Whenever you have a goal to achieve, big or small, it often requires resources. You need time, money or knowledge. Or, more abstract, you need support, encouragement or love. In this post, I’d like to share some common but nevertheless powerful knowledge with you about the resources you need to to succeed in achieving your goals.

Almost every successfully achieved goal consists of three crucial elements:

1. Defining the crystal clear goal. I wrote several posts about defining goals in your life, and finding purpose. Core of the matter: Whatever goal you want to achieve, describe it in detail. What does it look like? How does it feel? What does the world look like once you have achieved your goal?

2. Obtaining the resources you need. Before taking action, most people already decided for themselves that they simply do not have the right resources. But that is not what it’s about. It’s not about not having the money, time, knowledge, skills, etc. It’s about your current inability to obtain them. Stop and think about this for a moment. Is there really no money? There is plenty of it, and it’s out there! Do you really not have the time? You have the same amount of time every day as Einstein, Shakespeare and Edison; 24 hours! Don’t have the skills? There are other people out there with the skills, and they managed to obtain them. If you lack the skills yourself, find people who have them and find out how they did it. Looking at resources in this way can give you the radical new insights you need to achieve your goal!

3. The absolute desire and motivation to achieve it. I am sorry not to remember where, but recently I read this amazing quote: “No man was ever taking a walk in the mountains and suddenly found himself at the top of Mount Everest.” It’s very true, and applies to nearly every big goal. If you don’t clearly define the exact ‘location’ you want to arrive at, you won’t get there.

Even the cure to incurable disease is out there – we just haven’t found the cure yet. Despite the fact that we are still struggling, as a people, with the spread of HIV and aids, and that some other diseases can still not be cured, we managed to cure almost every major disease or found ways to reduce the chance of becoming sick to a minimum, because we have an absolute desire to cure these diseases. And it is because that desire that we already found a cure to most diseases. The only exception I can think of is time in this matter; A person with an incurable disease might not have the time to wait for a cure. But thankfully, this urgency also encourages the medical masterminds of this world to keep up on their good work.

The only real challenge is to obtain love. Because despite the fact that there are people out there who you can love, and who can love you, the place where those emotions are being given and received is not out there. It’s inside of you. And whether you would like to give someone the unconditional love he or she deserves, or receive it from someone, it requires you to be at ease with yourself. You really have to love yourself before you can love someone else.

Whatever you need to achieve your goal, ask yourself: Is it out there?

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