Goal Setting Is Hard Work!
Thinking is hard work. Therefore, it follows that Goal Setting can be hard work.
But, it is definitely an extremely powerful tool in your life planning and merits the time and effort you put into it. How will you know if you are successful if you haven’t decided on what you want? It is just about the most important thing you can do for yourself, if you truly want to be successful in your life.
You can create your ideal future and motivate yourself to turn negatives into positives through taking the long term view. It doesn’t matter if your goals are small or large, just that you know what makes you happy.
It is good to keep in mind that when it comes to personal goal setting you are basically setting the direction to your life.
You are writing out your life plans and you are making commitments to how you want your life to be. You must be courageous in making these decisions. Many give up right there, and quit prematurely.
There is a process to setting goals, and you will need to complete the process for each and every personal goal. No one ever said that setting goals would be easy, but few will tell you how hard it can be.
Not the planning, it’s making the decisions that you will pursue those things that you have determined that will make your better by achieving them, that’s the difficulty for many.
Thinking is just about the hardest work anyone can do, but the rewards are so worth it. So please don’t put this off.
Planning is vital in every undertaking you set out on. Yet you will find that your plans rarely go as planned or as you want them to. But, just the fact that you get to determine your actions in advance will save you time and effort in the long run. It is the faster route to getting what you want out of life.
Understand this point. More often than not, you will need to be flexible enough to react to changing situations, and think and act on the fly so to speak. But . . . it is still worth completing the planning stage.
Set your path with short term milestones to each long term goal, and re-check your goals every day.
Many people neglect to review their goals frequently, and this can be disastrous to the effectiveness of your new goal setting program. Without keeping your goals in front of you so you can review your progress, you can get off track so easily and waste that precious time that it takes to complete your goal.
Work at it. Keep your goals right in front of you, revise them until you can visualize yourself clearly enjoying the benefits they are bringing to you.
We are creatures of habit, so let’s make those habits serve us not destroy us. If a current habit is not serving us, we need to rethink our actions and create another habit which empowers our goals journey. Create those new habits that will propel you towards what you want.
A goal out of sight generally means out of mind, and the result is that our focus can be easily distracted away from getting our goal to the possibly more negative events staring us in the face at any given moment.
We must focus on the prize not on the process, when things get tough.
When it comes to goal motivation you will find that the success of a goal will be such an emotional high that it will enable and increase your self-confidence as you progress towards the next goal.
You will absolutely find that the success in one goal actually helps push you to reach your next goal. Momentum is hugely critical and beneficial. Inertia can be deadly.
When goal setting, take others into consideration. Include your family in on the goals that you wish to achieve. As long as they support your goals program, your power will be exponentially increased.
Clearly define your goals, your responsibilities, and what they can do to help you, so that as a team there is no blurry line. There will be times where you will get off track, and they can help you reaffirm why you are doing all this.
Supportive people around you can help to insulate you from otherwise damaging or overwhelming negatives.
All in all, goal setting is hard work and many will not take the time to do it properly.
So, don’t let that person be YOU.
Don’t you become one of them, those who watch others do.
The pain of regret weighs pounds and the pain of effort only ounces, so do the work and save yourself all that grief. You can happily achieve your goals, and love the life you are creating for yourself, as you create it! Go for it!