Achievement

What have you achieved today? This week? This month? Last month? This year?
Are you able to put your hand on your heart and say to yourself or anybody else for that matter, that you have achieved any of your goals, dreams or wishes lately?
It is not long ago that many people were making New Year’s resolutions, to achieve this, that or the other and yet, statistically 80% of people fail to keep to them. Are you one of those 80% or one of the 20% who managed to succeed in achieving their resolution? I hope you were one of the latter, because achieving a meaningful goal brings confidence, more determination, increased self-esteem and greater drive to achieve even more.
However if you are in the 80% you may be at the stage where you have finally managed to brush off the importance of the now unimportant goal. You may have managed to blamed someone else for your failure, or created tight timeframes which were just too tight to achieve anything outside of them, or you might simply have decided that there is always next year to try again … isn’t there??
Some people however will be using lots of time and energy in beating themselves up for their failure, once again they have will proved to themselves and to others that they are ‘useless’ And yet they are most often far from it. All they needed was a little support or guidance. Perhaps they simply needed to have a mentor, or an encourager or guide to give them a little support. In reality you only really fail once you stop trying.
My old high school motto is perseverance, which according to Merriam-Webster dictionary means “the quality that allows someone to continue trying to do something even though it is difficult”. Most things worth achieving are difficult. Learning to change can be almost a full time job, if you allow it to become one. Change brings growth, wisdom, rewards, but it also brings unfamiliarity, hesitancy and can sometimes be very scary indeed.
However, in times of change we need to remember that unfamiliarity is not necessarily wrong, it is just unfamiliar. We also need time to rest and absorb the changes so they can become familiar. Whether we are happy or sad, confident or afraid like any emotion, they are simply caused by a thought, so change the thought and you change the feeling / emotion.
For many years I have been helping people to change, whether it be professionally or personally. I have helped people to achieve their goals, dreams and wishes. Each and every one of us has masses of potential. Each and every one of us has the power to change those things we want to change, however we need to know it will not always be easy, though often much easier than expected, sometimes it is scary, but often less scary than staying stuck, and sometimes it just needs a deep breath, the will to pick up a phone or click on a mouse, to start your journey. I and Cate Todd have 47 years’ experience between us, helping people to achieve their goals. Contact us on 01925-658322 or at www.michaelmahoneyhypnotherapist.com to begin your journey. What do you want to achieve today?