Accomplish

"The truth of the matter is that there's nothing you can't accomplish if: (1) You clearly decide what it is that you're absolutely committed to achieving, (2) You're willing to take massive action, (3) You notice what's working or not, and (4) You continue to change your approach until you achieve what you want, using whatever life gives you along the way.”
Tony Robbins

The first step to reaching your goals is of course to establish what your goals are. This requires getting to know yourself; your strengths and weaknesses, and your values, and prioritizing what is really important to you. Few of us find the time to really think about these things because we are busy trying to cope with whatever is going on around us at the time. Decide clearly what it is that you most want to acheive, what is so important to you that you absolutely must accomplish it.

The next step is to be willing to take action. Talk is cheap. You can visualize what you want forever but until you do something about it nothing is going to happen. And you not only have to be willing to take action, you have to be willing to take action that is uncomfortable and risky. Most of all you have to be willing to keep taking action, even if it seems that nothing is happening, long enough to make it pay off for you. Even with exponential growth, there is a long period where you can see very little change happening.

Then you have to be able to take a step back and see what works and what doesn't. You do more of what works and don't do what doesn't work. And always try something new to see if that works too. Always experiment to see what works best. Even when an approach is working well, maybe something else will make things work better. Take what life throws at you, even if it seems a bad experience, and treat it as a challenge to make things better; find a way to use it to accomplish your goals.

You can accomplish anything. But it requires clarity, commitment, and the willingness to experiment. These are the things we really need to work on. Just like with planting seeds, there is a lot of preparation that must happen first in terms of clarity and commitment. And then actively looking after that seed, doing whatever we need to do, and persisting until it can show itself above the ground months later. Finally we will have been successful. We will have accomplished our goal.