Goals, intentions, dreams, wants.  I think most of us spend some part of each day in our own heads thinking to ourselves about things that we would love to do if we had the time, the money, the willpower. 

Or maybe you can relate more to living in fear of trying them out?  We don’t try because we don’t want to end up disappointing ourselves.  We worry that we aren’t good enough, clever enough, fast enough, or even deserve a success.

My sense of adventure continually draws me towards new projects and experiences.  In 2010 I joined a local karate class after years of thinking about what it would be like to be able to do karate and here I am now, 8 years on, a black belt.  I bought myself some quad roller skates for my 40th birthday despite not skating since age 13, and here I am skating confidently and am now learning to skate backwards.  At the age of 45, I enrolled in University and am now knee-deep in textbooks and deadlines but I will complete my degree, a goal I have always yearned for since 1988 when I left school.

You will notice that these intentions go back several years, mostly all to when I was 13-16 years old.  And now I am my 40’s I am now moving the goals forward.  So what changed, what did I realise and how did I do this?

The secret to achievement is hidden in your every day to day routine.

I changed.  I changed my outlook and realised that age is just a number and it does not pre-determine what I will or won’t do.  Then I set about breaking everything down into manageable pieces.

Do something each and every day to move forward to where you want to be, want to you want to achieve. And then take the enormity of the project one day at a time. Do something, however small it may seem, towards your end goal each and every day.  Write into your diary, book an appointment in your phone reminders app and then get started each and every day.  Remember – there is NO age limit.  We can get started on any goal at any age.

What I have found is the little pieces of daily effort suddenly add up to a lot of work and you are fast on track to successfully achieving.  Plan your day accordingly and your dreams will come true.