Don't Change Your Goals, Change Your Approach

" If the wind will not serve, take to the oars."

- Latin Proverb

Just as there are common steps that people take to achieve success, there are common steps people take to fail.  One very common problem is that when a difficulty arises that you did not expect; and you really do not know how to overcome or change it, we give up on the goal all together.  Giving up on our goal or quitting is never an option.  You can keep the goal, no matter what the difficulty is, just change the approach you take to get it.

                I know a man who had a goal he had been working toward for years.  It took a lot of his time and energy to keep moving forward.  He suddenly found himself faced with a physical challenge he did not expect.  It put a roadblock on some of the things he was doing and there was just nothing he could do to change it.  Rather than give up, he spent some of his recuperating time thinking of new ways of doing the things he did before.  There were a few things he had to get others to do for him, but he really never lost a beat, he just did thing different.  Today he is enjoying doing the things he loves.

                I know another man who was very talented and successful when he too faced a physical challenge.  He was not willing to change or reinvent himself and just sat around and grew old and sick very quickly.  Which of these two men would you be?  Will you give up and fall aside or will you just find another path?

                Author and success coach, Tony Robbins said, "Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach."  That means that once you have made the decision to achieve the goal, it is done.  You do not make that decision again and again each time something in life changes.  However, your approach to achieving that goal is flexible and can be changed many time.  We do not know what tomorrow brings and what challenges we will face.  It is like a pilot flying from New York to LA, he has a course set but will be off course many times due to weather, other planes, winds or whatever.  He still makes it to LA.  Why?  Because he never change the destination, only the course to get there.

                Hold on to your goals and never give them up.  Be thinking of all you can do and how you can do it.  When you can, keep on course; when life happens, adjust and keep moving forward.  You will make it to the destination all the same.

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