Today is the 26th of May, waoh, almost the end of the 5th month of the year and somehow we are into the half of the year 2015. I'd say so many people are beginning to take stock of where they are at and where they thought they would be at this point of the year. Some of us have surpassed those goals, some of us just about met those goals, some of us are a few miles off and some of us are way off.
I would like to say a big congratulations to those who have surpassed their goals, congratulations to those who just about met their goals, well done to those who are a few miles off and I’ll give a big ovation to those who are way off especially if they are still putting in the work to achieve those goals because they are resilient enough to stay with it.
The funny thing with goals sometimes is that when they are set, we only have an idea what and how we are going to go about meeting them but most of the times we do not see or know the challenges we would face in other to meet those goals.
My post today is really for those who think they have not met the goals they set out to achieve by this time this year. One of the key ways to progress further is to take a realistic, honest and critical look at the situation we find ourselves in. The question we need to ask is why did we not achieve these goals. Were the reasons within our control or out of our control? If they were within our control, how can we deal with the reasons and how can we stop them from happening again. If they are out of our control, how can we get round them, what are our alternative solutions? What can we do to get back on track? Sometimes we also need to ask ourselves if the goal we set at that time is still relevant or if we need to discard the goal and set a new one. Goals change every time. Goals change because our outlook to life changes and we either get a new perspective on things or a new revelation happens and we have to change what we want to achieve. When I started out in my career, my ultimate goal was to be a financial director of a company, to be honest that has changed, now I want to be an entrepreneur who owns many companies and I am also very interested in social entrepreneurship. My goals to achieve my maximum potential has not changed but I have discovered more about myself, I have come to understand myself better and because of that my goals have changed. This has also made 2015 goals change as well.
This year has been very busy and challenging for me but i have come to understand myself better. The truth is I have achieved more goals than i set out to achieve already but I am also far from where I wanted to be now in 2015.
Sometimes when you think you are far away from your final destination, you need to take a hard look at yourself, sometimes there are soft goals that you have achieved, I call them the softer goals. Things like discipline, resilient, metal strength, character, better judgement, all these things are very important to be able to achieve those final goals.
So we all need to look at all our goals and evaluate where we are at, what we have done wrong, what we have done right, what has worked for us and what has not worked for us and come up with a plan to move forward.
I will end with this, it does not matter how far away you think you are from achieving your goals, they are still very much achievable, you just need to re-evaluate where you are and come up with a plan to keep moving forward, you have come this far, now is not the time to give up. LGP is cheering for you.
