I've been thinking about goals...

"I've had lots of goals in my life....almost all of them where never achieved"

I've pretty much given up on setting goals, until recently. That was until I had several epiphany's (check the spelling on that). One day it just dawned on me why I so rarely ever reached my goals. And the answer....I didn't have the required motivation to make the committment to reach them. I always started out with great intentions, but my desire just seemed to fade.

Then one day....eureka, I figured out why my motivation wasn't near strong enough. You see the self help people always advocate that you make goals that stretch your abilites but are logically and believably achievable. That's crap!

Reason number one is that by setting small goals you are also setting a limitation on yourself. You may achieve that goal, but no more!

Goals that stretch you a little are just not very exciting. It's just too easy to say to yourself...forget it, I'm just not motivated enough. This is similar to those New Years resolutions that we make and forget about 2 weeks later. But don't despair....it's the Truthteller to the rescue with the secret behind motivation!

"only goals that are unrealistic, have the motivational magic to move us towards high level of success"

Now a really big unrealistic goal, that has power to motivate. Think about the would be athlete that dreams about playing in the big leagues. The kid who dreams about being the next Michael Jordon or Tiger Woods, will be motivated to work his tail off for many years.

If you think about those who have achieved great levels of success in any indeavor, they don't do it in small believable steps. They certainly were'nt realistic about what they wanted to do. Few believed in them but they didn't care, they were irrational.

If you aimed for the stars but all that you achieved was to be over the moon, hey that would be pretty cool (ok that was corny but its getting late)

So pleasant dreams amigos and....dream big!

Eduardo