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Setting a Goal, Taking the First Step(s)

A majority of people do not realize that you have to work towards your goal. People often think they have time to reach your goal. Thinking this way places a negative impact, because the more time wasted will turn into no time to accomplishing your goal. To accomplish a goal, it is an everyday grind, commitment, and dedication. When setting a goal, think about this:

Obstacles and Your Goal(s)

Obstacles will make you become a stronger person. Find a way to work through these obstacles and come up with new ways to make reaching your goal easier.

Finish what you started

Accomplishing a goal you set is never a easy process. It takes a lot of hard work and determination. However, you can never give up because a person has very few to none opportunities to accomplish a goal. Do not take failure as a discouragement. Take failure as a way to become a stronger person.

Motivation: Finish What You Started

by Bonnie Pfiester

Quote of the Day: Commitment is finishing what you started even when you don’t feel like doing it anymore.”

Scripture of the Day: “Now finish what you began, so that your eagerness to do so may be matched by your eagerness to complete it.” 2 Corinthians 8:11

When we start something new, a diet, a workout, a way of life, a new relationship, etc. – they all have an excitement about them when you first start. The problem is that exciting newness will fade.

How necessary is a commitment on your first day of marriage, or first week, first month, first year? But how much more necessary is that commitment in year 5, 10, 15 and 20?

We wouldn’t need to make a commitment if it were easy. We make commitments because we know they will be hard. We know we will lose the excitement and motivation that got us started. That’s why we make a commitment to our spouse. We make that commitment to give them security that we will stay even when we don’t feel like it. That is the same type of commitment required for fitness – and that commitment should give us the security that we will get the results if we stick with it. We don’t have to feel like working out or feel like eating clean to get results. As long as we stay committed you will finish what you started.

Pfiester, Bonnie. "30 Days of Motivation: Finish What You Started." Http://pfitblog.com/. Pfit, n.d. Web

Failure

In order to succeed in life, we must learn what to do and not to do. This comes from experiencing failure. If we do not fail, their is no process where you cannot learn and become better at what you do wanting to accomplish your goal. To reach and accomplish your goal, you are going to face obstacles on your journey.

The Elephant Rope

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”

The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they couldn’t, they were stuck right where they were.

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?

Failure is part of learning; we should never give up the struggle in life.

"5 Motivational and Inspiring Short Stories." Http://www.livin3.com/. N.p., n.d. Web.

Lowell Kelly- Gamble FY-101-BM04 First Year Seminar Professor Greason

Ten Motivational Books of All Time

10. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

While he gets a bit preachy sometimes, Stephen Covey's road map for living doesn't just help you develop better habits. It also convinces you that acquiring them will make you a better person.

Best quote: "Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny."

9. How to Win Friends & Influence People

Prior to Dale Carnegie's classic, mixing business relationships with personal relationships was considered a bit underhanded, like nepotism. After Carnegie, business relationships and personal relationships were seen not just as compatible, but as absolutely inseparable.

Best quote: "The unvarnished truth is that almost all the people you meet feel themselves superior to you in some way, and a sure way to their hearts is to let them realize in some subtle way that you recognize their importance, and recognize it sincerely."

8. Think and Grow Rich

Napoleon Hill interviewed "40 millionaires" to discover the common thought processes and behaviors that had led to their success. His study of these "best practices" was revolutionary in a world where it was largely assumed that great wealth resulted from a combination of greed and luck.

Best quote: "All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination. Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth."

7. Awaken the Giant Within

Anthony Robbins is unlike most motivational writers in two ways. First, he treats training the mind and body as a technological challenge rather than moral imperative. Second, he somehow manages to be both an inspirational role model and the most annoying guy on the planet.

Best quote: "If you can't, you must. If you must, you can."

6. As a Man Thinketh

Motivational books are usually about taking immediate action. By contrast, this 1902 classic by James Allen is a bit more, well, thoughtful. It explains how your thoughts mold your personality, and how that personality drives you to take action and determines the type of action you'll take.

Best quote: "The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers."

5. The Greatest Salesman in the World

Far more than just a sales book, Og Mandino's faux-biblical parable encourages you to live your life to the fullest by believing in yourself and your ability to help others. Required reading for anybody who sells. Which is just about everybody.

Best quote: "I will live this day as if it is my last. This day is all I have and these hours are now my eternity. I greet this sunrise with cries of joy as a prisoner who is reprieved from death. I lift mine arms with thanks for this priceless gift of a new day."

4. Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

A big part of motivation is clearing your mind of the clutter that weighs it down. Richard Carlson helps you differentiate between what's really important--and deserving of your attention--and what's just "noise in the system."

Best quote: "Stress is nothing more than a socially acceptable form of mental illness."

3. Drive

Motivation comes from the judicious use of carrots and sticks, right? Not so, says author Daniel Pink. His book illustrates the fact that motivation comes from many sources and that, at the highest level of performance, motivation come from your deepest and most profound sense of who you are and want to be.

Best quote: "For artists, scientists, inventors, schoolchildren, and the rest of us, intrinsic motivation--the drive to do something because it is interesting, challenging, and absorbing--is essential for high levels of creativity."

2. The Power of Positive Thinking

When it was first published, both psychologists and theologians attacked this book as heretical, and accused author Norman Vincent Peale of being a crank. Today, science has verified the book's basic concept--that being optimistic makes you healthier and happier and thus more likely to succeed.

Best quote: "Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all."

James, Geoffrey. "Top 10 Motivational Books of All Time." Http://www.inc.com/. Sales Source Newsletter, 22 Mar. 2013.

Sometimes you will have good days and bad days. This is all part of life. No matter how hard it is, always take time to think to yourself the positive. A negative mindset will force you to doubt yourself. As Lee Rubin states in his book, Win, it is about the game of life. During any game you play whether it is a sport or just one of those general games for fun, you are going to have ups and downs. However, thinking positively and never giving up will improve and enhance your chances of success. In order to be successful in the game of life, it is never going to be easy and when times get harder, always think positively.

Colonel (Harland) Sanders

Colonel Harland Sanders was fired from a variety of jobs throughout his career before he first started cooking chicken in his roadside Shell Service Station in 1930, when he was 40 years old, during the Great Depression. His gas station didn’t actually have a restaurant, so he served diners in his attached personal living quarters.

Over the next 10 years, he perfected his “Secret Recipe” and pressure fryer cooking method for his famous fried chicken and moved onto bigger locations. His chicken was even praised in the media by food critic Duncan Hines (yes, that Duncan Hines). However, as the interstate came through the Kentucky town where the Colonel’s restaurant was located in the 1950s, it took away important road traffic, and the Colonel was forced to close his business ,essentially broke. Worried about how he was going to survive off his meager $105 monthly pension check, he set out to find restaurants who would franchise his secret recipe—he wanted a nickel for each piece of chicken sold. He drove around, sleeping in his car, and was rejected more than 1,000 times before finally finding his first partner.

In order to reach your goal it is a process. You need to take one step at a time, because you do not want to rush a step and resulting in fail. Whenever, we seem to rush thins, we do not have a well finished product. As it mentions in the article, the Colonel did start out having a KFC Restaurant. He had to start out selling random dinners at a gas station.

Scottenburg, Erin. "9 Famous People Who Will Inspire You to Never Give Up." Https://www.themuse.com/. LearnVest, n.d. Web.

Michael Feiner: The Law of Trust

To be successful, you have to make wise decisions. What you decide to do comes from your trust. No one can make decisions for you. You have to be able to trust a decision that will benefit you not just now, but later in the future. It is important to trust your decisions that it becomes comfortable and becomes something naturally. Trust also helps you develop a strong self esteem.

Commit to investing the time and energy necessary to master your craft. The road to success may not be exciting, but it certainly is effective.

Rubin, Lee. “Vision & Goals: Not Exciting, but Effective Win: Simple Insights to Help You Win the Game of Life. Manalapan: Peppermint Candy, 2011

Being successful of reaching your goal is something that is not going to happen in a day and/or overnight. It takes time and consistency. You always want to stay focus on your goal, because anytime you lose track is time you waste that can help generate your success. Keeping consistency allows you to perfect your skill and is a stepping stone of you improving toward your goal.

Find a way to enrich the lives of others. You will receive more from the experience than you give!

Rubin, Lee. "Leadership & Team Building: Giving Back Win: Simple Insights to Help You Win the Game of Life. Manalapan: Peppermint Candy, 2011

It is always important to do good things for others. I was always taught if you do good things for others, good things will come back to you. Most importantly, it displays your character and the type of person you are. When you help others, it shows that you want others to gain and get something out of your success.

Real winners don’t give up!

This is a true story of a young woman who went through the most gruesome fire. When you read her story, you’ll realize that your trials are absolutely nothing compared to what this young girl went through.

