How close are you to achieving your goals without realising it?

Have you ever sat and watched an insect hurling itself at a window and wondered why it doesn't move up six inches and fly out through the opening?

We've heard a lot about the spider in Robert Burns example, try, try and try again and I'm a great believer in persistence. There's the story also of the miners who were so close... like almost within a fingertip of the rich seam when they gave up.

It's true that many of us don't realise how close to success we are when we give up.

So giving up isn't what succeeding is about. But neither is hurling yourself at a closed window till your brain hurts and you're full of scars.

Sometimes you have to take a different course, change your route in order to get the insights you need. I've hurled myself at enough closed doors in the past and I don't do it any more. I refuse to give myself so much pain and grief.

What we need to understand is that our goals start inside our heads, and that's also where we create the circumstances to achieve them. Many people won't move on their goals until they know the how to do it. Until they have all the pieces of the jigsaw in place.

That's not the way it works. It works by us setting the goal and then moving towards it. I heard a great way of putting it recently. GOYA. Not the Spanish painter, but GET OFF YOUR… I'll leave you to finish the sentence.

Waiting till you have everything in place is the fastest, or maybe I mean the slowest way to paralyse yourself. Stopping you from doing anything.

I don't know what goals you have or how close you think you are to them. If nothing is happening with them right now maybe it's time to remember not the spider but the fly.

What will happen right now if you move your focus about your goal six inches? If where you are now is the result of what you've been thinking in the past them maybe you need to think differently.

Did you know that people generally lose focus on what they're doing between 6 and 10 times in a minute? What increase in efficiency and achievement will you gain if you can reduce that to 3 or even zero?

Try it - then let me know what happens. If nothing is moving at the moment then any shift has to be for the good.

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© Sharon Roberts, 2008
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