Many of us have at one time or another had goals we wanted to achieve but unfortunately most of us don’t achieve them. Of course the leadership Guru’s preach you must have goals because if you don’t have a destination you won’t get there. They are right but unfortunately only partly right.

The reason most people don’t accomplish their goals is because their goals are not who they are. Let me explain. If you were an Olympic runner how would you ‘be’ or live your life? You would ‘be’ a person who trained many hours per day, had a very disciplined workout regiment and breathed and slept Olympic running. Your passion would be that of an Olympic runner.

You know how all of the gurus tell you success is easy? Well, failure is easy too. In fact, it’s easier. It’s so easy in fact, that people do it every day, every minute, and every second. In setting goals, the surefire way to fail every time is to follow these five easy steps:

1. Lack Conviction
Goal setting without absolute conviction that you can attain the goals you set is never successful. When you begin any endeavor with even a small measure of disbelief, you are sabotaging your goal before you begin.

Of course the keyword in the title is action and I do believe almost any action is better than no action at all because you will always at least be learning something if you’re taking action. Action will be a result of the thoughts you’re thinking. I mean you won’t be thinking about scratching your head and then scratch your stomach.

Thoughts are the seeds to action. If you choose to take a job at a fast food restaurant in all likelihood you will make minimum wage. If you choose to be a doctor you will likely make an above average income. Think of being a truck driver and you will likely make a mediocre living.