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Achieving My Goals
I just wanted to share some exciting news with you all – I achieved a 10 year goal and I did it by one month!
Yes, I’ve been promoted at Cadburys and I’m off with my family to Bangkok for a few years as Finance Director for South East Asia.
Apart from wanting to share the news with all of you, the reason for this newsletter is that my experience has taught me a lot about goals, having faith, being resilient and taking action to achieve something.
Focus
I’ve thought about the last 10 years and realised that all my actions and all of my thinking has been focussed around this goal. Both consciously and subconsciously I have been totally focused on my target to the point that I have been obsessed (in a normal way!) about it. For example all of my passwords at work have been related to my new role – I’ve been living and breathing it.
Along the way I’ve had some choices to make and some tough decisions to take and if I hadn’t been so focused on what I wanted I could have made the wrong choice.
There have also been some setbacks and other people have been promoted above me but I’ve believed that as long I stay focussed and take action I’ll get there and there may be some obstacles in the way but they are just minor irritations.
Victory
And then England won the Ashes! What’s this got to do with my goal? Well, as you know I believe we can learn a lot from sport and the England Ashes victory for me displayed a number of key themes consistent with my journey to my goal:
- 100% focus on a goal
- Resilience and a never say die attitude
- Passion and energy
- Obsession
So, whatever you are working on – your career, building a business or making change in your life think about these five points and build them into your life – from personal experience it can make a difference!
