The Importance of Your Mental Health In Achieving Your Goals

You know, if you are seriously contemplating making a breakthrough in achieving your goals, you gotta take care of things hindering you now. You've got to get your known hindrances under control, or at least, manageable. You know what those are and unless you erase them from your way, achieving your goals will take forever to happen. Sure, you will make some minor improvements in your environment, but the major ones won’t really surface as long as those blockages remain.

OVERCOMING DAUNTING CHALLENGES

Mental health is important

I am a firm believer in the inherent ability of the human organism to adapt to any circumstance. I have also seen the indomitable will of human desire survive and overcome “Impossible” challenges. Our childish desires to walk are responsible for our mobility, despite the daunting challenges of those first steps. The falls, the bumps and bruises notwithstanding, everyone now accepts walking as naturally inevitable. But the toddler’s desire to change its environment made it blind to the impending dangers, the bumps and bruises, of learning to use its feet. In your quest to achieve your goals, you have to develop iron-willed mental determination, just like a toddler transitioning to walking.

 MANAGING  EMOTIONAL THREATS

We are similarly faced with our share of hills to climb in our quest to overcome our circumstances. As adults, one of those impediments is our health - mental and physical. It’s easy to take medication for medical ailments, like a cold, for example, but it’s not that simple to treat those emotional threats of which only we are aware. I am speaking of our self-perception and feelings of inadequacy. Sometimes these imperceptible blockages are much stronger than the physical limitations facing us in our quest to achieve our goals. I will say right here that you've got to take care of your health problems, real or imaginary, if you want to achieve your goals.

 HOW TO HANDLE LIMITATIONS

Some of our “limitations” are directly tied to things we can fix, like  illiteracy. Learning to read will fix that. Alcoholic problems and drug addictions require more stringent solutions, but they can be fixed too. Feelings of inadequacy -”I don’t deserve that “ or “I ain't good enough” are tied to behaviors that sabotage our efforts to improve our lives. Whatever those behaviors are, we’ve got to get rid of them. Focus on the environmental change we want, just like the toddler. Do whatever it takes to change your mindset. Become blind to everything else but the breakthrough you are after in your life. Unlike the toddler, we can read books, listen to tapes and watch videos of the information we lack. Lose weight if you need to. Nothing must be more important than the goal you want to achieve, or else it becomes tougher than it needs to be. Sometimes, you simply need to change your clothing style. Whatever your blockage, fix it. Make yourself happy with the person you see in the mirror. Because when you do, that is the time of your breakthrough and no-one can stop you from achieving your goals!