The higher you set the bar, the more difficult you set the objective, the more you are activated and so the more you will accomplish. It’s up to you to decide how high the bar will be set and how you prepare yourself for overcoming it. Don’t complain if you think you are under-achieving, it was your decision to do so in the first place. The tendency is to set the objective at a level that is already within our grasp and so keep everything nice and quiet, but that’s not very exciting or fulfilling and we probably won’t get very far.
Muscles are grown by being torn. The tearing allows for the muscles’ cells to grow, so making the muscle larger. Accomplishing this however, is stressful and requires enormous effort over a period of time. But the muscle will grow. Similarly with your objectives, if you set them high enough, there will be stress, there will be turmoil and pain, but once you come through that you will be strengthened to set even greater objectives next time. So a cycle of ever greater accomplishment is set in motion. And that’s not to mention the feeling of elation which accompanies the achievement of something tough.
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You know you are absolutely right about this one. I, for one, have many goals and objectives that I want to accomplished. Some of them are very high but I say why not. I want the best things in my career and in my life. The only limitations that exists are the ones that we put onto ourselves. I am willing to do everything that i can to obtain my goals. I am the creator of my own destiny.
it’s like a Elia Kazan said, you’ve got to risk your life at least once every six months.
Did he say that? Then why was he booed at the Oscars one year?
I think that was more to do with politics – he talked during the Macarthyite hearings in the 1950s.
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