Goal Achievers

Achievement assumes many faces. How will you rate yourself once you have achieved your goal?

Achievers One are achievers who have accumulated fame and fortune but remain unhappy in spite of it. It sounds logical but illogical as well. They have reached the top of their career, the pinnacle of their goal but somehow remain unhappy. They may have everything but the feeling of emptiness looms in their hearts. Perhaps along the way, they may have neglected to look after the welfare of their fellowmen, or worst, may have used their fellowmen to their personal advantage. They may be aware that they did not give their best performance yet still got to the top, a feeling of “I don’t deserve all these” or “I’d rather be poor and happy than rich but unhappy”. They may have forgotten the Almighty Creator played a vital role in their achievement and now they feel loveless, alone; idiomatically and literally speaking.

Achievers Two are achievers who have consolidated everything they have acquired in the course of their endeavor to a rather small in size but vast reservoir of knowledge; their head. Sounds like a wrong place to keep an achievement. They boast about their achievement drawing awe from people they come in contact with. They have virtually enslave themselves to their achievement that nothing else matters to them.

What then are real achievers made of?

A real achiever is defined as one who:

1. Is truly happy and contented with the result or outcome of the goal he/she has aimed to attain no matter how small it is.


2. In spite the contentment, continues to further improve his/her skill and knowledge.


3. Aims for excellence and makes it a limitless endeavor.


4. Remains steadfast and humble or even humbler that he/she used to be in spite of his/her achievement.


5. Have served and will continue to serve his/her fellowmen.


6. Shares his/her talents with others in furtherance of improvement and development.


7. Have not stepped on other’s toes while in the pursuit of their goal.


8. Who remain grateful to the people who have helped him/her attain success.


9. Does not boast of their accomplishment.


10. Have complete faith and trust in God, thanking Him and affirming that his/her achievement is a product of God’s calling he/she acted on.

This seems to be a long list of criteria that is difficult to follow. Actually, it isn’t. Only the achiever can confirm this through his/her honest feeling of how the events led to their success. It is a feeling that no exact word will suffice to describe it, the closest is perhaps gratefulness.

Grateful achievers keep an open mind focused on returning favors they received, not necessarily to the ones who one way or the other have contributed to their success but also to persons unknown to them so long as they see that such persons are truly in need of help in their struggle to succeed. These achievers see themselves in the shoes of the striving persons when they were still striving then and they know how it feels to encounter difficulties along the way.

Helping others, one of the things in achievers, makes life easier for all of us. There is no point in making life difficult for each other. It’s just a waste of time.

Actions like this have a multiplicity effect that contributes to the progress of the nation as a whole. Just like enthusiasm, helping each other is contagious. Because of achievers, what started as a seed is now a tree. No matter how small the help of one person is, it contributes to the success of a nation. Each achiever becomes an asset to his/her country. This is the stuff great nations are made of. Wouldn’t you want to be part of it?

Goal Achievers