Set Your Goals To
Get Success

by Jayanti Jain

“People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals--that is, goals that do not inspire them”

--Anthony Robbins
(American motivational writer)

The important thing is not where you were or where you are but where you want to get at? A goal is  an objective, a purpose. Set your goal and act according to  that and  success will be yours.

How  Setting  Goals  Can  Build  Your Future

The goal decides the career.  It determines the purpose of   living. The goals focus our whole energy into  desired directions. Immediate and intended action is only fruitful when goal is set forth. The goal setting encourages us. To take action is not hard after determining goals. You will have enthusiasm in the pursuit of  your goals. It forces us to plan a day.  A definite goal inspires and motivates  you.

First be ambitious, then have some definite goals. Nepolean was full of ambition. So  he set his goal to  become the leader of the Revolution of France.

“Before you can score, you must have a goal”

--Proverb

How Subhas Bose  Set his Goal

 Subhas Chandra Bose was ambitious. When he came across the atrocities of the Britishers with the Indians, he set his goal to make his motherland independent from the  British rule at any cost. “Shut  up  idiot, you black Indian”, a British student shouted over the fellow Indian student. It was the scene of a class - room of the Presidency  college at Calcutta during the  British rule.

The British student caught hold of the Indian student and slapped him.  Nobody opposed it. But one brave Indian class-fellow could not tolerate this misbehavior. He decided to oppose it. Just then professor came into the class room  and everything became quiet and calm. Yet, the mind of the brave student did not take rest. He analysed the issue and  looked for solutions. He set his goal to free India from the British rule  at any cost. One day he gave  the slogan “Give me  blood and I will give you freedom.”

Subhas Chandra Bose’s goal was clear so he left the Indian Civil Service (similar to IAS today). Once he was even elected President of the Indian National Congress Party inspite of Gandhi’s Opposition. Later on he was imprisoned by the British. He escaped from the prison and crossed every hurdle. He led the Indian National Army at Singapur, which fought against the British during the Second World War. All this happened because (1) he set his goal  (2)  he planned and took definite action to achieve his goal (3) he was ready to pay its price . He was ready even to sacrifice his life. Therefore, we call him “NETAJI”
 

Goal-Setting Influences Your Nervous System

Our body is controlled by mind. Mind controls the nervous system. A nervous system is similar to a bio-telephonic line or nerve cells, throughout the  body which carries messages from one part of the body to brain or spinal cord and from there to respective parts of  the body. Our body has got fifty trillion (50,000,000,000,000) cells. They are independent and interwoven . Any one cell cannot survive independently. They are mutually affected by each other.

Deepak Chopra, an international famous doctor, who is invited throughout the world for his talk  has dedicated his life to investigate and teach the relation between mind and body.

Initially, it was believed that mind only  thinks and that there is no biological or chemical basis for thinking and emotion. Doctors used to say “Your body is OK, you just think that there is a pain.”

Now, as Dr.Deepak Chopra has clearly explained in several of  his books including “Ageless Body Timeless Mind” that every such fear is not just in mind. There are chemicals which are associated with fear. And these are not just in your mind but in several parts of your whole body.  When such chemicals are associate with,  fear creeps up in body, and the mind  experiences fear. In this way your mind and body are related. It means that goal setting is not only mental exercise but it activates  the whole body towards  your goals.