Goal Formulation: BE SWIFT ON OPPORTUNITIES!

Before reading this you, hopefully, understand what it means to build on a burden, seek God’s direction and keeping your goals to yourself. These steps are very important in goal achievement. I would proceed on how to formulate your goals. From a point of view, I would be writing on preparation for goal achievement.

TAKE OPPORTUNITIES PROMPTLY: some of the best hunters of the animal kingdom are extremely fast - the Peregrine Falcon (200+ mph), the Cheetah (70 mph), the Lion (50 mph). They need this speed to catch up with some rather fast prey – like the Antelope and Wildebeest. When the Falcon spots its prey it swoops down at it and hit it before it realizes what has come on it. This speed makes it possible for the Falcon to hunt even other birds in flight.

If you would succeed in goal achievement you must be able to swoop on opportunities with great speeds. We, more often than not, debate within ourselves and with others about what to do with opportunities when they come. Your goals will seem unattainable if you must set up a committee every time you meet an opportunity. King Solomon observed that, “The fastest runner does not always win the race,” but it sure helps to be the fastest.

Develop the features that make for speed. Fast animals (or people) do not fly around with huge baggage strapped to their backs. They travel light. My advice is that you drop-off everything that weighs you down – it may be failures of the past or a low self-esteem – no matter what they are, drop them now so you can fly swiftly toward your next opportunity.

Develop focus. When the Cheetah goes hunting it does not try to get all the animals in the herd. It focuses on one and isolates it. When it begins its chase it goes only after that one prey ignoring every other one. Our problem is that we often go after one too many things at a time. This causes internal division and we end up not achieving our goals.

Develop the glide effect. By this I mean that all your various goals should align toward one direction. The dive of the Falcon is enabled by the way its feathers align themselves, thereby reducing its surface area, and giving it that glide effect. Multi-directional goals are to a person what ruffled feathers are to a Falcon – they create friction and reduce your speed.