Setting out your objectives in words, spoken or better still written, is a good start, but you still need to act on them. It is your actions, your behavior that set the seal on moving towards your life goal list. Each thing that you do to moves in the right direction reinforces your overall motivation and sense of purpose on a path to personal development.
There’s an element of chance that should be taken into account as well as you consider your personal development plan. Not in getting to where you want to get to, because this in finality is determined by you and your will to succeed. Blaming chance for not getting to your end destination is a futile exercise. But chance does enter into to how each step along the path to personal development may be accomplished. As it is not always easy to see how to move ahead, you’ll probably need to try different alternatives. Some of these may work, others not. In the end, with a little persistence, a little tenacity, you’ll find a way to make it work. Don’t give up just because, by chance, your first try did not work out.
Can failure help to accelerate towards the goal?
Is there a way to eliminate even this element of chance as you pursue your personal development goals? It’s possible, but you’ll need to see if it’s worth it. One of the things that made the Internet revolution so dynamic and overwhelming was the realization by many people that they could joyfully launch into business ventures, make tons of mistakes and still come out after a short period of time, better off than they were before. Internet as a medium allows market testing and experimentation on a basis never available before. For a few dollars, you can get in front of surfers galore and try marketing ventures that can flop or succeed in the space of a week.
Compare this to the classical way of running marketing experiments, where detailed planning was necessary because the upfront costs were significantly more, and worse still, the results, whether success or failure, were not known typically until months after the initial launch. By that time, the investment of time, effort and money was truly sunk, and if it didn’t work out, you had to bite the bullet and get over it. This explains why a “space shuttle” approach was necessary, with considerable advance planning and simultaneous reduction in flexibility in altering a course once the project was launched.
You have the same choice in acting to pursue your goals. Whatever you choose will surely be in relation to what you want to achieve, what is at stake and what you may need to invest to get there. Launching a rocket to Mars is not something you can just dash off like putting up a trial website on the Internet. But when you see the difference and learn to compare and decide how to tackle different projects, you’ll see that you may not always want to eliminate chance. It may be far more productive to accept a particular failure rate, even a rate of accelerated failures, if this can quickly and harmlessly move you to a solution that works.
Mike Cosentino is a professional development expert, entrepreneur, and a top sales trainer read more of his topics or subscribe to his free newsletter at www.mikecosentino.net
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