Part I Achieving Your Dream –  Responsibility and Perseverance

What will stop you from achieving your goals?

The answer has to do with Responsibility and Perseverance. 

These are the two words that we usually do not like to hear. Why? Because they invoke a sense of hard work. We would prefer the words “Relax”, “Chill”, “Holidays” and the likes of it.

Our untrained emotions like to play this trick on us. When we envision ourselves taking responsibility for our goals and persevering towards them, suddenly a sense of difficulty or fear may overwhelm us.

This works against us, and we end up avoiding responsibility and not persevering. Often, this wires us to ‘feel’ that ‘responsibility’ and ‘perseverance’ equals ‘difficulty’ and ‘fear’. 

However, this feeling does not coincide with reality. The difficulty of a goal lies in the lack of knowledge, skills and resources we have. 

In contrast to the trick our emotions play, taking up responsibility and persevering to obtain these knowledge, skills and resources reduces the difficulty of our goals.

If you look up the dictionary definition of responsibility, other than having a duty to deal with something and being accountable for something, it also has a third part to its meaning which we often overlook.  

That is – the opportunity and ability to act independently and take decisions without authorisation. 

Isn’t this what we all have been fighting for since young? How did we let duties and accountabilities scare us into shutting our opportunities and limiting our abilities?

Perseverance and Responsibility – quite a mouthful themselves – are qualities important for reaching our life goals. 

Anything worth being a life goal is always not easy to attain. Denying Perseverance and Responsibility the chance to help us will not make these goals any easier. It will instead make things only more difficult. 

So train up your emotions and don’t let them mess with you anymore! The next time you hear the words “Perseverance” and “Responsibility” – 

SMILE! Embrace them! Love them!

 These are the qualities that will aid you in achieving your goals! 😊