If you choose a goal that's not worthy, you'll try hard to concentrate on it, but you'll invariably get distracted. That's not because the distractions are powerful; it's because your goal is powerless. If your goal offers you unconditional joy or leads to your freedom and liberation, you will never be distracted.
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Questioner: If I make a goal in life then how do I stick to it? How do I keep myself focused towards the goal?
Acharya Prashant: Choose the goal properly. Let the goal be so compelling that the goal itself is a defense against distractions. If you choose a goal that's not worthy enough, it makes no sense to stay concentrated on it. You'll try a lot to concentrate on your goal but you'll find that invariably you get distracted after a while. That's not because the distractions are powerful. That's because your goal is powerless. So, the goal has to be right.
Don't talk so much about how you get distracted. Talk about how, first of all, you have made something your goal.
How has something become your target? How have you come to desire something? If your goal-setting process is influenced from the outside, then your goal would never really be your own goal. And, therefore, you will never feel internally, totally committed to it.
