Difficult Decisions & Personal Goals
Whenever we make the highly personal decision, after great consideration, to pursue a new particular Career Path or a new exciting Personal Goal, we will shortly thereafter come up against, face-to-face, and inevitably, various Roadblocks To Success that will define us when we look back many years from now.
How successful we are overcoming these roadblocks along each journey we embark on will either make us; or break us. Bring us closer to success and to achieving our personal goals; or set us back, slowing us down, giving us reason to pause, and instilling the powerful and nagging seed of doubt into our minds. We have to tend to these seeds before they firmly take hold; we have to take positive steps so that they never have the opportunity to grow and kill our dreams. We have to replace them with focused action that will move us forward. One step at a time.
What To Do?
When our New Journey began we were enthusiastic; energized; optimistic. Nothing could stop us. Nothing would stand in our way.
Then, without proper notice or warning, a Roadblock arose out on nowhere which now stands as a challenge to be dealt with and between us and our Goals and Dreams:
- A sudden personal illness
- Suddenly, a family member or close friend is struck with a sudden serious illness that weighs heavily on you
- You are layed off from your job
- You incur a sudden and significant personal expense which throws a wrench into all of the careful planning, forecasting, and budgeting that you worked on so diligently in your planning phase
- You have a very bad experience which has badly weakened your confidence and is causing you to doubt your ability to continue on toward your goals
This list could go on and on. The examples of potential roadblocks and challenges that we can all encounter along the way are endless.
The Question is: How Will We React and What Will We Do?
Our mettle will be tested. Our resolve will be measured. Our commitment, or lack thereof, will be thrust to the forefront and will be the critical factor that will impact our ultimate success or failure more than any other.
Several all-important questions will have to be pondered and then need to be answered on a deeply personal level:
- How badly do we want it?
- How much passion do we have to give us sufficient strength to overcome each roadblock we discuss that will stand, firmly, between us and our Goals?
- Why are we doing what we are doing? What were the original factors that resulted in our personal decision to pursue this particular path or goal?
- How will our lives ultimately change for the better if the goal or objective we have set is successfully achieved in the future? What benefits can we predict? Will the quality of our lives improve? Will we be happier? Will the quality of our loved ones improve? Will they be happier?
- Finally: Which is stronger and a more formidable force: us or the Roadblock that stands before us? Which has more resolve to win?
Success
There is a reason many people make personal decisions to not pursue their goals and dreams!
They know that achieving their Goals and Great Success would not be easy. Would not be without sacrifice. Hard work. Commitment. Stress. And....Roadblocks. Numerous; and inevitable.
We have chosen an alternate path. The only path that could possibly result in our achieving success and in reaching the personal goals we have set: we chose to commence pursuit of our goals and dreams. We chose to take a chance. A risk. To not be complecent.
Now.....wherever we all are along our personal journeys, we need to stand firm; persevere; and do whatever it takes to stay on mission and moving forward.
We have to muster up every bit of energy and creativity, utilize all of our life experience, and surround ourselves with a Team of Positive Supporters. We have to learn from those who have gone before us. Those who have, before they reached their Goals and Great Success, come face-to-face with their own personal Roadblocks to Success. They choose to not back down. They found a way. They made it.
So can we.....one positive step and interaction at a time.
Success Awaits.
