Goals – START STARTING

Everyone has their own dreams and goals in life.

But it is evident that most people just keep on dreaming and never try to do something in order to attain those dreams. They just keep on looking back and miss the opportunities as they make the same goals all over again. You need to do something in order to make your goals come true.

Do not wait for other people to encourage you to achieve your goals, but be the one to encourage and show them that you have those objectives. You can make this by the following these pieces of advice.

  • Do your work in efficient ways in order to avoid problems as you go along the way. These problems often spoil the activities that you are have for your goal.
  • Make sure that as you achieve your goal, you will not affect anybody.
  • Whenever unexpected troubles occur, respond to them in a professional, efficient, good manner and in appropriate time.
  • Take with you the learnings that you are having each time for these will help you as you attain your goals in life.

Have time to think about what your goals are. You have plenty of time in resting and entertaining yourself. Try to steal some time from those and meditate on how you can improve yourself more and your way of living.

Think like no one will be there to save you and you should be responsible enough in shaping your future and your life. You have to do something in order to improve your situation and spread effort and time to your achieving process.

Do not ever remain effortless and stagnant if you want to have a change in your life. Dream big and make sure you reach your goals.

Goal setting – START COMMITTING

Being a goal-oriented individual will help you a lot in achieving the goals that you want in life. This term is a little old fashioned these days, but still relevant. In this series of articles our aim is to know about the main purposes of being a goal-oriented individual and of goal achievement. This may not force you organize yourself in a better way, but will surely help you attain true success and changes in life.

The term goal is defined by a state which you want to achieve together with a difference that you have been aiming for. And in order to achieve such goals, you need to make necessary decisions and take actions. Reaching your goals is significant since undergoing the process will give you useful experiences and learning which should transform you into a better person. Such transformation will open opportunities for improvement which will later lead to success.

In addition to that, one more advantage of being a goal-oriented person, is that you will develop the capability of thinking in longer terms and make more strategic decisions. It is very evident that too many people are looking at life with short terms only, often leading to bigger problems later on. On the other hand, goal-oriented individuals are usually planning long term, and practice doing things as early as their schedules will let them because they believe that time will come and their groundwork gives them advantages.

Not everyone can be flexible enough to be goal-oriented.  It will not be easy for you in the beginning to decide on which goals you are going to set yourself since you will need to take a long planned time frame and make strong efforts to reach them; some people just switch off at this point and carry on lurching from crisis to crisis. While reaching your goals, you will realize that you have been a better individual and have learned many things on the journey, which you can apply all throughout the rest of your life.

Before reaching your desired goals in life, setting them up first will help you have a long term view. It lets you concentrate and focus more on the long term objectives, as it gives you the chance to think on how your present actions will affect your life in the future. The things that you are doing nowadays in order to develop yourself will surely determine who you will be and what kind of life are you going to have in the future.  This is something that you should acquire as you go along with the process of attaining your goals.

Now that you know something about the goal achievement and its big significance in your life, it is the time for you to start planning and improving your life by the skills and power which you will obtain as you go through goal setting and attaining. Start practicing to be a good goal-oriented person.

Your goals – STOP FANTASIZING

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Sometimes, it seems that you are living in a world of fantasy. We often use ‘Entertainment’ in order to fantasize and escape from the happenings in the real world. What is your reason behind this act of fantasizing and the implications in terms of achieving your goals?

The act of fantasizing every now and then can lead to a confused mind which is always in a clash and unruly. Whenever you fantasize something, there can be a great chance that you are going to lust after it. It is a confusion over dreams and goals. Dreams have to become goals if they are to become real.

Living in a world of fantasy will not let you have a chance to see the real world as it is. Fantasy is often driven by your fear and greed. These two factors are the reasons behind the way most people react about life. It is important to know what the causes of such greediness and fear are. If you know your reasons, you will know how to attack that conflict correctly. Fantasizing results in having certain unrealistic expectations. It provides continuity to your occurrences of pain and pleasure. You will realize that something which happens because of fantasizing is not worthy at all.

