"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself."Jim Rohn
When you have direction you have a day to day strategy on how to achieve a goal. The key to developing direction is by identifying the steps that lead to success. For each and every goal you have there are steps that pay off and steps that do not. Make a list of all your current activities in which you are doing daily. How many of those activities are pointed towards your goals? Which ones are working, and which ones are not? Then make a action plan based on all the activities that are working for you.
Keeping track of the tasks in which you use in order to achieve your goals will direct your energy towards success. Use this as a constant reminder so you can stay focused and not waste your time on irrelevant activities.
When your motivation begins to break, take the time to make a action plan. Create this plan with two goals, one short term and one long term. Being able to accomplish the short term goal will help build your motivation for getting out of a slump and accomplish the long term goal. I would recommend that for any long term goals you have, create a short term goal timeline that leads up to the accomplishment of that long term goal.
No matter what you will hit times of low energy, bad luck, or lack of motivation , but the key is developing direction. Direction will aid in you to staying determined. You must discipline your mind, in order to achieve any type of long term goal. When you use the power of direction you stay focused, any goal becomes just a matter of time.
Allen Loomis is the founder and author of the highly successful self improvement blog SuccessDemandsAction.net. He has written over 500 articles focusing on the enhancement of other peoples lives. His articles cover a wide variety of self help topics including relationships, productivity, and spirituality. Allen is in the process of writing his first self improvement book The Power Of Action