And above all, you must make the decision in advance that you will continue until you reach your destination. This does not mean that you are not aware of the problems and difficulties in the world. Then think about the steps you can take starting today to get from where you are now to where you want to be in the future.
The more reasons you have, the more likely you are to become unstoppable in your movement towards your destination. If you cannot fully believe in your conscious mind that you can achieve a goal, none of your mental powers will. Now is when you demonstrate to yourself and others that you are really serious about your goal.
You create those feelings within yourself by imagining that you have already achieved your goal. Identify all the obstacles you will need to overcome to reach your goal. The more clarity you have about who those people really are, the more likely you are to accept.
Make a list of everything you can think of that you need to do to reach your goal, to reach your destiny.
You can only influence one part of the problem equation: the way you respond to problems as they arise. You may find that you are a poor time manager or that you lack self-discipline. When you set a new goal or start towards a new destination, you will experience challenges and difficulties that you never anticipated or anticipated.
The inevitable crises you experience in your daily life are the true tests of your life. They are the best indicator of the level of courage, intelligence, perseverance and foresight that you have developed so far. This requires you to purposefully practice some form of detachment when dealing with an unexpected turn of events.
Only when you feel that you have learned all you can about the problem do you make your recommendations and decisions. When you can calmly and confidently admit that you are not perfect, that you came to the wrong conclusion based on the information you had and that you made a mistake, the situation is over. When you have the strength to simply admit that you've changed your mind, you can move on.
Personal excellence is perhaps the most important of all the invisible and intangible assets you can acquire. When you confidently believe and expect to reach the exact goal or answer for you at the exact right time, your superconscious will work quickly and efficiently. But your superconscious also knows that you need to learn certain lessons in order to maintain your success once you achieve it.
Remember, if you want people to trust you, the first requirement is that you must be trustworthy. Perhaps the greatest challenge you will ever face in life is conquering fear and developing courage. But the more you look for options, the more likely you are to get the security you want.
You will set big, challenging and exciting goals, and you will feel confident that you can achieve them. You need self-discipline to delay gratification, to save and invest your money so that you can achieve financial independence over the course of your working life. Every time you persevere in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.
And the higher and more challenging the goals you set for yourself, the more disappointments and difficulties you will experience.
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