You feel really motivated and you set goals for yourself in personal and professional areas of your life. You feel driven, motivated, and pumped about achieving your goals! BUT, as you progress through the day life happens! Unexpected circumstances arise, deadlines creep up, and you gradually drift off your path of achieving goals and before you know it, you are stuck amidst managing various responsibilities and the uncertainties that come with it. A few days/ weeks pass by and you get this bout of energy and motivation again to create and achieve goals. And now you're stuck in this cycle.
Do you ever wonder why this happens? Let me help you shed some light on this situation.
Creating and
setting goals for yourself is important to start the process, but following through with it is "necessary" to successfully complete the process. And a few things are inevitable in the process of
goal setting and achievement, i.e. obstacles and uncertainty. And guess what, we were never taught to deal with the obstacles as much as we were taught to
set goals.
Here are some principles to help you deal with the obstacles in your way of achieving your goals!
1. Review and Recalibrate - Don’t take the same approach towards achieving your goals after you face a setback in your goal achievement journey. Analyze what went wrong and recalibrate your approach after each setback.
2. Create SMART goals - Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic and Timebound. Your goals should pass the SMART test for you to successfully achieve your goals.
3. Be in a state of FLOW - The goals that you choose must ensure that you continue to stay in a state of flow. This happens when the goals you set, match your abilities. If the goal is too easy to achieve, you will become complacent. If it is too hard, you might lose motivation. But if it is challenging yet achievable, then you are in a state of flow. This ensures that you consistently achieve your goals and grow exponentially over a period of time.
Put this into practice and see the results for yourself! Good luck
