How To Reach Your Target Without Any Shortcuts

Jennifer Hill
4 min readMar 10, 2021

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Life can be unpredictable. With the rush in our everyday life, one thing that we often seek shortcuts. But with the options of shortcuts, can we win with life? Often we talk about doing smart work over hard work, but of course, working hard does not mean that one has to take a shortcut in life.

The only shortcut to reach your target should be working hard on your way to success. Spend time by working on your goal every day. Create a strategy for your target. You might have to start small, but anyone can reach the top if they put their mind and heart into their tasks.

Fortune will always favour the tough! Working the smart and the hard way is essential for you to walk on the steps of success. We have covered the best ways to reach your target without opting for shortcuts in the content given below:

1) Creating A Schedule

Students, entrepreneurs, or the ordinary man, everyone has a target to reach. Be it an assignment you have to finish by the end of the day or a project you have to complete. The targets can be different for every person in the race. But what can make you stand out is discipline.

A disciplined man with a goal in life can never fail. Create a simple timetable. Set down hours for your work. Studies have shown that the brain can focus on about 45 minutes continuously. Take a short break between each piece but try never to break off the routine. Stay consistent. It can be a form of forced disciplined at first but an addiction ahead.

2) Building A Strategy

You have a goal on your mind. But how to reach it? Start with baby steps. One doesn’t have to take a massive leap in one single day. Keep working hard every single day of your life. The end will always be rewarding for you. One might even fail once, twice, or more. Learn from those mistakes but never let them stop you.

Build a strategy on how you plan to reach your goal. Plan out each step. It could be something complicated but never impossible. Below is a list of great Indian CEOs in the world who were once a genius with the idea that people thought would be impossible to achieve. But they did reach it. And the trick behind it all is working on a strategy.

Worlds Top 13 Indian CEOs 2021

1) Sundar Pichai - CEO, Google LLC & Alphabet INC

2) Arvind Krishna - CEO, IBM Group

3) Satya Nadella - CEO, Microsoft

4) Indra Nooyi - CEO, Pepsico

5) Shantanu Narayen- CEO, Adobe Inc.

6) Ajaypal Singh Banga - CEO, Mastercard

7) Rajeev Suri - CEO, Nokia Inc.

8) Padmasree Warrior - CEO NIO US

9) Revathi Advaithi - CEO, Flex

10) Deepak Mandy - CEO, K.V Group, Owner CBD Movers

11) Laxman Narasimhan - CEO, Reckitt Benckiser

12) Sanjay Mehrotra - CEO, Micron Technology

13) Dinesh C. Paliwal - CEO, Harman International

3) Working Hard Every Single Day

Never stop. You might want to get lazy sometimes. Making mistakes is part of the process. And that’s how you will learn from it. But stop will put you a step far away from it. Keep working hard every single day. Think about the happiness that you will achieve when you reach your goal. The magical moment when you will finally stand and knock on the door of success.

4) Write Down Your Steps To Success

Writing down your steps can help. Keep a record of every step you make in your journal can push you forward to achieve your goal. And working hard will always pay off amazingly!

  1. Write down your strategy.
  2. Write down your to-do list.
  3. Write down the resources you will need for your target.
  4. Write down each day how you have worked hard to achieve your target.

Make it a Habit

In the steps mentioned above, we have explained some of the best forms of reaching their target with no problem. Opting for shortcuts can sound like a terrific option, but it won’t help you prosper in the end.

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Jennifer Hill
Jennifer Hill

Written by Jennifer Hill

HI I am Jennifer from Sydney, Australia. I like to play basketball, reading books and travelling with my friends. I work as a an analyst in a well renowned MNC.

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