We all know the importance of having our goals well defined and most are clear that the means to achieve them is the Action Plan, but few understand the counterbalancing guidelines that we must print to such planning. If you want to achieve your goals but do not know how to level the subtle distinctions that human beings stamp on their actions, take these four points into account when designing your definitive action strategy.
It is genuine to say that the goal is the end of various actions to be carried out. And it is quite clear that these actions must be planned to achieve that goal more efficiently and quickly. What is not so evident is the management of the balance between the following variables:
Counterweight between ambition and realism:
We must put our heads in the stars, dream, vision. Ambitioning is highly positive because it challenges us, demands us, shows us how far we can go. Even if we do not reach the highest point of the summit, we will surely climb much more than we originally thought. It is important to push ourselves to the maximum to know how far we can really go.
However, it is convenient to be clear that it helps a lot in the execution of the plan, to be realistic and consider how far we estimate to go to reach our goal. Without getting anxious about the results, we must develop a planning that we can fulfill and that is not a burden of impossible expectations, otherwise, we will only find frustration when things do not work out.
And of course, an ambitious and realistic being is difficult to find.
Counterweight between consistency and flexibility:
On the one hand, every good plan is framed in time, and on the other, the calendar activates our anxiety to see the goal achieved. It is there where a regulator called constancy operates: it keeps our purpose intact, solidifies our will and subdues despair.
That same perseverance, however, can stiffen the way, it can turn it into a heavy, unsustainable burden. For this reason, when planning it is important that we make our actions more flexible, that we take into account avoiding overweight and that we design the plan avoiding demands that may lead us to excuses for abandonment.
And of course, that constancy and flexibility converge in a being is a very rare occurrence.
Counterweight between self-motivation and prudence:
When we start with a plan and have our goal in mind, we are motivated and excited to do it. It is normal that with the passing of the days that motivation decreases a little. To counteract this normality, it is vital to find self-motivating mechanisms that reconnect you with the benefits of the goal and remind you of how full you feel by the mere fact of moving towards achievement.
But you have to be careful not to turn the road into a flowery Easter or a self-motivation plan instead of a plan to achieve your dream. It is necessary to be prudent in introducing activities that stimulate you but that are not excessive in quantity, excessive in intensity, and above all, are really relevant to the reality of your being.
And of course, a self-motivated and prudent personality is a rare skill.
Counterweight between the positive and the focus:
If you set out to achieve a goal it is because you really want it, and you have a large part of the credit for just trying, so from now on, congratulate yourself for wanting to achieve new goals, praise yourself with your decision to improve, glorify yourself with your purpose to grow. Keep your tank full of positive mentality, your eyes, your expressions, your corporality, your feelings, in short, your whole being must be filled with a positive charge that nothing and no one can break.
Now, possibly one of the few problems of the positive mind is its tendency to pull us out of focus when we are in an extreme state of positive elevation. The world is so beautiful that we risk losing connection with reality, we transport ourselves to an almost magical planet that can take us away from our goals, by putting aside the initially desired achievement.
And of course, a positive and focused mind is a rare virtue.
In conclusion, if we do not know how to distinguish the small subtleties that make certain characteristics of the being differentiate and complement each other at the same time, we could not only capsize in the stroke of achievement, but sadly we would do so when being very close to the shore, and the worst thing is that we would never understand why.
In other words, we must become aware that success is a dance in which the harmony of the steps in pairs marks the choreography of the triumph, in which ambition and realism flow peacefully. In which consistency and flexibility are warmly matched. In which self-motivation and focus flow in healthy rejoicing. And in which positivism and prudence sail smoothly.
"A goal without a plan is simply a wish" L. Elder.
