Achieving your goal
How many of us seem to spend our whole life searching for goals to achieve? We create a never ending lists in our minds of all sorts wants, likes dislikes but generally they change from day to day and as quickly they pop into our heads by the following day they are not important anymore. We see things on the TV, hear gossip, become influenced by our friends or dont like what we see in the mirror and we vow to ourselves , "that is it, i'm going for it! If someone else can do it then so can I!"
Oh, how we fool ourselves.
Busy working lives, demands of the family and yes the worst excuse of all- I just can't be bothered, i'm too tired.
There is always something else to carry us away, generally in the direction that we don't want to go.
What i'm trying to say is that goals are hard to achieve. Finding motivation and keeping it is one of the hardest things a person can do and, unfortunately, not all of us will get over the finishing line.
Up until now this has been me. Never really knowing what I want to do, jumping from career to career in the hope of finding something. What, I still don't know to this day.
Don't get me wrong I have achieved many wonderful things throughout my 46 years but never until now has something brought me so close to the feeling of what I have been searching for.
And what is that, you may ask?
Writing this book.
I set myself a goal five years ago to write a novel. It didn't come easy.
How could a thickie like me write a book? The longest pieces of writing that I wrote were the shopping lists. Yet I had this story in my head which was personal to me and I needed to put it on paper. When I did though, it took me over completely and soon I was writing non stop. It took me a year to write and a few months to play around with it until I was happy. Then I the got scared and lost confidence. Who would want to read anything that I've written, I thought to myself? Without thinking the manuscript was put away. Once more failing to cross that finishing line and achieving my goal.
It took me nearly three years to realise that writing a novel was an achievement in itself and my goal suddenly changed. Get it published and let the story be enjoyed became my next target.
I've achieved my goal and the satisfaction that I feel is wonderful. I hope that you are achieving yours.
( I'll tell you about my inspiration for the story next)
Oh, how we fool ourselves.
Busy working lives, demands of the family and yes the worst excuse of all- I just can't be bothered, i'm too tired.
There is always something else to carry us away, generally in the direction that we don't want to go.
What i'm trying to say is that goals are hard to achieve. Finding motivation and keeping it is one of the hardest things a person can do and, unfortunately, not all of us will get over the finishing line.
Up until now this has been me. Never really knowing what I want to do, jumping from career to career in the hope of finding something. What, I still don't know to this day.
Don't get me wrong I have achieved many wonderful things throughout my 46 years but never until now has something brought me so close to the feeling of what I have been searching for.
And what is that, you may ask?
Writing this book.
I set myself a goal five years ago to write a novel. It didn't come easy.
How could a thickie like me write a book? The longest pieces of writing that I wrote were the shopping lists. Yet I had this story in my head which was personal to me and I needed to put it on paper. When I did though, it took me over completely and soon I was writing non stop. It took me a year to write and a few months to play around with it until I was happy. Then I the got scared and lost confidence. Who would want to read anything that I've written, I thought to myself? Without thinking the manuscript was put away. Once more failing to cross that finishing line and achieving my goal.
It took me nearly three years to realise that writing a novel was an achievement in itself and my goal suddenly changed. Get it published and let the story be enjoyed became my next target.
I've achieved my goal and the satisfaction that I feel is wonderful. I hope that you are achieving yours.
( I'll tell you about my inspiration for the story next)
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