A GOAL WITHOUT A PLAN IS JUST A WISH

A GOAL WITHOUT A PLAN IS JUST A WISH

Are you just wishing or do you really want to accomplish something?  If you have a goal, you have to have a plan on how to reach it.  Yes, you may stumble along the way, but then you just go back to the plan.

How many times do we all say things like, "I wish my house was paid off."  "I wish I weighed 100, 50, 25 pounds less."  "I wish I could go to college."  "I wish I had another job."  "I wish I could retire."  We all do it.  Wishing is like so many other things we do in our life.  It's a waste of our time.

Put that time to better use.  When you wish for something, decide if it is important enough to you to actually want to do it.  If it is, then set it as your goal.  Write it out!  And then set smaller goals to get you to that main goal.  It's difficult to set a goal that is in the future when you cannot see progress of smaller goals along the way.

Here is how I started saving over a decade ago.  I had no savings and had never saved a penny.  I wished I could save 10% of what I brought home.  One day I got a raise at work.  It was $6 a week.  My friend Debi said, "what are you gonna do with all that money?  But a dozen donuts?"  lol 

What I decided to do was save it.  And so I did.  Each week I would put that $6 in savings.  It grew slowly but for the first time in my life, I had a savings account.  Then I paid a credit card off.  I was paying the minimum plus the interest each month.  That gave me about $16 more each week.  I added that to the $6 and now I was saving $22 a week.

I now save more than 10% of my income.  It is a great feeling to look in my savings account and see money.  When an emergency comes up I no longer have to decide, "do I fix my car or do I pay my electric bill?" 

This process works for any goal.  I did the same procedure when I wanted to start tithing.  It worked when I started jogging.  All it takes is choosing a goal, writing it down with smaller goals, and then putting your plan in action.

Once you do that, your goal is no longer just a wish.  It's a plan that you can accomplish.

copyrighted 2014

caryn cannatella

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WISHING WILL NOT MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE!

WISHING WILL NOT MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE!

We all have wishes.  These are the things we want in our lives that can happen randomly with no effort on our part. 

You know how wishes are.  Those are the things that we want but we don’t want to work for.  I wish I was thin.  I wish I was rich.  I wish I owned a house.  I wish I had a better car.   Wishes are the lowest rung on the ladder of success.

A couple of rungs up from that are dreams.  Dreams are more active.  You think about them.  You may even visualize them.  You don’t necessarily work towards them but you can.  Dreams are lofty but still much more achievable than a wish.

Keep going up that ladder a few more steps and you will find believing.   Believing takes faith and energy.  Believing is active and you have to participate.  Some people think you can believe yourself to anything.  From my experience just believing will not make things happen.   I remember once being told, “just believe whatever it is you want!”  I tried it for a while and here is what I found out.  You can believe something all you want, like “I believe my house is clean.”  However, until you get up and put some action behind that belief, you just have empty words and a dirty house.

What really works is to have a dream and believe in that dream no matter what.  Then make a plan of action to bring your goal to fruition.  When you do this, believing becomes so important.    Especially during the times when nothing seems to be moving forward, you become frustrated and sometimes want to quit!  I have a saying that I say aloud very often:  “I see with my heart what my eyes cannot yet see.” 

I can tell you from my experience that dreaming, believing and putting an action plan in place does work.  Sometimes it works quickly.  Sometimes it takes more time.  And when you become frustrated, add a little more commitment.  When you put commitment into the mix you are telling yourself and the world, I’m here to stay.  I’m in it to win it!  I’ll never give up, no matter what my circumstances seem.

When you do these things, you will take your wish all the way up the ladder to success and over to the end of the rainbow.  What was once just a wish will become a reality.  Then you will truly see your dream become your life.  Try it!  It really does work!

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caryn cannatella

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