Setting goals is a great motivator :

- To tap the boundless possibilities within us, the goals we set must be high enough and  ambitious enough to challenge us to strive beyond our limits and bring out the best in us.

- Goal setting does not stop with just imagining goals. We have to prepare a plan to achieve it and initiate action that will help us vigorously pursue our target.

- When setting a goal, there is bound to be some pressure and tension that keeps reminding us of our pursuit. If you try to avoid this pressure by being inactive, then what we set out for will not be interesting and you will lose focus.

- Using stress to goad you in achieving your goal is always a good tactic. One such effective way is to make known to your family and friends, and to anyone you have a high regard, about your commitment to achieve a certain goal at any cost. This will provide a positive tension that keeps you focussed on the goal when frustration or lethargy seeps in.

- Happiness, for most people means the achievement of a goal. They defer their joy to the moment, however long it takes, when they finally get to the winning post. But real happiness lies in savouring every moment we are striving and succeeding in our pursuit of that goal.

- Once you have decided on your goal and give it the utmost priority, the intensity of your emotions increase and by constant focus on it, even resources that seemed redundant will become tools in achieving the goal and more and more resources come to mind, thus making your task easier.

- Most important, the pattern of thinking needs a revamp. We are in the present position because of our outdated notions and beliefs. Now we need a level of thinking that is far more enlightened than the previous one. Only then, what we set out to conquer will be ours eventually.

Experience is a definite asset :

- The more the number and greater the quality of our experience, the more will be our potential level of alternatives that will help us decide more accurately what things mean and what we can do. It is not just our experiences, but how we interpret them that will surely determine our beliefs.

- Whatever we experience gets recorded in our nervous system and eventually our brain. These experiences will determine how we feel, because what is good and what is bad is all based on what you are comparing it to.

- Experiences need not be the ones that actually occur in our life. Our imagination is itself a source of experience. The more we  imagine a particular event or happening, the more will our mind be convinced of its reality.

- Imagined experiences can be had by reading books, watching video tapes, listening to audio tapes, going to seminars, participating in webinars, talking with successful and happy people and so on. The more you do these things the more you get to think like the author of the book, the tapes and the person delivering the message in a seminar.

SO LET US MAKE USE OF OUR EXPERIENCES IN ACHIEVING OUR GOALS AND LEAD A HAPPY AND CONTENDED LIFE.