Goal Setter Blog

• eat less


• exercise more


• do both of the above

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Seriously - Beyond our genuine willingness to act there are some goals in life which are hard or impossible to reach.

Goals need to be qualified to be achievable. They need to be broken down into milestones which make the journey more predictable. If you set out on a 1,000 miles drive you wouldn't hit the highway just the same as if you were going down the road to buy milk and bread.

You would inquire about the weather in order to decide which clothes to pack. You would take a bag in order to stay overnight some place. You would take a map to plan your route. You would fill up with petrol. You would check the tyres, the oil dipstick and clean the windscreen. You would perform all those tasks undeterred because you know each one is a component into reaching the end goal. You would know what to do because as a child your parents took you on vacation and you have been on long road trips before. So how can we translate this to unreachable goals like losing weight or getting rich? It's very difficult to go on a journey where you've never been before. I'm not talking about physical travel here but about the process of breaking down obstacles which block the path to your goal.

A goal in itself can have little or no appeal. What really turns you on are the benefits of reaching the goal. So the first question to ask yourself is: "Why do I need to reach this goal?" As obvious as it may seem, you need to document each of the benefits of achieving your goal.

Because the benefit of a given goal can be different from one person to the next the means to reaching that goal also can be different from one person to another. Do not be a copycat. Write your own story. But do not operate in isolation either. Seek out people who have trodden down that path before - especially those who reached their destination. Those who floundered along the way will be jealous if you dare to try or worse even succeed where they failed.

Setting out on a worthwhile and well documented goal is entering into a contract with yourself. Are you worthy of your word?

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