The most important part in the journey of success is deciding what we have to do, setting the aim. If you set your aim, half of the job is done. Rest is just to have faith and put your 100% in striving your aim till you attain what you desire. You have to be cautious while setting your heart on something, because even if you reach the destination, you might not be contented and feel something lacking in your life. So, it’s better to be shrewd to avoid wrong end of the stick while you hit the road instead of having any kind of remorse when your journey comes to an end.

Following are a few things that you should consider while setting your aim :

1 : Follow Your Passion

Following your passion is the key to success, and if an individual does something about what one is not passionate, then he will only have nine-to-five attitude towards it, and will not able to work with his full potential.

“Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don’t let anyone limit your dreams.”

― Donovan Bailey

2 : Aim High

One should not be afraid of aiming high, even if he aims what others can’t even think of achieving in their wildest dreams. You should be as bold as brass while setting your aim.

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

― Bruce Lee

3 : Not Afraid Of Failures

One should be bold enough to embrace failure, even if everyone else has failed in that work, because you are not everyone. One should not get heart in one’s mouth, seeing uncertainty in achieving their aim.

“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.”

― C. S. Lewis

4 : Long Term Goal

A long term goal is very important in odyssey of success, because if we have a long term goal there is very less chance of getting deviated from that path. Long term goal helps us to intensify our vitality at one single point.

“Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.”

― Carl von Clausewitz

5 : Short Term Goals

Expedition doesn’t consist of just a starting and an ending point, there are milestones in every journey. Long term goal needs to be divided into short term goals for enhancing efficiency and effectiveness of strategy.

“You can’t grow long-term if you can’t eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what management is.”

― Jack Welch

6 : Strategy

We just simply don’t set our Aim by listening to some fairy tail story, we should always have a strategy or an effective plan to accomplish our objective. Having a strategy helps us avoiding himalayan blunder and a way which we need to follow.

“Every battle is won before its fought.”

― Sun Tzu

7 : Aim should keep you Self Motivated

Set your aim such that it should motivate you, rather someone else coming and motivating you.

“When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breathe then you will be successful.”

― Eric Thomas

8 : Don’t let Others Influence

Generally after setting our aim, we have to face criticism, everyone tries to guide us what’s wrong and right according to them, but it’s always better to follow your own instincts.

“The people who influenced me most were the people who said I would never make it. They gave me a thirst for revenge.”

― Colin Mochrie