AMY HANSEN

The journey to achieving your goal can be long and difficult.  There are many obstacles that will come your way.  However, those obstacles are meant to test your strength, will power, and perseverance for how badly you want to achieve your goal.  Here are six things you can do to help you to reach the finish line and get to where you’re going.

Baggage

Imagine you’re going on a car ride to achieve your goal.  You’re going to need to pack a few things to take on your trip.  Leave behind all your fears, worries, and doubts.  Those things can weigh down your car and get pretty heavy.  Lighten your load and let go of some of things you’ve been carrying around.  You don’t need these on the journey.  In fact, they will only hinder you and slow you down from reaching your goal.  Instead, only bring your essentials.  Such as, water, snacks, and a positive outlook with the determination that you will reach your goal.  Try not to overpack.  Release your inner baggage because you don’t have r...

The negative inner critic in your mind starts getting loud when you’re trying to step outside your comfort zone.  It just wants to keep you safe.  But, that limits what you’re able to do.  It ultimately prevents you from achieving your goals and dreams in life.  Stop letting that negative voice paralyze you.  Here is how to overcome your negative inner critic.

Take Responsibility

First, acknowledge that the inner critic is you.  It’s not someone else.  It’s not an alter ego or a bad part of you.  It’s simply you.  When you recognize that this voice is truly yours, you have the power to change it.  The voice may have been formed by things that you’ve heard others say.  But, you have repeatedly told yourself these things which have made them your own.  By taking ownership of this inner critic, you are admitting that you’re 100% responsible for either believing or not believing what that voice is telling you.  Take responsibility and change the direction your life is headed in by ove...

With success comes failure.  Usually you have to fail a bunch of times before you reach success.  It takes a lot of learning, tweaking, and adjusting to get there.  But, when you do, you sure are excited and proud of yourself.  Failure is inevitable when you’re going after something you really want in life.  The key is to persevere through the failure in order to successfully achieve your goals.  That’s why you must change your perspective on failure so that you don’t give up on your goals and dreams in life.

Avoiding Failure

When you’re working to achieve your goals there are a lot of unknowns.  You don’t have all the answers or the perfect direct path mapped out.  So, you continue researching and stalling with other reasons as to why you’re not quite ready to take action yet.  When the truth is, you’re just afraid to experience failure.  However, this waiting is what keeps you stuck where you currently are without any progress.  If you’re trying to avoid failure because of how y...

An abundant mindset thinks different than someone with a scarcity mindset.  Scarcity comes from lack, fear, doubt, and worry.  Abundance comes from more, trust, and belief.  The energy you send out into the world gets attracted back to you.  If you want more abundance in your life then it’s time to start thinking with an abundant mindset.  Here are four things people with an abundant mindset believe.

Can Achieve Your Goals

When you think with an abundant mindset, you believe that you can achieve your goals.  You know you that you can figure it out.  If you struggle, you know the right people will come your way to assist you.  You believe in your own value and attract more of those people to you.  You don’t make excuses because you take control and go after your goals and dreams in life.  An abundant mindset helps you to act with courage.  There is an unwavering belief that your success is inevitable.  Deep down, you know that you are truly worthy and deserving of success.  There i...

Mantras are a powerful way to tell your mind what you want to believe.  You repeatedly tell yourself a phrase that motivates you to believe something particular so that you can take action and move through what’s been holding you back.  Usually, these blocks are fear, worry, and doubt that prevent you from achieving your goals in life.  Here is a mantra you can use to help you believe that your success is inevitable.

Everything Is Working Out

The first part of the mantra is to believe that everything is working out.  Believe that everything is working in your favor.  Sometimes it may not seem that way, but there’s usually a lesson to learn in the obstacles of life.  Look for those lessons and know that you will get through it.  The proof is already there because you’ve made it this far in life.  Things may not have gone exactly as planned, but you’ve persevered, learned a lot, and grown along the way.  Trust that it will all work out in the end and you will achieve your goals.

