NEWSPOT DAILY TONIC: Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination. Bishop Duke Akamisoko

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. Famous motto ‘Obstacles are what you see when you take your eye off the goal.‘
Giving up is not my style. I just want to do something that’s worthwhile. People with goals succeed because they know where they’re going. A year from now you may wish you had started today. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. You must do the things you think you cannot do. Goals are dreams with deadlines. The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man’s foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher. I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there, you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks. Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
You cannot change the direction of the wind, but you can adjust your sails to always reach your destination. If a goal is worth having, it’s worth blocking out the time in your day-to-day life necessary to achieve it. You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will. You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals. If you’re bored with life — you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things — you don’t have enough goals. Do not wait; the time will never be ‘just right.’ Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. You can’t hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can’t catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can’t reach your goals if you don’t try. Obstacles can’t stop you. Problems can’t stop you. Most of all, other people can’t stop you. Only you can stop you. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals. We aim above the mark to hit the mark. Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. You just can’t beat the person who never gives up. Why should you continue going after your dreams? Because seeing the look on the faces of the people who said you couldn’t… will be priceless. Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. The trouble with not having a goal is that you can spend your life running up and down the field and never score. You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for. When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.