“Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.” ~ Robert Collier

Your motivation level is determined by what you choose to focus on. If you continually think about what you don’t want to do then you will dread and avoid doing it.

Focus on What You Want

Place your attention on what you want instead of the obstacles that stand in the way of you getting it. Obsessing over the tasks that you must perform only increases your dread towards doing them. It actually causes them to become bigger barriers to your success.

With goal setting it is inevitable that you will miss achieving some of the goals that you set. Recovery from that failure can be hard. You don’t have to stay down long. Here are some survival tips you can use when you miss hitting your goals.

Don’t get down on yourself. When we miss our goal we think all is lost. We look at all of the time and effort that went into the attempt as being wasted. We feel like we could have done more. Failing sometimes makes us feel like a failure.

There was an old dog sitting on the porch moaning and whining all day long. A stranger passed by stopped and asked the dog’s owner why did the dog whine and moan like that. His owner said the dog was sitting on a nail. The stranger asked, “Then why doesn’t he get off the nail?” To which the owner replied, “It guess it doesn’t hurt enough yet”.

Life is dull and boring without a dream. In our natural state we are goal striving beings and we are at our happiest when we are motivated by a dream.

When we have a burning desire and we actually make a decision to go pursue that dream we get excited. So often the  pursuit of our dream rivals the actual accomplishment. It is the expectation of accomplishment that actually drives us.

A dream causes us to set goals. It causes us to make plans. After we have set our goals it is our dream that motivates us to follow the plan until we hit our goals consistently enough to obtain our dream.

Excitement will take you a long ways towards hitting your goals. After hearing a good motivational speaker most of us feel like we can accomplish anything that we want to do. Unfortunately that motivation and excitement does not last. Here are five ways to stay excited as you are working towards hitting your goals.

1 – Keep your eyes on the prize. Focus on your desired result every minute of the day. Never let discouragement or doubt replace the excitement that you feel when you think about your dream. See what you want clearly in your mind’s eye. Make a concerted effort to remind yourself that every action that you take has a direct impact on the eventual achievement of your goal.