YOU NEED TO BE A GOAL DIGGER!!

According to you, what is the goal? And how it needs to be completed?

Well! A goal is simply a task that drives you towards your dream and that needs to be completed in a certain time frame. Yet, we complicate it. That is because we lack goal setting and drive ourselves without clarity about our desired purpose. Though when we start to approach things the way a goal digger would, it changes our mindset.  According to the urban dictionary, “a person who: desire wealth in all areas of life. Seeks the secret of millionaire mind, Has the smart, optimistic, integrity, and passion to do it by themselves.” A goal digger is the one who commits to the goal they set and surrounds themselves with the success they desire to learn from them and also to hone their skills. So do you want to write that book of success for yourself? Sit down and do that. Maybe you want to be a musician, dancer, actor, or writer, or maybe you want to start a business. What are you waiting for? Often what stops us from being goal diggers are the problems surrounding us and that can be a damper. I get that, but always there will be problems, and often at times we forget that there’s hope. Maybe, that’s how we can help by giving a lending hand.

It all comes down to a point that how passionate you are to become successful. Now the question is, are you eager enough to continue to grow and learn so that you can improve yourself to be successful? One of the things you need to do to become successful is by being a goal digger is to get positive energy, integrity, passion, and brains to achieve your goal by yourself. Here I am giving you golden rules for the way to success.

1-     Be Committed

 It’s improbable you will ever become successful if you can’t commit. What I mean by this is you have to be committed to going through something. Let’s say you want to start your own business and have been thinking about this for two years. Procrastination is the enemy of commitment. When you plan on doing something start as soon as you can. If you let years pass, it will slow you down and you might never follow through.

Commitment is so important to becoming successful. When a successful person says they are going to do they do. They understand a concept that many of us fail to grasp and that is every step counts. Every goal shapes your success path. This is the first step in becoming a goal digger. You need to start and finish your goal in a timely fashion. This means you need to keep your momentum steady. Don’t take forever to start. Don’t take too long to write that book and allow it to gather dust.

Commit to seeing the end and you will work through any problem that does come your way.

2-     Know your why?

You must know the reasons why you are doing something. This is your why your big reason. Without this, you will struggle to achieve your goals. Why? One of the reasons is because you have no direction. Here’s an example, maybe you want to exercise more often. What is your reason for that? If you don’t have a reason, you will find yourself procrastinating.

We all procrastinate, but this will then become a habit that is hard to shake off. A few reasons why people choose to exercise regularly is because they want to lose weight, be healthier, or as a way to relieve themselves from stress. There are of course other reasons. To become a goal digger you need to search deep down and find the reasons why you are doing something. There’s always a reason for everything we do. Sometimes, we are so used to routines that we don’t realize the reasons behind our actions.

But if you want to be successful in accomplishing your goals then you need to know your reason. This will push past the obstacles that will stand in your way. And you will be able to achieve your goals in a timely fashion. This is also extremely important. Goals should be time-bound. 

3-     Time-bound

For you to become a goal digger than your goals should be time-bound. What this means is that every goal should be accomplished within a certain time frame. This is the reason why so many people never accomplish their goals. There’s no time frame and a goal that doesn’t have this will never be accomplished. That is why some people can take years to accomplish a goal.

As I said procrastination happens to all of us, but if there’s no time frame then you will continue to struggle to accomplish your goals. As children, we were used to time-frames. Even though we worked on it, we knew what we had to accomplish. This became part of our routines and many of us have forgotten this. We have forgotten how important time-frames are.

Success is built around using time-frames to push you forward. That is why so many successful people write in journals and place dates around a goal. If you want to be successful, start using time-frames for everything. If you want to start a professional certification then when do you want to start it? When do you want to be in a senior position in your career? How much money do you want to make by the end of the year?

4-     Start behaving like you are successful

This might sound a little strange. But the reason why you are struggling to become a goal digger is because of your mindset. I was once told that if you want to be successful start thinking like you already are. What this does is your habits and mindset start shifting. You stop seeing yourself as a failure. You stop doubting your belief that you can achieve success.