So stop fantasizing now and start achieving the real goal that you have in this real world for the real satisfaction lying ahead of you.

Goals

We all have goals; things we want to achieve, places to visit, people to see, books to write, money in the bank, property for investment, flowers to grow, distance to run, walk or cycle etc. Over the next week or so I will include a series of articles on goals and goal setting, taken from a PLR source I bought some years ago.

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GOAL BASICS

There are already millions of words written about the setting and achieving of your goals, which are practiced by millions of people as well. However, most of the goals created are not fulfilled. Here are some great tips that will help you accomplish your goals.

1) Your goals should be original.

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This doesn’t mean that such goals need not to be somehow similar or same as the other goals of other individuals. It just means that you should have your own goal, not a second hand one. Many people are practicing to have their goals based from the expectation and hopes of their cultural norms, society, parents and teachers.

Practice setting goals that are originally yours. If it is not just from you, what will it mean? Accomplishing them will not give you the happiness and fulfilment you dream about.

2) Your goals should be inspirational.

Your passion must represent the kind of goals that you have. It should not be any promise or simple wants. It must be something that will drive you to strive harder and be fulfilled as you obtain it.

Passion is that something which pushes you to do whatever it takes to achieve your goals. It keeps you on the track. It strengthens your concentration and motivates you. It is the passion that inspires you and leads you to your desired goal.

3) Your goals should be harmonious in nature.

All your goals must be according to your perspectives and dreams in life. They must not contradict one another. Recognize who and what you are. Base from it the set of activities and goals that you will have.

4) The goals of you must be realistic in nature.

The goals that you will be setting must be accomplishable within a lifetime framework.

Realistic goal doesn’t mean that you must have the usual goal of everybody. There are goals sometimes which seem unachievable for everybody but determined persons were able to do so, such as building a personal computer at home. These goals are attainable and do not let other people set your limitations.

5) Have idealistic goals.

Your goals must be based on your personal ideas, and from who and what you are as of today. They should be based on the different aspects of you; such as the environmental and physical, relationships and emotional, financial and material, ethical and spiritual, and educational and mental aspects.

Set the goals in accordance to your ideals in life.

6) Make your goals specific.

You must have a specific goal in order for you to be able to do the right attack towards it. If you want to be a rich person, define what you mean by rich.

7) Your goals should be flexible.

Several individuals miss the chances of gaining their goals because their concentration with those goals is inflexible and constricted.

8) You must visualize your goals.

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Visualizing your goals in life will help you a lot and will serve as your motivation through the way. Imagining them makes them more realistic and believable. Build a vision board and put words and pictures where you will see them every day.

9) You should affirm your goals.

You must believe in yourself that the goal that you have is attainable and let everyone know about it so they can contribute to your achievement process. Keep it in your mind that if you will not believe in your goal, then you can never have it. Write them down and add them to your vision board.

10) Have a timely set of goals.

It is in time and space where everything exists. Set a specific period of time for the goals to become true.

11) You must have a list of all the goals that you want to achieve.

It has been proven through studies that people who jot down their goals have higher ability of accomplishing their tasks rather than those who only list such goals in their minds. People who don’t have a list of their goals are more likely to withdraw from the achievement process.

Private Label Rights – PLR – get some free!!!

I have a lot of PLR stored on my drive!

Some of it has been there for years and should probably be deleted. However I still find a lot of it to be very useful as a source for my blogs. I take the original and edit, customise, delete and add sections. Sometimes there are links to sites or software that has changed or disappeared. I find it is important to check out all of these links before publishing.

I also have access to a lot of free content – and I am giving away SureFireWealth.com Free One Year Silver Membership.

Due to private label being distributed to multiple customers, and without being exclusive or unique content, some marketers are hesitant on incorporating private label content into their marketing campaigns.

Private Label Content is best used as a “resource” rather than a ‘source”.

This means that you should start revising and improving existing private label content before distributing it under your own brand.

