Just For Results

Do you have long term projects with short term expectations? If you do, that’s a sure trail to disappointment and failure.

Lifestyle goals like exercise and sensible diet have to become habits so as to work. A career change such as a new job or learning how to earn money at home also takes time and planning, and it does not happen overnight.

Your world has shifted. There’s voice mail, email, pagers, and faxes that have made a waiting period unsatisfactory and virtually obsolete. With info immediately available, we expect relations and goal achievement to be done the same. As you read this you know that it’s irrational to expect that, don’t you? We have been controlled by advertisers to believe that we deserve fast gratification, and that it’s readily and effortlessly available!

When you want to train a puppy dog, you know that it should take time and consistent re-strengthening. You’re ready for that, because you desire your puppy to behave in a satisfactory way. Why then, are you so patient with the puppy and so hard on yourself?

When you plant seeds in the garden, you tend them, water them, hope for daylight and nurture them. Are you nurturing yourself?

The best way to move softly and effectively towards your goals is to take a fair approach. Break your long term project goal into sub-goals. Break it into do-able, short term pieces. Today prepare the soil ; tomorrow plant the seeds.

Each action you take and each step is gratifying because you know it is contributing to the completion of your goal. You cannot rush Mother Nature with your garden, and the same is true for your goals.

This process is way more than “bloom where you are planted”, because when you are the gardener you choose what to plant and how to nurture it. Do the same for yourself, and grow yourself fantastically. Your goals will be accomplished in due time, and you will not finish up up-tight and frazzled.