Do you have long-term projects with short-term expectations? If you do, that is a sure path to frustration and failure.
Lifestyle goals like exercise and healthful diet have to become habits to be effective . A career change such as a new job or learning how to earn money at home also needs time and planning, and it doesn’t occur overnight.
Your world has shifted. There’s voice mail, email, pagers, and faxes that have made a waiting period unacceptable and almost outdated. With info right away available, we think relations and goal achievement to be done the same. As you read this you know that it is unreasonable to expect that, don’t you? We have been controlled by advertisers to accept that we deserve immediate gratification, and that it is readily and effortlessly available!
When you would like to train a puppy, you know that it’s going to take time and consistent re-strengthening. You are prepared for that, because you desire your little dog to behave in an acceptable way. Why then, are you so patient with the little puppy and so hard on yourself?
When you plant seeds in the garden, you tend them, water them, hope for sunlight and nurture them. Are you nurturing yourself?
The easiest way to move gently and effectively towards your goals is to take a reasonable approach. Break your long-term project goal into sub-goals. Break it into do-able, short-term chunks. Today prepare the soil ; tomorrow plant the seeds.
Each action you take and each step is gratifying as you know it is making a contribution to the completion of your goal. You can’t rush Mother Nature with your garden, and the same is right for your goals.
This process is much more than “bloom where you are planted”, because when you are the gardener you choose what to plant and the way to nurture it. Do the same for yourself, and grow yourself fantastically. Your goals will be accomplished in due time, and you won’t finish up up-tight and frazzled.
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