Achieving your goals effectively

We all set goals. Whether you seek to secure a new job or to master a new recipe, we can either attain our goals or give up and push our goals to the side. When we set goals, we yearn to improve some aspect of our daily life—it can be either improving our physical or mental health. But, oftentimes the process of working towards one’s desires can fail; perhaps there is a lack of motivation, the goal is unattainable given your current situation, or the goal might be unpopular. We must recognize, however, that any goal is achievable if we approach it with the right mindset…

Being a figure skater, I have learned the difficult way of facing and enduring hard-to-achieve goals. When I first stepped onto the ice as a young kid, I wanted to acquire all the triple and quadruple jumps possible in figure skating. Years later, sixteen-years of age, I find myself proud if I am able to achieve at least two triples. I recognize the pain, blood, sweat, and tears that go into each jump—jumps that often take weeks, months, and years to gain. Yet, I have been exposed to a deeper understanding of effectively achieving one’s goals because of my experience with figure skating.

When we set goals, there is an innate instinct to want to aim high—maybe you want to make it to the Olympics, become president of the United States, become the CEO of a fortune-five-hundred company, or own a…