Don't Lose Sight of Your Personal Dreams and Goals

I’ve worked for someone else for over 30 years of my life in a full-time capacity. That’s a long time to invest in something other than the dreams and goals I have for myself. However, working for a company or someone else's business is not an uncommon thing. Being able to provide for yourself and your family is absolutely necessary and its great when you can do that while working in a nice, comfortable and drama free environment. If you are happy and satisfied with what you are doing to earn a living, that’s wonderful!

In my experience, most people are not satisfied with their day jobs and we become comfortable with helping someone else achieve their career goals, while we allow them to give us just enough money and benefits to keep helping them to succeed. Therefore, we can get so preoccupied with working a day job that it distracts us from pursuing our personal dreams and goals.

One thing you must realize and stay constantly aware of is that you have the potential within to be successful and live the life of your dreams.

Here are 3 tips to help you get started with accomplishing your dreams and goals while working a day job.

1. Purchase a Journal. Writing down your dreams and goals is a great first step to make toward achievement. It helps you to see what it is you intend to accomplish. When you review your dreams and goals daily it provides a certain level of focus and motivation for you to keep moving forward.


2. Utilize Social Media. This is another wonderful action step to take towards your dreams and goals. Being on Social Media, gives you an opportunity to learn everything you need to in your desired interest. You are also able to connect with like-minded individuals to learn from or to acquire potential clients. Conducting your business online can be done in the comfort of your own home or anywhere you can connect.


3. Hire a Success Coach. Being a coach myself, I can say that this is the most important tip to getting your dreams and goals accomplished. I, personally, accomplish so much more when I am working together with my coach. I love the support, new ideas and strategies that I did not know that help me expand my thinking. It helps me through obstacles that may block my accomplishment at the time.

We all have different responsibilities and circumstances and some are more challenging than others. If you have a deep desire and belief that there is something more you must do in life, know that it is possible. There is truth to the old saying, "Where there is a will, there is a way."

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JoAnn Youngblood King, CTA Certified Success Coach, Author, Speaker and Owner of Live Your Potential is a member of Coach Training Alliance, and The International Association of Coaches. She specializes in working with mom entrepreneurs to find the time needed to start their business or take their existing business to the next level. To reach your immediate goals get strategic steps by subscribing to her newsletter to the right. For ways of achieving goals with your faith, JoAnn's new book is released, Live Your Potential and Let Your Faith Lead You to Success available on Amazon.

How to Avoid Distractions Staying Focused on Your Goals

Recently, someone mentioned to me that they didn't want to travel for the holidays because of the fear of catching a disease. I also heard a few people mentioned how depressed and sad they were about some recent news about their favorite celebrity.

At times the media causes us to get so consumed with what is going on in the lives of others that we slowly take the focus off of ourselves.  Sure, it’s important for us to be informed about what is going on in the world.  However, letting what we hear stop us from being happy, healthy and prosperous is not such a good thing.

What you put into your mind has an effect on your whole life.  Realize that watching the news may cause you to worry, keep you in a constant state of fear and stop you from moving yourself to a higher level of success.  I’m not suggesting that you stop watching the news altogether.  I’m simply saying to be mindful of how you are choosing to react to or hold on to the information you are receiving.  Yes, it is true that there are problems and issues in life we must be aware of. However, your success is determined by how you take in, process and handle those problems and issues.

Please make a habit of shifting the focus back to you!  Take a good look at yourself.  Are you aware of the power you have within your own life to make a difference in the lives of others?  Are you seeking out material that will inspire and uplift your spirit?  Did you know that you have the answers to the questions you seek?  Do you know that you can accomplish any goal you choose to?  Do you know that whatever problem you are faced with right now, you can figure out a way to solve it?

Please be constantly aware of what you are thinking about and focusing on, in order to keep moving to the level of success you aspire to. Focus on your success and determine to be successful no matter what!

Have a happy and healthy Thanksgiving!

“Don’t dwell on what went wrong.  Instead focus on what to do next.  Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” – Denis Waitley

“Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them.  They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.” – Jack Canfield