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Private Label Right’s content comes in many different formats, including PLR reports, eBooks, articles, graphics, templates, email newsletters and even videos. For my blogs I get reports or eBooks or graphics – often for free. If you want some free content then follow this link.

All PLR will come with a License of some sort.

While licenses differ with each author and seller, the basic premise is that the license permits buyers to re-brand the content under their own name and brand (excluding copyright). In general practice this means that the product can be modified, sold, resold or repurposed in many different formats. In some cases authorship on the original product is allowed and with unrestricted private label, buyers are often able to resell the same rights they’ve acquired although not all private label releases offer or permit license distribution or transfer.

Here is an example of the sort of thing you will see in a License;

[YES] Can edit, take apart, add to, or sell as is 

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Private Label Content comes with different rights depending on the developer so it’s important to thoroughly check each license prior to use, to become familiar with any restrictions that may be in place.

Some possible Advantages to using PLR:

  • Saving time.
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Covid – wow!

I didn’t realise the longer term effects it could have. I haven’t written or published anything on my blog in the two months since I had it. Always tired and lacking focus. Now is the time to ‘get back in the saddle’.

I still remember the start. Friday 2nd April I went out with some friends – there were five of us in all. We went to a restaurant, then to the rotating bar at the Baku Hilton (I live on the next block), then on to a pub close to me. In the next week 4 of us were diagnosed with Covid, and with me being by far the oldest, I suffered the most.

Where did we contract it? In one of the bars?  Did one of us already have it? How come 4 out of 5? Maybe the 5th person was an asymptomatic carrier?

It doesn’t matter.

Putting it into perspective of other respiratory ailments I’ve had in the past; it was a lot worse than flu but not as bad as pneumonia – that one almost killed me! At the worst point my temperature was up at 42° C and my lovely lady was cooling me with a mix of cold water and vinegar, and I was raving on about something – I don’t really remember this. Then the doctor found I had kidney stones, so for 5 nights a paramedic came to my home and administered a drip to help break the stones down.

Meanwhile my school was still operating online classes. I know that each day I was typing instructions for my classes into Google Classroom, though I didn’t have the energy to go into Zoom lessons. Nobody was tasked with covering my lessons, which led to a complaint from one parent. When I went back onto Zoom in the second week I had to laugh at my own on screen image – totally white face, sunken cheeks and bags under my eyes.

As I recovered it was time for reflection.

I still love teaching but I have had enough of schools. Too much data being recorded and analysed by people who should really be in the classroom teaching! And attitudes have changed. In my early days as a teacher I made mistakes and fought to control classroom behaviour and I could always rely on backup from senior staff. These days when kids misbehave we are just told it’s because we are bad teachers. Meanwhile those dishing out that useless advice sit in quiet offices looking at spreadsheets…

I decided to quit and head home to Liverpool. I stated teaching in September 1981 so forty years has been good!  I’ve taken time out for various reasons over the years (I missed 10 months when I had a horrible motorcycle accident and came close to having my right leg amputated – thank God for the skill of NHS surgeons). I spent a lot of time teaching in the UK though the last 15 years has been spent on contracts in Qatar, Abu Dhabi, China, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Gran Canaria and Morocco. It has been fantastic fun – I just don’t want to do it anymore!

My reflections took me back to reading a couple of classics to help me re-focus my ideas. I am working my way through ‘Think and Grow Rich’ and ‘The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People’. When I get back to UK I will get all of my books out of storage and the first one to the top of the pile will be ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’.

When I get back to ‘blighty’ I will work to open a Kumon tuition centre for several evenings a week. This will give me time to focus on something I have dallied with over the years – creative writing. I have the outline for about 9 books in my head, plus a book of poetry and several volumes of reflections on my teaching career, the latest of which has the working title ‘You’re welcome to Baku’! I will work on my blogs including some personal reflections, short stories, extracts from my novels, insights to Online Business and some edited PLR articles.

I have been impressed by the amount of support, follows and likes on my blogs. I hope to continue keeping you informed and entertained over the coming years.