Achieving goals: No. 4 The path to the goal begins with yourself - use your network!

From the multipart series by Susanne Nickel: Achieving Goals! Other people accompany and support us on our way. They are important when it comes to setting sail for new shores and pursuing new goals. Because they give us security and form the network and safety net when we stumble or even fall on the way to our goal. Over the years, a network has surely been woven around you, consisting of people in the family, professional and educational world, and in your personal life. With the following exercise, you will see who is important in your life, who has supported and assisted you, or positively influenced your development. Example: As a girl, dancing was my great passion, and I was determined to make it my profession. In Ludwigshafen am Rhein, where I grew up, ballet was not in vogue. The city mainly thrived on BASF as an employer then and now and was more down-to-earth than creatively shaped. As a new ten-year-old from a working-class family, I, along with two friends, found a ballet school and started dancing. My ballet teacher at the time believed in my talent and supported and challenged me. He had good connections to the theater and dance companies. He introduced me to dancers, and I could learn from the best. My teacher was always there for me and had a big heart. He sent me to the ballet academy. There, I was accepted and could continue my path. Without the network of my ballet teacher and his "belief" in me, I would not have achieved all this. He was one of my important mentors. Who has supported you, and who can support you? Learn from your role models! Our role models can provide us with guidance on the journey to our goal and also inspire us to achieve our goal. They embody something we admire and find desirable. We associate positive emotions with them. Which role models do you have or have had? Whom do you admire, who has inspired you? Take a quiet moment to reflect on one of these role models. What inspires you about this person? To what extent does your role model provide you with guidance? What positive qualities do you particularly appreciate about them? Note everything that comes to mind in a list in your goal diary. And now I invite you to change perspectives: Which of these qualities do you possess yourself? To some extent? In development? A little bit? Also, note the answers in your goal diary. You surely already have a lot to show for yourself, which makes your idol a role model for you. We choose idols and role models because we find something desirable in them. There is something in them and your role model that resonates, otherwise you wouldn't admire this person so much. In resonance, we can only connect with someone who meets a nourishing ground within ourselves in their traits. You can find more tips in Susanne Nickel's book "Achieving Goals: From Vision to Reality," published by Haufe Verlag. For more information on achieving goals and Susanne Nickel, visit here: https://www.speakers-excellence.de/redner/susanne-nickel.html