Hey Folks,
Welcome To Goal Setting Lesson Four.
Now that you have understood the basic principles of goal setting, build your foundation and set your sights on that big dream, it’s time to move towards your goal. We don’t do it by quantum leaps, like one or two or even three huge steps, but a small step at a time.
Building A House
Think of working towards your dream like building a new house from scratch. The completed house is your big dream so what should your first step be? Get a blueprint of the house? Probably. Or maybe deciding on which location it should be built upon and acquiring that piece of land? As good a place to start as any.
Once you have done either of that, you need to get a permit to build the house (if it is necessary where you live) or buy the raw materials necessary to build it. Next you start laying the foundations, building the walls brick by brick and so on according to the blue print your acquired. As you can see, there is a process of multiple small steps to get you from nothing to that beautiful house you desired.
Building Your Dream
Similarly, in order to reach that big goal, that dream of yours, you need to know your process or plan and you will need to take on one small step at a time.
If your dream involves doing something someone has successfully achieved, you can seek those people out as mentors and get valuable advices that will help you reach your goal faster and in a smoother manner.
If your dream involves doing something no one else has done before, it will be more challenging but still achievable if you plan ahead and take it a step at a time.
Importance Of Small Steps
You keep hearing me repeat this phrase “taking it a step at a time” because it is important. Remember Goal Setting Lesson One where we start with simple task and goals? It’s the same, by breaking up a big goal into small ones, we make a tough goal look simple. That is the Key in taking small steps.
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
– Henry Ford
When facing big or tough goals, our mind induces that thought “How am I going to complete that!“. But when the same big or tough goal is broken down into simpler goals, our mind changes the thought into “That’s easy, I can do it!“.
A Garden With 50,000 Roses
If you enter a garden with 50,000 stalks of roses, your breath would be taken away immediately by it’s grandeur. It is by any standard a grand undertaking when it was done by one gardener.
Could the gardener have done it in one giant step by planting all 50,000 stalks, water them, care for them all at the same time? Unlikely. He will probably be exhausted just thinking about undertaking such a daunting task all at once.
A plan with a better chance of success would be to plant a stalk of rose a day and move on. It may take a longer time but you will get that garden at the end of the road. If you want it faster, maybe you can try planting 2 or 3 or 5 stalks a day. But 50,000 or 25,000, or 10,000 a day is definitely out of the question unless you have an army of gardeners.
I think you get the idea.
Reviewing Your Goal
So take some time to review that goal or dream that you have set. What’s your mind telling you when you read that dream/goal? Take some time and break it down into smaller goals. Now read those smaller goals again, what does your mind tell you this time? Can you do it now?
If you still can’t, break it down further.
If you can do it, what are you waiting for then? Go get it! 
Cheers,
James
Disclaimer: I am not a gardener and that illustration about planting rose is for illustration purpose to bring a point across. Technically, I don’t know how to grow roses. 
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Very often when we set goals that we dream about, it involves doing something that we have little or no competency in accomplishing. Hence, it is my opinion that most of the time, we begin our journey to our dream from a position of weakness.
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