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Purpose behind your goal

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Are you giving up on your goals?
Purpose behind your goal

Why do you want to achieve your goal? Why do you even set goals?

In my last post about goals I mentioned many reasons why we end up giving up on our goals. In this post I am going to write about the underlying reason behind us giving up.

Reason most people end up giving up on their goals/dreams is because they do not have a strong enough reason, a strong enough why they want to achieve their goals. They get motivated by going to a motivational seminar, listening to a motivational speech, or reading a motivational book.

Sometimes we start working towards a goal with a strong purpose. But during the journey towards the goal we end up getting too caught up in the means. Sometimes we lose focus of our real purpose for achieving the goal.

For an example: you want a healthy and a muscular body so you start exercising. You learn all the exercises and start performing them with perfect form. You start eating right as well. Everything’s going great until you start seeing other people lifting tons of weights at the gym. Instead of focusing on your exercises and form you let your ego get the better of you. You start trying to lift heavier and heavier weights while sacrificing your form. You forget your real purpose and start focusing more on lifting heavier and heavier weights. But there’s always going to be someone stronger than you so you start to let that get you down. You try harder and harder until you injure yourself and eventually you quit.

Another example: you start a blog for the sole reason of helping other people. You learn about blogging, marketing your blogs and so on to start monitizing your blog. Nothing wrong with that as if you’re providing service to the people you deserve to be rewarded for it. But you start to focus more on money and less on providing service, or what you real purpose was to begin blogging. After a little while and not much money coming in from your blog you get discouraged and eventually quit. This happened because your focus shifted to making money. You lost track of your real purpose.

If you have a strong enough reason for achieving any goal and you look at it on a consistent basis (e.g. once in the morning when you wake up and once before going to bed), you will be unstoppable! Your purpose and goal will get so strongly imbedded in your subconscious mind that all the forces in the universe will come together to help you achieve it.

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2 Responses to “Purpose behind your goal”

Terry on September 1st, 2008 6:05 pm

Very good post.

It’s so true that we can forget about the real purpose behind our goals and get side tracked by other issues.

I liked the example you gave about blogging. It hit the nail on the head.
Ricky on September 6th, 2008 12:55 pm

Thanks It’s so easy to get side tracked.

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