Everything we accomplish in life takes steps. To help us achieve our desires we need to set goals. Here is list of 10 steps that will help you create and achieve your goals.

- Pick One Goal :

This is important! You can only achieve your goals if you focus on them one at a time. Once your goal has been accomplished or made inot a stable habit you can start on the next goal.

-  Start Small and Easy :

The best way to suceed with your first goal is to pick something you are already doing, once in a while, but want to do daily. This will help prepare you to work on future goals. This will build your self confidence as you achieve the goal and help prepare you to work on future goals.

- Simplify :

Choose a small, specific goal or break up larger goals into small pieces that can be done on a daily basis. Big successes start with little ones.

- Write It Down :

Write your goal in large letters and place it where you will see it several times a day. Putting your goal to paper makes it official: You Want It!

- Keep Track Everyday :

This step is very important! If you don’t keep track of your daily progress you won’t progress. Everything we accomplish takes daily steps which turn the goal into a habit.

- You Have To Want It :

Pick goals you want to achieve or change your attitude so you really do want it.

- Schedule Time :

Here are three ideas to help you make time for your goal:

Prioritise: Make time by not doing things that are of less, or no, value.

Say No: Learn to gracefully to say no tho those who asky for your time when you already have too much to do.

Make the Time: You have to MAKE the time or you won’t MAKE the goal.

- Be Firm Yet Flexible :

To achieve your goal you have to be firm with yourself. You have to do the required work to accomplish your goal. You also have to be a bit flexible. Make a backup plan for days when achieving your goal might be difficult. Also, if your goal is something that you want to do six days a week but not on sunday you can pick a similar activity to replace your goal.

-  Be Positive :

Doubting thoughts, and words, will crush your goal. Think and say positive things. A suggestion is to “Talk to Yourself” by picking a positive, “phrase that you will train your mind to focus on at different times through out the day until it begins to dominate your awareness and reshape the person you are.”

- Pray About It :

Choosing righteous goals is just what the Lord wants us to do, so ask for his help. As you daily pray and work to wards your goal you will see daily success.

You will achieve your goals if you honestly follow these steps and daily keep track of your goals. Nothing tastes sweeter than success.

Religion, if followed out of fear, will not take you anywhere; it will not pave the way for a transformation to happen in you. You might progress materially by the faith that you have in your asking, but you will remain where you are at the being level. The purpose or real fulfillment of life can never happen on the material path; it can happen only at the being level.

Religion has to be followed out of deep love and gratitude for the divine or Existence. Although society teaches you to worship God in the name of fear, never do it. Always pray with love and gratitude towards the divine.

Here is a small story:

A Sufi Master, Junnaid, use to pay his gratitude to God five times a day. One time, he and his followers were wandering throught some villages where Sufism was not accepted as a religion.

In the first village, people accused them or begging, and threw meager alms at them. The next day, the people refused to give them any alms. On the third day, the village they passed through was so hostile that the villages drove them out with sticks and stones. That night as usual, Junnaid knelt down and offered his gratitude to God. His disciples were watching him. It was too much for them. They could not understand why Junnaid was thanking God. They were furious.

They cried out, ‘Master! For three days we have gone without food! Today we were even driven out of that village like dogs! Is this what you are offering your gratitude for?’

Junnaid looked at them and said, ‘You talk about three days of hunger! Have you thanked God for the food you have received for thirty years? And know one thing: my gratitude is not for receiving or not receiving anything. It is simply an expression of the deep joy and love in my being; it is a choice-less and prayerful expression, that’s all.’ When youlive with overwhelming gratitude in you, you have found a space wherein nothing else is needed.

It means that you have fallen into meditation. We all simply miss the beauty of Existence when we don’t know how to resonate with it! We are always looking for reasons to enjoy, reasons to celebrate, questioning what we enjoy, and what not! Wh have lost our connetion with Existence altogether because of this.

Instead of feeling gratitude towards everything around us, we are asking and questioning all the time. We need to get back this connection with Existence again. Gratitude can help bring back this lost connection. It can help you find your roots once again. It can help you commune with nature, with Existence.