When sharing my recipe for achieving goals, I want to start with the biggest goal that I set for myself and describe the way I managed to reach the goal. Of course, as they say “hindsight is 20/20”… so after reading many books on how to get things done, I realize that I had followed the steps without even being aware of them at the time.
When asked what my greatest achievement is, I always say
that moving across the Atlantic and building a life for myself in a country
where I only knew my husband. It may sound crazy, or scary, or too hard. Well,
15 years later, I am here to tell the story. I have achieved numerous goals
since then but still feel this to be the greatest one, since it brought about
the most radical change.
I was born in a small country in South-East Europe, Romania,
in one of its largest cities. After finishing college and working for a couple
of years, I moved to the United States to follow my husband. I was always an
overachiever, I guess people would call me. Through my school years I was
always at the top of the class and passed all my exams with flying colors.
These seemed like reasonable things to do at the time, so I never really
considered these major goals to be achieved. After a scholarship earned in
college that sent me to England for 3 months, I realized there were things I
wanted to achieve and a life style I wanted to live that were outside Romania.
The first step toward achieving my goal was setting it. And the
very first thing to do in this case, was to get the idea – I found the one
major thing I wanted to accomplish: moving to another country to build a career
or a business. At the time this idea first came to mind I had no clue where,
when or how I was going to do this. Looking back I understand that when you are
young everything seems in a far distant future. And that was my first thought.
Once I came home from the college experience in England, I
started sharing first with my parents, then with my friends, my intention to
leave the country after college, at some point. The strange thing about sharing
my goal was that once I started repeating it, I kept getting more certain of
the outcome – still without knowing when, where or how. Because of my college
experience, the first logical choice was England, or somewhere else in Western
Europe. After all, there were a lot of Romanians living abroad in that area,
including a few of my friends. My ultimate goal became moving to the United
States later in life, after some years in another country or two.
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