Weekly Challenge – Setting Long-Term Goals

The Challenge:

This first task is to record in a notebook or journal your answers to the following two questions:

If you could only accomplish one thing professionally, what would it be? When would you want to achieve it?

This task is worth 15-points on your scorecard.

Thought Provoking Questions About the Task:

List any reasons why you think you do NOT deserve this goal.
List what you have to do to achieve this goal.

The Lesson:

It is important to have several professional goals in your life, but it is even better to know which one you truly want to accomplish above the rest. Depending on the size of this one accomplishment, you may be feeling that this dream is too large or difficult for you to obtain. When you are feeling this way, a simple question to ask yourself is, why NOT me? Why couldn’t I be the one to accomplish this dream? The answer is, you can achieve whatever goal you put your mind to. The process may be lengthy depending on the requirements to achieve your goal but if you stick to it, you will obtain your goal.

If you are feeling like you have surpassed your time to be able to achieve this goal, that “if you were only younger” you might have time to succeed, I ask you to remember these people that didn’t let age hold them back. Colonel Sanders started Kentucky Fried Chicken at the age of 65. Mary Key Ash started Mary Kay Cosmetics at the age of 45. Jim Morris began his professional baseball career at the age of 35 (for inspiration watch the Disney movie entitled “The Rookie”). Don’t let your age hold you back.

Lastly, many people look at what they want and they tell themselves that the dream belongs to someone else that is more worthy. Right now, tell yourself that you deserve the goal as much as anybody. If you have the right mindset and ability, you can achieve goals of all sizes. In sports, there are teams that are bigger, faster and stronger, but it is always the team with the most willpower that wins. In order to obtain your goal, you merely have to have the willpower to take the actions to succeed.

“The happiest people are the ones who follow their dreams most closely” – Donny Deutsch