4 Goals And Motivation Fundamentals To Practice Daily And Create Unbreakable Habits
1. Record your goals.
Write them down, document them on paper, in your project management software, your daily planner, etc.
Place them somewhere you can access them frequently, especially in times of weakness or frustration.
If your goals are in your head, you can ignore them, once recorded you can use them to motivate yourself in those times that you really need to get motivated. Highly motivated people achieve great things..
2. Why do you want your goal? Why is it important to you?
If your goal is part of a larger vision, then it becomes important because it is a stepping stone to your larger life goal. Goals really need to be yours. Not your mother’s, or your friends, or something you feel that others expect from you.
You must desire it, you must want it from a totally selfish perspective, even if it is altruistic. Then you will become self motivated and unstoppable in it’s achievement.
3. Share your goal with other positive and like minded friends or family. They can become cheerleaders for you. Beware of sharing your goal with negative minded or toxic acquaintances. If you let them, they can destroy your dream before you even get it off the ground.
Associate with individuals or groups who can forward your progress. Associate with others who have gone before you, ask them to mentor you, ask them for help and generally they will speed up your goal progress measurably.
Remember this, if you don’t ask, you don’t get. Not my rule, just one of those unbreakable rule of life.
4. If your goal is not realized within the time period you have set, review it’s authenticity.
Do you still want it? Did you ever really want it? If the answer is yes, then re-evaluate your progress and commitment to it’s achievement and time deadline. Then reset it.
If not, then drop it from your program and re-focus on what is important.
When you follow these simple basic goal setting and motivation fundamentals, you will make great progress on your most important goals, and live the life you imagined you could.
Here’s another good article that is still current and by someone who leads by example – 7 Things I Learned About Goal-Setting in 1999