You must create the thought of achieving your goal in your mind before it actually becomes your reality.  That first initial thought of what you want to achieve solidifies it as entirely possible.  But, often you get hung up in all the worries, doubts, and fears along the way that cause you to question your ability to achieve your goal.  Visualizing the point when you’ve achieved your goal is extremely powerful.  It creates that subtle knowing that your success is inevitable.  You will achieve your goal.  It’s going to happen.  Here is a quick six step visualization to help you achieve your goal.

Specific Goal

Think about the goal you want to achieve.  Make sure it’s specific enough so that you know when you’ll have achieved it.  Vague goals will only give you a vague visualization.  Ensure that your goal is tangible and includes measure.  Be specific and get clear on the exact goal you want to achieve.

What It Will Do For You

Now that you have your goal in mind, consider wha...

You’re not always going to be motivated to achieve your goals.  There will be times when you don’t feel motivated to do much of anything.  But, that’s when you have to recognize what’s causing the lack of motivation.  Perhaps it’s fear, worry, self doubt, procrastination, or any of the other likely suspects.  Or, it could just be that you’re feeling a bit run down and need to take a break so that you can relax and regroup.  Here is what to do when you lack motivation to achieve your goals.

Lack of Motivation

First, acknowledge what’s causing your lack of motivation.  Figure out if it’s fear that’s holding you back from working towards your goals.  Ask yourself if you’re afraid of taking action towards your goals because you’re unsure of the outcome or how it might look if you fail.  Maybe you’re just procrastinating because you don’t want to do the difficult unfun work to achieve your goals.  These tasks may seem tough and boring compared to other activities that are either simple...

Sometimes you have a dream that seems so far fetched that you question if it’s even possible.  You start to second guess yourself and wonder if you should even try to achieve that dream.  This is when dreams remain a dream.  Instead, challenge yourself to push through and work towards achieving your big dream.  Here are four things you need to achieve your big dreams.

You Are Capable

A dream is put on your heart for a reason.  You are fully capable of achieving your big dream if you have the courage to go for it.  The truth is, you’ve made it this far in life.  You’ve encountered many challenges and some how, you’ve managed to make it through.  You’ve figured it out one way or another.  It might have been messy and not perfect but that’s life.  The same goes for going after big dreams.  It’s not going to be all rainbows and sunshine.  It’s going to be difficult.  But, you’ll become so much strong and better because of it.  Realize that you are truly capable of achieving your big d...

Often you dream about something you want to achieve and it just remains a dream.  Maybe it’s because it seems too far fetched, that it’s not possible or that it requires too much time and effort.  Either way, your dream sits on the sidelines, gathering dust, never to be realized.  But no more!  It’s time to turn your dream into reality!  Here are five steps on how to turn your dream into reality.

Get Clear On Your Dream

First, take time to fully flesh out your dream.  Close your eyes, allow your mind to wander, and dream.  Tune into your soul and what you want.  Visualize your future and what you want to make happen.  Make this visualization vividly clear on what exactly it is that you want to achieve.  Be specific so that you know without a shadow of a doubt what your dream consists of.  Define why this dream is important to you and what it will mean for you to achieve it.  Deeply connect with those feelings and then open your eyes to write it all down on paper.  Describe what yo...

Big dreams are scary because you don’t know what will be required of you to make it happen.  Your inner critic speaks up and starts giving you all the reasons why you can’t or shouldn’t go after a big dream.  This leaves you with either small dreams that are easily achieved or worse yet, leaving your dreams on the sidelines collecting dust because you’re too afraid to go for it.  Here is how to know if you are dreaming big enough.

Effort

If you can easily achieve your dream with little to no effort, then you’re not dreaming big enough.  Big dreams require a lot of time and attention.  It requires a lot of work on your part.  It’s not accomplished in an hour or a day.  It takes much longer.  The finish line of achieving your dream is often so far out in the distance that it can be hard to see.  For that reason, it can be difficult to stay motivated when you aren’t super close to making it happen.  That’s why you have to celebrate your little milestones, the smaller wins, and the co...