It can be tricky knowing how best to go about setting goals in your life.
In this podcast I describe why goal setting is useful, why different motivations cause different outcomes and a practical way to get started.
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Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label goals. Show all posts
Thursday, 23 January 2014
Wednesday, 6 January 2010
New Resolutions looking a bit battered?
Since around 2001, I have been on a journey exploring the world of personal development. I have worked with NLP, hypnosis, EFT and other techniques first to change me and then to show others how they might change.
Traditionally this is the time of year when people make new commitments to make a positive change in their life. From dropping a bad habit to dropping a dress size, it is the New Year that has us resolving to make a change.
Most of these resolutions get broken within days, old habits are restarted and months may roll by before a new start is made.
So here is an alternative idea for you; commit to making a change even though you might fail. Commit to making a change even though you may not know how you will achieve your goal. Think about a child learning to walk, we KNOW that at first they will fall over (fail), and yet we will help them up as many times as required UNTIL they learn to walk.
We never say "Well that's it, this baby is never going to walk!"
We keep going UNTIL it happens.
So if your new year resolution has already taken a battering, pick yourself up, start again and keep going UNTIL your reach your goal. You'll get there eventually.
Traditionally this is the time of year when people make new commitments to make a positive change in their life. From dropping a bad habit to dropping a dress size, it is the New Year that has us resolving to make a change.
Most of these resolutions get broken within days, old habits are restarted and months may roll by before a new start is made.
So here is an alternative idea for you; commit to making a change even though you might fail. Commit to making a change even though you may not know how you will achieve your goal. Think about a child learning to walk, we KNOW that at first they will fall over (fail), and yet we will help them up as many times as required UNTIL they learn to walk.
We never say "Well that's it, this baby is never going to walk!"
We keep going UNTIL it happens.
So if your new year resolution has already taken a battering, pick yourself up, start again and keep going UNTIL your reach your goal. You'll get there eventually.
Thursday, 22 October 2009
A quick thought on goals
I'm paraphrasing some comments from Brian Tracey here but they seem to make a lot of sense to me.
The reason why people don't write their goals down is because it becomes concrete in your subconscious and then must be acted on. We fail to write it down because of a fear of failure, if you don't write it down that won't happen (bit neither will you achieve your goals).
Only 3% of the population have written goals, only 5% have any goals at all. Would you like to guess if they do better or worse than the average in terms of life outcomes?
Yep, you guessed it they do LOTS better.
The reason why people don't write their goals down is because it becomes concrete in your subconscious and then must be acted on. We fail to write it down because of a fear of failure, if you don't write it down that won't happen (bit neither will you achieve your goals).
Only 3% of the population have written goals, only 5% have any goals at all. Would you like to guess if they do better or worse than the average in terms of life outcomes?
Yep, you guessed it they do LOTS better.
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