All of us have desires either positive desires or negative desires. Often it seems that we tend to yield to the negative desires rather than positive desires. Every desire has a bearing on our corresponding actions. In the mid-eighties, while pursuing my MBA program, I had this burning desire to being self-employed in spite of my MBA studies. I was getting tired of doing odd jobs through college and now an MBA program without corresponding equitable pay while being tossed around by inconsiderate bosses. The desire was so strong in me that I finally quit my last job and never looked back. When we pour our energy into positive desires, we are laying a solid foundation for getting ahead. The way forward wasn't easy but achievable. This long and craving for the possibility of getting ahead drove me to take action within the available means and resources. If I had stopped over to consider my limitations, which of course were many, I could never have gotten ahead.
Your desire must be such that you could clearly say, this is it for me.
The driving force behind positive desires depends on which group you fall into. Weigh yourself with understated groupings.
Group A- Those who have not yet begun.
1. They have no dream and don't seem to bother with accruing one
2. They have a weak dream that is not strong enough to prompt action.
1. They have no dream and don't seem to bother with accruing one
2. They have a weak dream that is not strong enough to prompt action.
Group B- Those who had begun but ran into roadblocks
1. They lose their fire
2. They run out of ways around the obstacles
3. They run into financial constraints and limited customers
1. They lose their fire
2. They run out of ways around the obstacles
3. They run into financial constraints and limited customers
Group C- Those who are making progress but have not yet achieved their goal.
1. Capitalize upon what is working
2. They enlist the help of professionals
3. Identify problem areas for retweaking
1. Capitalize upon what is working
2. They enlist the help of professionals
3. Identify problem areas for retweaking
Group D- Those who are successful and have achieved their initial goal.
1. Work to sustain the momentum
2. Leverage the success
1. Work to sustain the momentum
2. Leverage the success
• You must believe in your goal
• You must believe in yourself if you doubt your self-worth, your confidence is broken.
• You must believe in yourself if you doubt your self-worth, your confidence is broken.
The Tale
When I started out my business years ago, I had many people around me who scorned my efforts and wondered what I was really doing. With a Bachelor of Science in Management plus a minor in accounting, not only that, this time I was doing my MBA at Campbell University. They felt I was wasting my academic achievement. Within me was the urge to excel in the niche that I had chosen. I discovered four powerful was of bringing this desire int fruition. Many of my clients benefited from these principles as they applied to their goals.
When I started out my business years ago, I had many people around me who scorned my efforts and wondered what I was really doing. With a Bachelor of Science in Management plus a minor in accounting, not only that, this time I was doing my MBA at Campbell University. They felt I was wasting my academic achievement. Within me was the urge to excel in the niche that I had chosen. I discovered four powerful was of bringing this desire int fruition. Many of my clients benefited from these principles as they applied to their goals.
Four ways of Developing Positive Desires
1) Classify your desires
a. How does your desire line up with your getting ahead?
b. Is it flimsy or solid enough to make a difference?
b. Is it flimsy or solid enough to make a difference?
Once you classify your desires, they gained momentum in order of value. Many times each of us has desires that are mere fantasies and have nothing to do with moving us ahead in any positive direction. This is what I call flimsy desires, that are more distractive than productive. Classifying, therefore, helps eliminate wasteful energy, time, and resources.
2) Frame your desires into goals
a. This gives you clear mental pictures and allows you to develop a concrete plan of action.
b. Framing your desires also gives life and essence to each of your desires.
c. It serves to identify them and make them unique in the progress of getting ahead.
a. This gives you clear mental pictures and allows you to develop a concrete plan of action.
b. Framing your desires also gives life and essence to each of your desires.
c. It serves to identify them and make them unique in the progress of getting ahead.
Over the years, I have noticed that, once you're able to frame your desires into goals, they gather latent power towards execution. Any desires that have not been framed into goals remain abstract. Sometimes the bulk of these are negative desires that appeal to our emotions. So developing positive desires necessitates concrete goals.
3) Weigh your desires- now formulated goals to prioritize them
a. This allows for the best fit to be acted upon the first
b. It guides the sequence of steps and activities necessary to make progress
a. This allows for the best fit to be acted upon the first
b. It guides the sequence of steps and activities necessary to make progress
The value of each goal will enable the placement in the best to do or act upon the list. It is this that allows you to choose the rightful progress steps. Never act upon your goals without prioritizing them, because one success step begets another.
4) Act upon them in order of importance.
a. The actions help evaluate each step towards your goal. This is the bridge-building process that produces powerful results
b. This is the morale-boosting process as you witness your purposeful actions yield great returns
a. The actions help evaluate each step towards your goal. This is the bridge-building process that produces powerful results
b. This is the morale-boosting process as you witness your purposeful actions yield great returns
Failure dwarfs in the face of persistence goal-oriented actions. These dedicated action steps are great yardsticks to you're getting ahead.
The things you've not started today can never get ahead.
Only those things that you've started can have the possibility of being improved upon. So get started with your desires. Move them from desires to actions.