Chase emotions not goals

We have all been ingrained to chase after our goals, as this appears to be a measure of our success. Often we fail because we are chasing after the wrong thing. If we are determined and have a certain amount of luck we may be fortunate to achieve our goal, often but that is not enough to achieve success. How do you feel when you miss out?

For example if we chase after a million pounds, it maybe is a nice thing to have it but it is not inspiring in anyway. The money achieved is merely the result not the reward. How you feel when you spend the money is the emotional reward that you receive, therefore the money is merely a tool to get there.

Imagine your goal as if you were baking a cake. The plan is to go shopping for the ingredients, the strategy is how you blend them all together and delivery is putting the mixture into the oven. Hurray you’ve made a cake, but it isn’t very inspiring, most motivated people can follow a similar process. Regardless of whether the cake turns out to be a success or failure, you have still achieved your aim to bake a cake.

So do you leave your results to chance and accept meritocracy or do you want to aspire to something that bigger than that? Think about your baked creation and how it makes you feel, the smell of the sweet ingredients, the perfect appearance of the fluffy masterpiece and the pride you feel when you know that it’s turned out really well. You can now understand “what’s in it for you” that feeling behind the task.

Now focus on how others salivate over your masterpiece, rave over your achievements and aspire to bake a creation worthy to compete; now you are starting to create a legacy. You will be known as the person who encouraged them to cook and be remembered for how you make them feel when they have a baking success, that’s “what’s in it for them”.

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