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How to move a mountain

When a person decides to make changes in their life they always start of well but because of the lack of results they quickly lose their way, get bored and stop. We are all guilty of this, at different points in our lives and it doesn't matter who you are the only way to  achieve  your goals is  to be  smart about it. The failure is there right from the start, the goal setting. We look at the task whether it is weight loss, academic achievement, career progression and we set ourselves a target. "By next year I will be a size 10". "In two years I want to run  my own department ", "I want to get a PhD by the time I am 25 researching a cure for cancer,". These are all great ambitions and when achieved will make for great achievement, however these goals are just like the idea of moving a mountain. It's a grand ambitions but in itself insurmountable.  Confucius  said :“The man who  moves a mountain  begins by carrying away sma...