10 Ways To Reach Your Goals

This article is to inform young adults of effective ways to reach any goal that they may have.

1. Keep A Close Circle

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Many people think that having a hundred friends means that you are successful. Well those people are wrong. The more friends you have the more likely it is for you the have a snake in the group. By keeping your circle close it means that the people who you are friends with really do have your back no matter what. This also shows that your friends support your goal and want to help you reach it no matter what it takes. From my own personal experience I have put all my trust in someone and by doing that it ended up hurting me. Not everyone who says they are your friend truly are. Some people act like your friend so they can try and get ahead of you in life. This is why you always keep your circle close.

2. Stay Focused

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Stay focused. Those two words we have heard a million times; either in the classroom, on a playing field, or even a job. The truth behind these words is that by staying focused you have a better chance of actually reaching your goals. At any time a distraction can happen. Now I am not saying to not out out and have fun with your friends, what I am saying is to do it in moderation. Staying focused is more than just not going out. Staying focused means that you do not listen to the person who thinks that just scraping by is good enough. Staying focused is going to bed at 10 instead of midnight on a school night. Staying focused is not putting off your math homework until the hour before its due. You can stay focused and still have fun. I mean come on we are all human, we all need some fun in our lives.

3. Work for Everything

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Let's be honest, nothing in life is free. Nothing is going to be handed to you on a silver platter. The cold reality is that you are going to have to work hard for everything you want in life. Working for a goal is the same way. Say you want to be a doctor. To be a doctor you have to do well in high school so you can get into a good college. Once you are in a good college you have to do well in all of your classes and study hard for your MCAT. This means not a lot of parties and a lot of all nighters spent studying for that big test you have tomorrow. Once you do well on your MCAT and you are accepted to med school you have more studying until you graduate. Once you graduate from med school you must then work and an intern and take more tests and deal with real live situations that are not in the class room or a book. Then after a lot of work you finally get to become an actual doctor. Now that a lot of work and none of that is going to be handed to you. That all takes hard work and that is what every goal takes, a lot of hard work.

4. Hold Yourself Accountable

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This has to be the most import step of all. It is very easy for people to lie to themselves so they feel better. This is where you go wrong. That is not accountability. Accountability is when you tell yourself to go run two miles because you are suppose to and you do it. Accountability is not only holding yourself to higher expectations but also yourself. By being accountable to yourself shows your teammates or people you work with that you want to be there and that you are willing to work hard.

5. Stay Humble

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Staying humble is easier said than done if were being honest. Everyone wants to brag and say how good they are and how successful they are at the moment. By staying humble you eliminate people being able to talk bad about you. This is a major thing when you want a potential boss or coach asking people about your personality. Staying humble shows that you will not cause a scene when something does not go your way. By staying humble it shows the people around you that you are not self centered; which is a good thing because no one wants to work with an air head.

6. Make sure your goal is always in sight

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This step is pretty important. If you do not see your goal how are you suppose to achieve it? The answer is simple, you can't. Your goal always needs to be present and always on your mind. You should be caught day dreaming about your goal because you are just quit that obsessed. Your goal should be the single most important thing to you. Everyone knows the saying, "Out of sight out of mind." This saying is the truth. If you aren't thinking about your goal it is very easy to forget. Say your trying to lose ten pounds Well if this goes out of your head and you keep eating whatever you want and are doing no extra exercise then you aren't going to get the results you want. You forgot about your goal, which means it was out of sight out of mind.

7. Believe in Yourself

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Believe in yourself. We have al been told this since we were little. Little did we know that our parents were giving us very important advice. Not everyone is going to believe in you thats just the cold hard truth. The only person who will believe in you a 100% of the time is you. You are the only one who will always have your back and who will always be there for you. By believing in yourself you give yourself your own personal cheerleader who is always there for you. "You can do anything you put your mind to if you just believe." This quote is the truest quote that there is. If you don't believe you can run two miles then you won't be able to run two miles. Your mind is the most powerful tool that you possess. You can do anything if you just believe.

8. Take Advice

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Advice. We're all given it whether we want it or not. Sometimes we just want ti be stubborn and not take the good advice we are offered, when in reality we should take it. Now some advice is just not worth taking. When you choose to not take someones advice, still listen to them and be respectful. This helps to make you look like a better person. When you are offered good advice take it and try to make it apply in your life, because believe it or not you are offered more good advice than you are offered bad advice. The way you apply the advice and listen to the advice it makes you look like more of an adult and a more respectable person. This goes along way in life and you always want people to see you in a good light.

9. Plan for the Worst Hope for the Best

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By planning for the work you are prepared for anything that can happen. Lets be honest, nothing goes perfectly according to plan without anything going wrong. In reality something is always going to go wrong no mater how hard we try to be perfect. By hoping for the best this helps us stay positive in a world where anything and everything can and will go wrong. Hoping for the best also makes you see that there is good and that you can reach your goal and this helps you keep hope.

10. Dreaming is Believing

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Always dream big. No matter what people tel you keep on dreaming. You can do anything you set your mind to. By dreaming you are allowing yourself to be anything you want and more. Dreaming also helps you to see what your goal would look like if it went according to plan with no mess ups and everything was perfect. Dreaming is also good for the mind because it lets you relax and see what your life could be like.