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April 16, 2010

Goal Achieving Success Secrets

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Goal Achieving Success Secrets by Gillian Pearce

Why is it that even with the best intentions we regularly don’t achieve the goals we establish for ourselves? Could it be we are too ambitious when we establish them? Or that we aren’t ambitious enough and so get bored. Possibly our goals are too fuzzy so it isn’t very obvious what we’re aiming at. Maybe they are not goals we truly wish for anyway, but are things we think we “should” want based on what our boss or our family or culture tells us. If any of these reasons apply to the goals we set then it is going to be an mounting struggle to achieve them.

But let’s assume that the goals we have chosen are ones we’re enthusiastic about and ones we really wish for. Why, then is it that, more often than not we still cannot accomplish them?

Well, there is an inherent dilemma with goal setting and this is it. Goals, are by necessity set for the future. So every time you concentrate on them you are thinking about something you don’t yet have or something you haven’t yet accomplished. And that can have the effect of lowering your mood and reducing your motivation. You are starting from a space of having your well-being be something in the future. You end up feeling so far away from where you want to be that it lowers your self-esteem and can finish up being worse than not having any goals at all.

So what you need to do is work backwards from your end goal and break it down into smaller steps, and then break it up again until you have goals that can be finished in a day. Think of it like a map and then put it to one side.

Choose daily goals that are trackable so that you can write down your successes on a chart or in a diary. For instance, if you wanted to shed 9 pounds by a particular time. Your daily goals could be to go walking, eat four items of fruit, look into healthy recipes and read something inspirational. You might make up a chart to stick on the wall so you can cross off your daily objectives as you accomplish them.

If you realize you are not getting sufficiently close to your final goal by your deadline, change/increase your daily targets. You have total creative control.

This focus on what you are achieving each day creates momentum and self confidence because you will go to bed knowing that you’ve done what you set out to do. You do not have to wait until you attain the end goal and have lost 10 lbs. You will already be a winner, your self worth will increase and, if you keep it up, your end goal is guaranteed.

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