One of the keys to reach your goals and success is to show determination. To ensure your determination you also need to eliminate any escape routes. In order to stop yourself from abandoning your goals and turning around you need to make going forward more persuasive than turning around. When the difficulties befall us it’s very tempting to retreat and seek the comfort zone. We need to burn our boats to stop us from retreating back to our comfort zone.
Elimination of an escape route is compelling reason to move forward and keep your focus of your goal. It will help you avoid the impulse of going back. When you burn your boats it will increase your motivation because there’s no way back and you will then keep pressing till you achieve what you are headed for. Burning boats doesn’t mean taking wild risks and move forward in a reckless manner or to achieve your goal by hook or crook. Achieving goals requires careful and sensible planning and precisely following through those plans. Every mission has risks involved but those are the risks that make you move forward and not end you up in chaos.
Before you set off on the journey toward your goals and burn your boats, make sure you have the supplies and the tools required to achieve the goal. If you think you need to improve your life and feel you are underpaid for your job, it’s foolish to quit the job before you have found yourself an alternative source of income. Quitting a job without getting hold of another one will leave you with no income, unpaid bills and bankruptcy. If you can get hold of another job before quitting or you create a savings account that will better help you with your journey.
If you want to start something new and you find your other activities or relationships a hindrance for them then abandon those. Burn all the boats and set off for your journey. By burning the boats you will tap into your faith and everything will be in your distinct focus. The steps will follow the path of success. We all have habits and the way of doing things that often hinder us. For example, many students while working on assignments turn on music or TV and eventually get lost in those than focusing on their assignments. People in offices while working often end up on social networking sites like facebook etc. This affects their performance. Burning the boats means keeping such distracting things out of reach while you’re working on the completion of your goal.
Don’t jump on the path of journey without thinking, formulating a process, and having a solid plan. Once you have all these then burning your boats will help you move forward.
Keywords: burn the boats, escape route, turning around, comfort zone, achievement, goals.
