Actualize Your Primary Goal

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From: Mark S.Chatterton [mark@chattertonworld.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2008 1:15 PM
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Subject: Actualize Your Primary Goal

Actualize Your Primary Goal
by Mark Victor Hansen

The word 'actualize' means to make actual, to make real. And to see something actualized requires action. As much as we'd like our dreams to be realized through virtually no effort at all on our part, that's not the way it works. (And we wouldn't appreciate it as much if we did nothing to achieve our goals). To have everything we want in life we have to decide what it is that we really want, make a plan and take action.

To transform our goals from lofty dreams to true-blue reality means that we first have to decide on a primary goal. We can have as many things as we want, make our goal list as long as we desire, but to make our goals 'actual' we must concentrate on them one at a time.

Once we have our primary goal, the one we want more than anything else; then we have to create a plan. That plan may include researching our goal, looking for classes to take, visiting a foreign country or asking about an internship with a company or individual. Creating a goal-achieving plan is like planning a road trip. If you know your eventual destination, you just need to mark a route to get there. It may take a while to get where you want to go, or you could arrive there next week. It all depends on what your number one goal is.

The last step is to follow the plan you've created by taking action! If you have 40 steps in your plan, then decide that you're going to accomplish one or two steps a day until you have what you want. It sounds simple, I know. And it is simple. The hardest part of having what you want is figuring out what you want and deciding your going to do it. The rest is just taking action.

To overcome your fear of goal setting, just take action.

Mark Victor Hansen