You start working at it. Your actions change as well. This is critical because our actions determine where we end up in life. How do successful people act? For one, they wake early even when they don’t want to. They do things that they don’t want to do. They accomplish goals in a timely fashion. Mindset is one of the most important keys to success because it pushes us to change who we are.

As much as many of us hate to change, we can’t become successful without changing ourselves. You need to start acting as a six-figure earner before you become one. The same can be said if you want to be a seven-figure or eight-figure earner. I am not saying it will be easy to change the way you think or behave. However, success requires drastic action and this is one thing that you should become successful.

5-     Take a strategic step

Now that you got the basics, here comes the challenge. Success requires strategy. You can’t build a building without a foundation and you certainly can’t start a business without a plan, you need a strategy even when it comes to your goals. Let’s say you have three main goals for the year. The first goal is completing a project on time. How are you going to do that? How many steps or milestones do you need to accomplish? 

Do you have a supervising officer overlooking the project? These are a few questions you need to ask yourself. Maybe, your goal is to start a business. What will your main platform be?

There’s a lot to consider when you are doing anything. Without a strategy, it will take a while for you to accomplish a goal or you will miss an important foundation. Foundation is the difference between a professional pianist and a clunky one. In everything we do, a foundation is seen as an important part of the process. There’s a reason for that. You can’t be successful if you miss out on this step. You certainly can’t be a goal digger you have no strategy either. 

If you have no idea how to do this, focus on it. I can promise you everything will change especially the way you work out your goals. This will also make things a lot easier for you so you need to work on your foundation. For every goal you have, there should be milestones and breakthroughs. This way you will know when you have made one.

6-     Find out what drives you

What are you confident about? What wakes you up early and keeps you up late? (Is it your family, Hobby, passion, etc.) You can incorporate your personal drives into your goal. But to find it with an appropriate purpose is important for your legacy to continue.

The things that drive you to do a certain thing will never let you feel bored, exhausted, or demoralized because at the end of the day you will find a way to keep yourself moving towards the destination you look up to.

7-     Believe in yourself

You can achieve whatever you set your mind to do, and for that, you have to just believe in yourself. Those with high confidence and self-belief levels not only solve problems quickly but also believe that they can complete any assignment to a good standard. Self-confidence means having a lot of faith in yourself and knowing how to use it to reach your goals and dreams.

8-     Determine what your current and future goals are

What do achieve now, in the next two years, five years, and ten years? Goals can change so make sure you revisit them on regular basis to have a check on existing progress so that you can adjust and align yourself to go further in the right direction. Putting things on the visionary board that you look at every day will help keep them constantly on your mind.

9-     Create an action plan

Split your journey in the next 2 years. Then move on 5 years and 10 years. A good action plan optimizes your pace towards your goal.

10-  Be resourceful

If you don’t know something figure it out! Ask people, look online, do whatever to get your answer. This strive will move you faster in the lane of dreams towards success and destination.

11-  Get uncomfortable

Push yourself outside your comfort zone. Be eager to move in the direction of the destination you’ve set to achieve your goals. All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physical or intellectual without effort, and effort means work. Comfort can lead to self-absorption, boredom, and discontent.

You can be comfortable and stagnate or stretch yourself to become uncomfortable and grow.

12-  Become a professional student

Seek knowledge, ask questions, learn from mistakes/failures, and talk to people, read and travel. People often feel shy or hesitant to ask questions and discuss their thoughts, as they feel weird to showcase their views about a particular thing that differs from others, they afraid to challenge others.

13-  Support, encourage and help people around

Be someone people are inspired by, someone people talk to, someone people feel comfortable around, and someone people trust! Surround yourself with people who are supportive, inspirational, helpful, and Goal Diggers themselves.

If you are already a Goal Digger, keep it up! If you aren’t one I hope this post gets you excited so that you can join the other Goal Diggers who are taking over control of their lives and bring along others as they go!