Embarking on the journey to becoming an achiever is a transformative process, filled with challenges, triumphs, and invaluable lessons. Let's delve into the mindset, habits, and strategies that can propel you towards achieving your goals and realizing your potential.
You become an achiever by achieving your goals
Achievers give their goals sufficient attention so as to reach, attain, or accomplish those goals.
- Non-achievers do not give enough attention to achieve their goals, and instead reach for other people’s goals without consciously making those goals their own
- An achiever must withdraw much of their attention from activities that are not directly related to achieving their goals.
Say No to Almost Everything
If you can’t make a goal your own, and you try to work on it anyway, then you’re fighting yourself
- Don’t dwell in the land of half-commitments
- Put your full attention on your own goals, including goals you’ve made your own
Put Your Goals First
Achievers don’t use their jobs or family commitments as excuses for not giving sufficient attention to their goals
- Set high-quality, holistic goals to begin with
- Deliberately put your attention on your goals – dwell on them while you’re standing in line, plan out the action steps, and visualize yourself taking them
- Clear time to work on them
The Scarcity of Attention
Attention is a limited resource. The ability to consciously direct your attention with good energy and focus is even scarcer than the time you have available each day
- How much of your attention are you giving to your achievement-oriented self?
- If you starve this part of yourself for attention, it will punish you with low motivation, low self-worth, and a general scarcity of resources
The Goal of Freedom
If lifestyle freedom is important to you, then make that your primary aim. Put your attention squarely on that goal, and obsess about it until you achieve it.
- Drop, cut, and burn whatever distracts you from it. If anything else is truly getting in your way, find a way to turn it into an advantage that increases your drive and motivation.
Directing Your Attention
Don’t let your attention float around aimlessly
- Focus your attention on something other than your goals
- Goals require significant and prolonged nurturing until they’re achieved; otherwise they die
- As you get older, keep raising your standards for what deserves your attention
