By María Murillo
Every time you strive to achieve a goal, you should ask yourself, “What is the meaning of achieving it for me?”
Everything that gives meaning to your life becomes the driving force that propels you to achieve what you so deeply desire.
Until you identify the true value behind your own dream—that is, what moves you, what stirs you, what makes you feel alive, what makes your life even more meaningful, what not only gets you out of bed but keeps you energized throughout the day—you will go through life achieving things that “apparently” have been accomplished “successfully.” However, the result is that you continue to feel an inner emptiness because you have simply fulfilled someone else’s desire, a desire that belongs to another person: your parents, your children, your partner, or your boss.
On the other hand, when you clearly identify the MEANING behind YOUR GOAL, you OPEN YOURSELF to hundreds of possibilities that can make you feel fulfilled and satisfied upon achieving it. In other words, it’s not the goal itself that makes it valuable, but the MEANING behind it and what achieving it means to you.
Setting goals with true meaning will not only make achieving them much easier, but you will also fully enjoy the satisfaction of having reached them. You will experience that feeling of accomplishment, and this will bring you much closer to your true Self, consequently attracting positive states of mind. In other words, you will align yourself with your essence of being limitless, capable of being, doing, and having everything you set your mind to each day.
Learn to identify the value that achieving what you set out to do has for you!
