Your goals must be worthy of you – your time, your effort, your energy, your mind.
Worthy goals are goals that can change your life for the better, forever. Most importantly, the goal must make you happy.
Do you wish that your goals were on auto-pilot?
Nice goals finish last......
The nice goals are rarely achieved, but bad-ass goals that will make your life hell, unless you accomplish them, will get accomplished. It’s not like that there is any other option, really (unless you like living in hell
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This is what I do:
Quick checklist:
What gets measured, gets done. Just the fact that you are systematically tracking your progress (and reporting it to someone) will make you infinitely more likely to accomplish your goal. Putting in the actual work is usually the hard part!
Worthy goals are goals that can change your life for the better, forever. Most importantly, the goal must make you happy.
Do you wish that your goals were on auto-pilot?
Nice goals finish last......
The nice goals are rarely achieved, but bad-ass goals that will make your life hell, unless you accomplish them, will get accomplished. It’s not like that there is any other option, really (unless you like living in hell
.This is what I do:
- Choose a worthy goal.
- Double-check that you really, really want it.
- Commit to it like a madman. (The tricky part – the commitment)
- Plow through like a Klingon. No looking back.
- Celebrate.
Quick checklist:
- How badly I want it? (Nothing less than “Real bad” won’t cut it!)
- Do I want it, or it’s my boss, spouse, or parents that want it? If it’s not I who wants it, full-stop! I’ve recently finished reading the great classic Atlas Shrugged, and I think it’s no coincidence everyone who wanted to live in the Atlantis valley (while the world was falling apart) had to make this oath: “I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
- Do I actually want it, or do I want to want it? This happens to me when I’m scared to get out of my comfort zone in a particular area of my life in order to grow in it, so I’m choosing goals in safe areas where I’m already getting good results.
- Can I accept the consequences? If it’s a big goal, my life will probably be quite different once I accomplish the goal. Am I ready to accept all the consequences?
What gets measured, gets done. Just the fact that you are systematically tracking your progress (and reporting it to someone) will make you infinitely more likely to accomplish your goal. Putting in the actual work is usually the hard part!
