Are you feeling like you're in a rut of trying and failing? You probably need a new perspective on your "failures." Not all of them—in fact, none of them—need to be viewed as painful experiences that only achieved the end of depressing you.
An easy way to gain this new perspective would be to stand on your desk and look around. However, if your desk is too cluttered, your heels are too high, or your boss is already questioning your sanity, you may want to try this: Never make a mistake. Instead, indulge yourself in "learning experiences." That's really all mistakes are—version of on-the-job training. Besides, when you run into one of these "learning experiences," your new perspective and maybe even stumble on to some shortcuts in the process.
Think back to your most recent "failure." What did it teach you? What have you changed in your life as a result of it? How have you improved since it happened? Focus on these factors rather than on the immediate negative feeling of not achieveing what you'd set out to do. What a "mistake" teaches you is way more important than the mistake itself. Don't let short-sightedness turn your learning experiences into failures.
Be All That You Can Be—Without the Army
From the moment you were born, you've had it. Potential. The ability to reach a higher level than the one on which you currently stand. And you have never lost that ability.
With that in mind, isn't it a tragedy that so many of us stop short of what we could be? The only way to reach your potential is through setting goals and achieving them. The only way to achieve your goals is through utilizing everything you have available to you. Think about taking advantage of available people, technology, and systems, but don't forget about TAKING THE INITIATIVE.
Create your success! Your voice will be the voice to introduce you to new people who could have a profound effect on your achievements. Your mind is the mind that will lead you down the path of possibilities. You are often responsible for what happens to you.
Realize your potential:
1. Write down your goals.
2. Plan the actions needed to achieve your goals.
3. Achieve your goals by doing those actions.
Be all that you can be. Do it yourself. You don't need an army.
Madonna, Andre Agassi, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Hillary Clinton, Michael Jordan, Oprah Winfrey, Martina Navratilova, Jack Nicholson, Barbara Streisand. If we had to use one word to describe these people, we might say "famous." However, if we had to give them a common characteristic, we would probably say "determination." This is the characteristic that earned them the title of "famous."
When we think of people such as these, we often think of them as far removed from ourselves. Why is this? We all have goals and dreams to fulfill, don't we? We are just as determined, aren't we? Then what are we doing about it?
Although each of us is born with potential, not all of us do something with it. Some of us sit back, enjoying the dreams of what we could be until they turn into dreams of what we could have been. Others dismiss their dreams as impossible to attain. What we need to realize is that everything is attainable as long as we have a plan. Having goals is not enough; we also must know how we are going to achieve them.
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