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My blogs thus far this year have focused on setting and achieving goals. I believe this subject is extremely important, because I know that setting goals help us to improve ourselves and reach our potential. For this reason, I will focus my blogs for two more weeks on strategies to help us reach our goals.
Today, I want to offer some simple advice that will help anyone increase their chances of reaching their goals but especially will help those who have repeatedly failed when setting goals. The following are four good ideas to finally help the perpetual underperformer accomplish their goals:
# 1 Narrow it Down
Often we think we have to set several goals to be successful; however, this is not true. If you’ve struggled to achieve your goals, then simplify by narrowing your list to one goal. Accomplishing one goal that is truly important to you is much better than setting 10 goals without coming close to reaching even one of them. Many times, having too many goals at once can be distracting and can cause unnecessary frustration, stress and hopelessness. So instead of trying to do it all, focus on one goal that is most important to you. Once that one is realized, you can then move to another. Simplifying the goal achievement process by narrowing your list to one goal will help you become a successful goal achiever and ultimately a better you.
#2 Break it Down
Another mistake goal seekers often make is they strive to accomplish a big goal too fast. I strongly encourage people to set big stretch goals;however often by setting these goals, people get overwhelmed and lost, not knowing where to begin or what step should be taken next. To help, it is a great idea to break down big, audacious goals into simpler steps. For example, if my big goal was to write a book, perhaps my goal would be to complete an outline, as setting a goal to write a book seems very overwhelming. As we break down our big goals, it will provide more clarity and direction, motivating us more while helping us progress and believe our big goals are possible.
# 3 Be Honest
When setting goals, if we want to increase our chances of success, we must be true to ourselves. This means we must set goals we truly want to achieve. Many times people are conditioned by society to set certain goals regardless if they truly want to accomplish them or not. Just because a particular goal is trendy or popular, if you don’t really want it, then don’t set it. Setting goals that you are not passionate about or do not have a great desire to achieve is not worth it, because the probability of actually obtaining it is low. To be successful, we must be honest with ourselves by setting goals based on what we want to accomplish and not based on influences outside of us.
# 4 Don’t Delay
Once a goal is set, do it! Don’t procrastinate or put a goal off. If you have been honest with yourself and have set a goal you really want to accomplish, then don’t let yourself be distracted. This may mean you will have to shift priorities in your life or eliminate certain activities or let some things go undone, but this is OK. Too often we allow the unimportant to rob us of our time; however getting to work right now on your goal will quickly diminish distractions. The quicker we act, the less time we will have to find something else to do. Learn to say “no” to activities that will not help you in accomplishing your goal.
These four simple strategies will help anyone who has struggled in the past to reach their goals. Learning to narrow down, break down, and be honest without delaying will help even perpetual underperfomers to be successful in achieving goals. And achieving our goals will help us accomplish our dreams!
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