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To start achieving your goals is always the most difficult part of anything.  As science puts it, it takes more energy to start the ball rolling than to keep it rolling.  Crafting the plan to achieve your goals is easy, but actually doing it to gear you towards achieving your goal is the difficult part.  It takes courage to bat in the motivation-momentum lock strategy to do the trick.  Take your first step courageously, out of your comfort zone and move forward.  This is more tedious and you sometimes make mistakes, however hard you try to avoid them.  The rule of thumb is stay motivated and key in the perfect timing.

Why the first step is always so difficult

It is normal for people to give up during this most difficult period and tell themselves they will try to do it again some other time.  And there are even those people who feel helpless after getting frustrated and therefore, resign to a mediocre way of life, forgetting to believe in themselves.  When this happens to you, do a positive self-talk.

Really, these pessimisms are not necessary.  Failure doesn’t mean you have to stop.  It is only telling you to get up, move on, try again, and do more.  Find that perfect momentum.  Success becomes sweeter for those who gained the right momentum; when after failing, instead of quitting, they immediately get up, empower their previous struggles, push hard, and harder, and harder until it becomes easier and easier already.  That is momentum.  And momentum combined with a strong sense of motivation is the true key to success.  Through this, achieving your goals becomes fun.

Never quit

So, never be a quitter.  Get motivation and momentum working for you.  Persist to succeed and take bigger risks than you have in the past.  Don’t major in baby steps because they will delay you in achieving your goals in life.  Why fly like a barnyard hen when you can always soar like an eagle? Always be on a motivated mode.  Couple it with the perfect timing and voila! You have achieved your goal.

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A previous setback is one of the strongest reasons that hold a person back from doing a task.  Perhaps, most of us can relate with this behavior.  Failure can make us feel that we are not good enough for anything.  Nobody likes this feeling.  In the first place, nobody wants to fail.

There are many definitions of failure.  However, all of these definitions have a single thing in common – failure is just a perception.  It is just a thing of the mind.  Failure does not exist unless you believe that it does.

Overcoming failure if it exists in the mind

It is you alone who can say if you have failed or not; likewise, it is only you who will be able to get you out of that situation.  If you think that there is no way that you can recover, then you are right.  If you believe that you are a failure, then you are one.  Once you quit trying, that is the time that you have failed.

Overcoming failure by moving on

By continuing the fight, by struggling even if the pain becomes difficult to bear, and by taking a step to move closer to your goals, you are getting rid of failure.  In fact, as long as you continue doing these, you are not a failure.  The road may not be clear at times and you might not get positive results immediately, but never give up.

How to overcome failure

1.  Make a commitment.  Sometimes, there is an advantage to burning one’s bridges.  If there is no turning back, if you have no other way but forward, then you are left with no other choice but to take the first step, and then the second and the third until you reach the finish line.

2.  Don’t dwell so much on timeframes.  While it is good to include a timeline when setting your goal, you have to be flexible when it comes to unexpected circumstances involving what you need to accomplish.  Take things one step at a time and you will get to the finish line.

3.  Look at stumbling blocks as stepping-stones.  If you have stumbled once, or even several times, don’t consider these as failures.  Use these obstacles as learning points that will help you reach your goals.

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A lot of people race through their own lives looking for that one elusive thing happiness.  However, the faster one goes, the farther happiness seems to get from their hands.  What most people don’t know is that happiness is just around the corner or may have always been beside them from the start.  In today’s society, more and more people are becoming motivated for the wrong reasons and thinking that their happiness is a goal that can be reached after much hard work and suffering.  And when that goal has been reached, well, it’s on to the next bigger, prettier, and harder-to-accomplish goal before they call themselves happy.   Satisfaction may be the key to happiness, but people rarely give in to the feeling and are left scurrying faster and harder until the weariness of the chase creeps in.  What they forget though is that happiness happens when you allow it to, and yes, one can be truly happy in a myriad of ways.

If you truly want to be happy, here are three simple ways to get that warm and fuzzy feeling in your heart

1)  Slow down.

Some peole get a rush of happiness when they feel the wind in their hair, brisk walk through life, and jump over obstacles as in a race.  However, happiness doesn’t just happen when you reach the finish line.  Take time out to feel and experience the people, places, and other things in your life.  Learn how to slow down and let happiness catch up with you in the form of a book, a night out with friends, a quiet afternoon with your pet cat in your lap, or a rainy day indoors with your loved one.  It pays off to take a  break from the race for happiness to seep into your veins.

2)  Enjoy the view.

Wonder why some people still prefer going on cross-country drives instead of hopping onto a plane? They say a vacation is more memorable not because of the pile of rocks waiting for you at the end of the journey, but because of the people, places, and things that you encounter along the way.  The same goes for life and reaching that goal.  Happiness isn’t just attained when you reach the end, but it can also be seen in the twists and turns that you go through to get it.

3)  Be thankful.

Happiness comes to those who are thankful for it and all the other things one can encounter in one’s life.  Instead of building regret and resentment over challenges, be thankful that you have surpassed such and learned a lot from the experience.  Being thankful for what one has keeps one grounded, focused, and more determined to finish his or her fight.

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