going to try the second one.
Want to join me?