This article explains how to move beyond planning and finally take consistent action to make your goals happen in real life.
Join me for a brief trip back to the start of this year: You're thrilled. You're driven. You have high hopes for the upcoming year. You decide you want to be extremely ambitious this year due to your intense passion. Additionally, you set yourself some ambitious stretch objectives . You convince yourself, "This year is going to be fantastic." "I'm actually learning how to accomplish goals this year."
Let's now fast-forward to a few months (or longer) into the year.
How are you doing with your annual objectives?
Have you disassembled them? Have you developed programs and plans that will assist you reach your objectives?
Since you set your yearly objectives at the beginning of the year, have you really looked at them?
Have you divided those annual objectives into monthly objectives? Weekly objectives? Daily objectives?
And are you doing the most crucial thing you can do right now to get closer to achieving your biggest objectives?
If you answered "no" to any of the aforementioned questions, I would suggest that the most crucial thing you can do right now is to read this article and heed the practical advice it contains. Here's how to begin.
Lack of action is the biggest obstacle people have while attempting to figure out how to achieve their goals.
Why do so many of us establish lofty objectives but never follow through?
You are not the issue. It's not that you can't accomplish your objectives—you can.
The initial goal-setting process is the source of the issue.
The following are the reasons why people don't accomplish their objectives and don't act consistently to make them a reality:
1. They just make goals once a year and don't review them frequently enough.
2. They don't divide large objectives into smaller ones that must be accomplished in a short amount of time.
Take greater action to achieve your goals. Reduce the length of your timetable to take more action.
The easiest method to accomplish your largest objectives is to divide them into a number of smaller ones, set them inside a constrained timeframe, and work tirelessly to accomplish the smaller objectives, which will gradually help you reach the larger one.
This is what I mean when I say that it's difficult to imagine accomplishing a significant annual goal in a single day, but your mind believes it must do so when it perceives a significant objective on its own. It believes it must defeat a massive, year-sized goal in a single blow. However, it gives up because this would be practically impossible.
However, your brain sees a route to success if you take that major yearly objective and make a timeline of chores (starting today) that gradually build to your big yearly goal.
What your intellect cannot see, it cannot accomplish.
It's similar to entering a completely dark room. When you first enter, there is nothing to see. However, once you flip the light switch, you are able to see. Suddenly, everything is clear and the room is flooded with light.
Lining up your dominoes and knocking them down one by one until you reach your ultimate goal is the essence of Goal Setting to the Now.
Assume, for instance, that your ultimate objective is to read fifty novels annually. This is how you would reduce your schedule and nail down the tasks to make this something you are likely to do.
What’s the ONE thing I want to do someday?
Develop the habit of reading 50 books per year for the rest of my life.
Based on my Someday Goal, what’s the ONE thing I can do in the next 5 years?
In order to achieve my goal of reading 50 books per year for the rest of my life, I must read 250 books within the next five years.
Based on my Five-Year Goal, what’s the ONE thing I can do this year?
In order to achieve my five-year goal of reading 250 books, I must read 50 books within the next 12 months (one year).
Based on my One-Year Goal, what’s the ONE thing I can do this month?
Based on my Monthly Goal, what’s the ONE thing I can do this week?
Based on my Weekly Goal, what’s the ONE thing I can do today?
Since the average book is about 250 pages in length, in order to achieve my weekly goal of reading a book a week, I must read approximately 36 pages per day.
In order to achieve my daily page-count, I will block off one hour of dedicated reading time at 8:00 AM each morning on my calendar.
What is the ONE thing I can do at this moment based on my Daily Goal?
I'm on target to reach my Someday Goal of reading 50 books annually for the rest of my life, so give myself a pat on the back for finishing my morning reading!
To reach your Someday Goal, all you have to do now is knock down each domino. Shouldn't that keep you somewhat busy?
The secret to truly achieving your largest goals in any aspect of your life is to break them down and shorten your timeline. This will allow you to accumulate numerous tiny victories that will eventually lead to the accomplishment of the larger goal, even though it may seem repetitive or even too simple.
– Establish a long-term objective for yourself first, or use one you've already established but haven't yet reached.
– Divide your objective into manageable steps.
– Use Goal Setting to the Now to fit those actions within a condensed schedule.
| [1] | ^ | Harvard Business Review: The Stretch Goal Paradox |
| [2] | ^ | Dean Bokhari: Action Leads to Motivation |
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