The Key Missing Ingredient That Most Goal Setting Strategies Lack
Ξ January 24th, 2009 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Self-Improvement: Goal Setting |
Most goal setting strategies include laying out a written plan, determining intermediate and short term goals, and implementing changes in our daily routine that will either help us be more efficient in reaching our goals, or avoid problems that will hinder our progress.
Nevertheless, there is one key ingredient most goal setting strategies lack. And it is not about changing your outer circumstances. It is all about switching your mindset from possible failure to doubtless triumph.
You see, it’s not easy to implement changes in our lives. Before we change anything on the outside, we first have to challenge those thought patterns that are responsible for our current lifestyle in the first place.
That is why most goal setting plans fail.
Although we always start out full of enthusiasm, soon our old mindset will try to pull us back into the lifestyle it is used to. After all, you’ve been living this way for years and years. Your thought patterns will not change overnight.
But there is an extremely powerful way to change your mindset that will guarantee success. It is the Word of God—the Bible. If you are willing to commit to search for God first and leave your own agenda aside, you will obtain the success you are yearning for.
The Bible states that if you first strive for His kingdom and His way of doing things, everything else–every other area of your life–will be taken care of (Matthew
As you read God’s Word you will get to know Him better and you will start thinking like He does. And He does not speak the language of failure! God always plans for victory, no matter what. So it’s always good to flow with His program.