It was September 25, 2000. Maricel Apatan was an 11-year old girl in Zamboanga. On that day, this little girl went with her uncle to draw water.

Along the way, four men met them. They were carrying long knives. They told her uncle to face down on the ground, and they hacked him on the neck and killed him.

Maricel was in total shock, especially that the men were their neighbors. She tried to escape, but the men ran after her.

She cried, “Kuya, ‘wag po, ‘wag n’yo akong tagain! Maawa po kayo sa akin!” (“Don’t kill me! Have mercy on me!”)

But they weren’t listening. With a long knife, a man slashed her on the neck too.

Maricel fell to the ground and lost consciousness.

When she woke up, she saw a lot of blood. She also saw the feet of the men around her, but she pretended to be dead.

When they walked away, Maricel ran back home. But along the way, she saw that both her hands were falling off. Because the men hacked them too. She cried but she kept running.

Sometimes, she would faint and fall to the ground. But she’d regain consciousness and run again.

When she was near her home, Maricel called her mother.

Upon seeing her daughter, her mother screamed in terror. She wrapped her bloodied child in a blanket and carried her to the hospital.

Here was the problem: From her house to the highway, it was a 12-kilometer walk. It took them 4 hours just to reach the highway.

When they arrived in the hospital, the doctors thought Maricel was going to die. But for 5 hours, they operated on her. It took 25 stitches to stitch together the long knife wound in her neck and back.

Maricel barely survived. And she lost both of her hands.

Ironically, the next day was Maricel’s birthday. She was 12 years old.

But tragedy didn’t end there. When they went home, they saw their home was gone. It was ransacked and burned down by the goons.

Being very poor, Maricel’s family also didn’t have P50,000 for their hospital bills.

But God sent many angels along the way to help them.

Archbishop Antonio Ledesma, a distant relative, paid for hospital bills and helped them bring the criminals to court. They were sentenced to prison.

Today, she’s staying with the nuns at Regina Rosarii with Sr. Eppie Brasil, O.P.

But this is the incredible miracle. Instead of staying down, Maricel kept running.

Instead of cursing God why she had no hands, she now uses her wrists in incredible ways that will boggle your mind.

Maricel Apatan

Maricel was cited as the most industrious, best in computer, and most courteous in the School for Crippled Children.

In 2008, she graduated from a course in Hotel and Restaurant Management. She even received a Gold medal for Arts and Crafts.

In 2011, she finished her education to be a chef. Yes, a Chef without hands.

Nothing can stop this young lady from reaching her dreams.

Real Winners Don’t Give Up!

More images about Maricel Apatan:

Stephen. "True Story: Real Winners Don’t Give Up!" Http://academictips.org/. N.p., 07 June 2012

You should never give up because you never know what the future holds. Always keep your head held high.

...Lee’s mother became unexpectedly pregnant while married to a disabled man. Doctors told her that because of a medication she had been taking her child would not be normal. She elected to continue with the pregnancy and in 1985 in Seoul, South Korea, little Hee Ah Lee was born with only two fingers on each hand, disfigurement of her legs, and slight brain injury...

Just because you are not perfect as other people, does not mean you cannot make an impact in society. Hee Ah Lee did not allow a major obstacle to stop her from doing what she enjoyed. She believes in herself and always wants to work hard to become better at what she does.

"It is never too late to become what you could have been".

- George Elliot

So take the first step. Before you know it, you will be counting the miles on your extraodinary journey.

Lee Rubin

Rubin, Lee. "Vision & Goals: Just One Step." Win: Simple Insights to Help You Win the Game of Life. Manalapan: Peppermint Candy, 2011

Michael Feiner: The Law of Feedback

A majority of the your going to need advice to achieve success. Even if you do become successful and reach your goal, it is always still valuable to listen to advice. Sometimes when we do not listen to other peoples advice we may perform good, but if we listened we may be could have done better. It is important to listen to advice to get a view point of different angles from which you did not think of yourself.

There are new things waiting to come into your life. Clear out some of the clutter in order to make room for new.

Lee Rubin

Rubin, Lee. "Adversity & Change: Make Room for the New." Win: Simple Insights to Help You Win the Game of Life: Manalapan: Peppermint Candy, 2011

You always have to be ready for success. When you are hard worker and always humble, their is a high opportunity that great things will come your way. In order for opportunities to come your way, you want to block out the negative influences that is preventing you from reaching your goals.

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