It’s incredible to see so many people out their achieving their goals in times like this. The clock is ticking and so many of us are doing things that we’ve only dreamed of.

There are five frogs and they’re all sitting on a log. Four of them decide to jump off.  How many are sitting on the log???  The answer is five.  Why?  Because their is a difference between deciding and doing.  You have to make a decision that do it!  You have to see it through to the end.  So many times we get started in things and then we just stop.  We meet an obstacle and instead of going “You know what?  I am going to find a way through this, I am going to learn it..I’m not sure how I am going to change but I am going to get together with my mentor and we are going to talk about it and figure this out!”.

We all dislike correction, don’t we?  Understanding that correction is constructive criticism is a way to take a step back and put things in perspective, because we are in the middle of it and we can’t see what we are doing wrong all the time.  When we are setting goals, we need to always remember to apply the “M.A.S.T.” (Meaningful, Achievement, Specific, and Time) equation to it.  Meaningful.  Is it going to benefit you and others.  Is it going to be something that I can make a difference in somebody else’s life too?  Achievement.  Ask yourself if the goal is achievable because sometimes we set are goals so far out there that when we get into it, we get to a point where we say to ourselves “What was I thinking, I can never do that”.  Well, then you’ve set your goal so high that in your own mind, you can’t achieve it.  SO ask yourself, “Is it achievable?”  Specific.  Is your goal defined, is it specific?  Sometimes we get out there and we are all pumped up and we’re like “whoo hoo…this is what it is and….”  What exactly is it?  We always have to know what we’re running for.  Then there is Time.  Do we have time on it?  Do we have a time limit?  If not, then it will be forever and we will keep running after this goal forever.

After we put a MAST on our goal, we then need to ask “How much is this going to cost?  What price is it that I’m going to have to pay for this goal?”  We ask ourselves this because we are going to have to determine what the price is that we are going to pay…if we don’t set the goal!  Understanding that there is a price for everything.  Check and Adjust.

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