Dreams and goals are accomplished when you've the determination to aim for them, working your hardest to do your best. You cannot reach your full potential unless you've the will to do your very best at all times and work past the many difficulties that will arise along life's path. Being determined gives you the strength to push yourself. Even when you don't want to, knowing you should will give you the extra bump in the right direction.
All great achievers in life made it where they are today due to their determination. You cannot simply wake up in the morning and become the best doctor, popular singer, first class scholar, the best writer...e.t.c but you can wake up and decide to work at it. Everything is a work in progress at some point, and with the strength of determination it becomes an achievement in time.
Priorities are a necessity for a determined person, knowing the rank of importance in everything you're doing. Prioritizing your life helps you keep your goals in check and likewise makes them easier to accomplish.
Most of us look at our to-do list, determine which tasks we can knock out right away, and decide to start that important project "in a little while". Then we go out to visit a friend saying we'll work on it later when you return. Then what happens? You're either too tired or something else comes up that demands your attention and you get nothing accomplished that day. When "later" comes there will always be something else you should be doing instead. If you always forgo a little of something, a month or years later you'll feel defeat for having accomplished so little. This is the "tyranny of the urgent"
The thing is if you don't have a plan for your time, someone else does. The first one to claim it wins. What matters most? Because we don't know what is really important to us everything seems important. Because everything seems important, we've to do everything. Other people see us as doing everything so they expect us to do everything. Your neighbour wants you to accompany him somewhere, your friend wants you both to go out on a stroll. Your next door neighbour need someone to talk to.........all this and lots more comes up and you gets so busy that you don't have time to think about what's really important to you. When we live our lives in accordance with what matters most to us, we can be productive, satisfied and happy. Get into the habit of scheduling what matters most first.
If you're not able to distinguish the urgent from the important your life can be and will be driven by crisis. You'll be forced to go from one urgent crisis to another with little or no hope of understanding what is most important and less chance to be able to accomplish what is important to you!
"If we would manage time first we must understand that there's no such thing as time management. Then we must learn to distinguish the important from the urgent "Mackenzie"
Time is finite and easily measured and allocated into seconds, minutes, hours, days and years. None if us has enough time according to Einstein..yet each of us has all that there is!
Today we will have 1440 minutes. Tomorrow we'll get a new allocation. There's nothing we can do to get more or less. All we can hope is to manage our absolute, relative finite resources as best as we can to accomplish what we will.
As I earlier said prioritizing your life helps you keep your goals in check and likewise makes them easier to accomplish. I would like to tell you the story of Michael Jordan, he loved playing basketball and was told by his highschool basketball coach that he wasn't good enough and would never make the team.
He didn't take it lightly, and he didn't let it get him down. He worked harder than ever! Every night when he got home from school he'd go outside and take shots on the net, not just a few, or ten or twenty, only after sinking one thousand successful shots would Michael be satisfied enough to go back inside. He did this every single night.
He was committed and determined to becoming the best he possibly could be, and it worked! In 1981, he received a basketball scholarship and in 1984, he entered the NBA draft where he was then selected by the Chicago bulls as their third pick. His determination drove him to achieve ultimate successes in his life, with the help of a good set of priorities to overcome and conquer the rejection he faced when his coach told him he wasn't good enough, he succeeded over all. Today you won't talk of basketball without mentioning Michael Jordan.
A determined person is generally optimistic as well, being able to look past the shadow, to see the light so you can get to where you want to be is a very incredible skill. Someone who lacks determination wouldn't have the mindset to look for the bright side in things and would settle for whatever he or she got. Optimism plays a big role in improving, in allowing one self to know you can do better and actually doing it which is key in being determined.
Determination is something that makes your life successful. Without it you do not have the drive to achieve great things or better yourself. Your life is yours to control and to create whatever your heart desires, and determination will help you in doing so! Note: By being determined, you're opening the door, for a better tomorrow, future investments and overall happiness in your life.
Don't forget failure spurred Michael to strive for the best....
Thanks.....Rossy
