How many times have we started a new thing and then left it with the first obstacle we faced ? How many times have we created new year resolutions only to be broken by the evening of the first day of the year? We have even gone to the extent of saying to ourselves that resolutions are meant only to be broken. How many times have we decided that we would exercise from the next day, and realise that in the very first or second day, either we are not feeling well or it is raining outside or some one in the family is sick and therefore you cannot go today.
You and me and all of us face these situations almost everyday in life. Then why is that a very limited set of people only (less than 1% of us) are able to achieve what we thought of achieving and the remaining majority just resets the goals and try to start all over again waiting for the ideal situation or a circumstance or an auspicious occasion to get started. My experience says that all this is because of the absence of Step-1 in all our goals. When we create any goal, we always start from Step-2 and just skip Step-1 assuming that either it is not important or is a waste of time considering the fact that you want to achieve your goals rather quickly. It is just like saying that i do not want to waste time building the foundation of my house because i am in a hurry to finish the construction of my house.
What happens to the house which is started in a hurry without building a foundation (that is from Step-2)? With the first rain or the first storm, you will see the result. It is the same way in our lives. Lot of people come and ask me to tell the steps for financial freedom. They keep asking me why i am i not telling them all the steps needed to achieve financial freedom so that they can just follow the steps in order and get financially free rather fast. My response to them is that achieving financial freedom is just like constructing your own house. While i understand that you are in a hurry to achieve financial freedom, you cannot skip Step # 1 of laying a strong foundation. In any of our life goals whether the goal is to be financially free or the goal is to reduce your weight by 10 pounds in a month or the goal is to leave cigarette smoking, this first step is the key. The first step is to lay a very strong foundation of your dream as to why do you want to achieve the goal, think about it day and night, think about how would you feel when you achieve your goal, picturise it, document it, keep dreaming about it...make it strong, live with it, sleep with it, make it so indispensable for you that no person, no situation can take it away from you.
Take your own time in building your dreams for whatever you want to achieve because the moment you step out to Step-2, GOD will come and take your unit test. HE would want to test whether you are good enough to achieve your goal or not. HE will throw situations, people at you and will try to assess the strength of your decision which is primarily driven by the strength of your dreams. If you are passionate about your goals, if you had spent enough time dreaming about it and making it strong enough, you would be able to pass this unit test and move on towards your goals. On the other hand, if you had directly moved on to Step -2 which is execution, then the chances are that you might fail in those tests and might think to start it all over again very soon. So, when people ask me the next steps on financial freedom, i have to go back and ask them as to why they want to be financially free, what all they are ready to sacrifice to achieve their own personal freedom, for freedom needs sacrifice - it will not come free.I have realized that achieving financial freedom has been more a wish rather than a dream with most of us and that explains why most cannot get to the end of their goals.
Well, no one stops us from trying once again but the worst part with this starting over all again is that for most of us it becomes a "habit" to leave a goal in between and start all over. We have done it so many times that it becomes a part of our unconscious thinking and this "habit" is a recipe for disaster because this habit is then not constrained to a specific goal or a specific part of your life. This will impact your personal, financial, professional, spiritual and social life..all in equal proportions. We are all under the impression that we have unlimited time in our lives, and we can continue to retry as many times as we want. Once failing in a Unit Test becomes a habit, then it is very difficult to come out of it..
So get set with your goal, spend enough time in dreaming about it, thinking about it, writing and reading about it, discussing and sharing about it. Do it with yourself and even with your close friends and family, spend time making it very very strong. Once you are done with this, ask yourself whether you are ready for the Unit Test that GOD will take immediately as you step over to the next step of execution. If your inner voice says YES, then go ahead..no one can stop you know, for once you have cleared the GODs unit test, you are invincible !!
Cheers
Manoj Arora
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