The Four Most Important Strategies for Getting Anything You Want...

I have always been a go-getter, someone who wants to be the best. And from an early age, I have known that I wanted to do big things with my life. I wanted to be a “Career oriented-Workaholic-Focus on Goals”, one who worked twelve hours a day at a career I loved. I wanted to make lakhs of rupees per year, go on luxury vacations, fall in love, and have it all. So I did what you are supposed to do: I have good managerial skills, Finance fundas knowledge and scored job in finance.

I started to see the key things that can make life so amazing you can’t even believe it’s all real.

1. Be Specific:

I bet you constantly have a list of things you want to do in life running through your head. I know I do: buy a Home, Complete Dream Course …my list goes on. And I’m sure yours does too.

We all have things we want to do but just can’t seem to ever get around to actually doing them. And do you know why that is? Most of the time, it’s because we aren’t asking for specific things.

The first strategy to getting anything you want is: be specific.

Many people, including me, have the tendency to ask for general things. Things like “make more money” or “travel more often” or “lose some weight”.

You need to get way more specific about your goals.

Being specific means knowing what you want. When you want it. Who will be there with you when you get it, and what will life look like once you have obtained it.

Instead of saying “I want to make more money” tell me exactly how much you want to make. How will you feel when you get it? When do you want to be making this amount by? Why this specific amount?

Once you can see your goal in exact detail then you can start to figure out how to get there.

2. Don’t Let Anyone Tell You That You Can’t:

The second strategy to get whatever you want is: don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t.

Whenever someone tells you “you can’t do ______”, what they are really saying is “I can’t do ______ and you make me feel uncomfortable”. It might be your friends or your Relatives… eventually someone is going to tell you that you can’t.

Going after your dreams takes a lot of guts. You are building a life that few people have the courage to live. You travel and own property.

Sometimes other people are not the problem. In a lot of cases, we have an amazing support system in place and everyone is our cheerleader. And the only person who keeps saying “You can’t do it” is yourself.

We come up with excuses and reasons why we can’t. We tell ourselves things like “it’s already been done”, “you aren’t smart enough”, or “you are too old or too young”. And, over time, we start to believe it.

The point is, don’t let anyone or yourself, tell you that you can’t do something.

Instead, think of all the reasons it can work! Think of all the reasons you believe in yourself. Know that you are powerful and in control.

3. Take Action:

One of my Cousin HATES his job as a marketing assistant. He hates every day of his life that he is working. He complains about his boss, the boring work, and the toxic environment at the office. Whenever I ask him what he would rather be doing he says things like “I think I would like engineering but I don’t know”. And when I ask if he has looked into what it would take to be an engineer he says no and then goes back to complaining.

He has never even Googled what being an engineer looks like. All he would have to do is pull out his phone and look at some websites and it could change his life in amazing ways. Yet he doesn’t do anything.

This brings me to the third strategy to getting whatever you want in life: take action.

Nothing happens without some sort of action. You can plan and plan and plan forever but if you don’t do anything about those plans, it will never be. If you are ever feeling stuck it’s most likely because of a lack of action.

Action usually means getting out of the house and actually doing something. But it could also be as simple as Googling a question you have.

Once you start taking some action the universe will bend to make things happen for you. There is nothing that can stand in your way. The missing piece is always action.

If you are stuck spend some time writing down twenty things you could do right now to get one step closer to your goal. Sometimes, just getting the ideas flowing can give you enough moment to get moving.

4. Let it Go:

The final step to getting anything you want in life is: let go.

You need to trust the process, trust yourself, and trust that the universe has your back. You need to decide that you are going to get the life you want and then let it go.

Put all your intentions out into the universe, focus on it, need it, want it. Set out your specific goals, know that you can do it, take that first step and then let it all go.

The letting it go step can be the hardest. If you are anything like me and feel the need to control everything, letting go can be a struggle. But, I promise you, once you go through the steps above and put everything in motion inertia will take over.

As you go through the above steps you will start to see what I mean. Doors will open up for you, you will meet the right people, and things will just happen!

Define your goals, decide that you can, take some action, and then let the universe take over. You will be amazed at what you can do.

(Author: Prathamesh Kakaria)