All too often we get caught up in how we should go about achieving a specific goal. We decide that we need to make something definite happen and then focus our efforts on what is required to accomplish task.

More important than knowing how to make something happen, is knowing why you want to make it happen.

Knowing why will keep you focused; give you strength when you need it, and keep you in action when you are tempted to quit.

An example of this would be, “I want to be rich.” You have a winning lottery ticket and want to make your moderate winnings work for you.

You decide to start reading real estate investment books, studying stock quotes, and enroll in a taxation course so you can learn how to take advantage of all loopholes.

A few months go by and you get bored with routine of studying and learning. A friend offers you opportunity of a lifetime … a month-long trip to Europe, and for a mere $25,000.

You had planned on using your lottery winnings for creating wealth, but commitment is exhausting and you could really use a vacation.

You cash in your savings and take trip.

Once you’re back home, you have great stories to tell and memories to hold on to, but after a month or two, you become disheartened because you feel you are back on bottom rung of ladder and have to start all over again if you want to create any kind of wealth.

Unfortunately, overcoming shyness is rather difficult. You want to meet people, mingle at parties, ask out that certain someone. However, closer you get to talking to someone, harder it becomes until you are so nervous that your confidence fails you as you try to slip in a word. Then you walk away, feeling like you are some sort of failure. This feeling of inadequacy does not actually help you next time, though. In fact, it just makes it more likely that you will freeze up next time, since you have become used to shying away when you want to be speaking.