Getting what you really want is never the easiest thing to accomplish. If it was easy, there wouldn’t be any challenge in life left.
There is misunderstanding for many people that getting what they really want is impossible. Sometimes is almost impossible… or out of their lifetimes reach.
But, that doesn’t necessary has to be true… because if you really want it, you will put a lot of effort to get it.
The great misconception is that getting from point A (where you are) to point Z (where you want to be) is too overwhelming… because there are 24 other letters (obstacles) in between.
This is the same as the old adage on how you can eat a whole elephant… one bite at a time. This makes sense — but, people forget that you just can’t bite in one direction. The elephant is big with different parts. It requires many bites, in many different directions and with different biting techniques. Also, there must be some shifting around to accomplish this goal.
You can make things happen. Anything you do will work… as long as you want to put the effort to make it happen.
The point is… if you go want to get to Z from A, you must work on B before working on C, etc, etc. It can take a few minutes or a few years to get to the end depending on the difficulty of what is to achieve.
There is no secret. The basics to successfully achieve what you really want are to analyze it, break it down, plan it and re-adjust.
The first thing is to analyze where you are, where you want to be and everything in between. If you want to be able to run a marathon and are not a runner, you will find that you need endurance, energy, discipline, healthy body and strong legs to run for several hours for 26.2 miles.
Then, take your whole analysis and break it into manageable tasks and goals. It doesn’t matter how big the goal. It has to be manageable. Going to the marathon example, it’s very unlikely you can start the next day and run 26.2 miles to train. You will need to break your goals into manageable milestones. For example, you might want to run one mile today and every other day for the first week. Then, increase it to 2 miles in the second week. Then, 5 miles in the fourth week. Maybe 10 miles in the eighth week. And so forth.
You will want to put all the milestone into a plan. When will you be training and where. What would happen if the weather is bad. How you are going to work the schedule around your family or poker night. Map everything out until the end.
Lastly, you need to be able to re-adjust. Let’s say that at the second week, you can’t run 2 miles. You should re-adjust your plan. Why? Because you just found out that your other milestones will not be met if this is not met. Again, it could be the other way. You might be running 3 miles by the second week. You should re-adjust your plan since you might be finishing earlier than anticipated.