Why do we define them at the beginning of new eras?How long do you want to achieve our goals? It seems that having the beginning of a stage in front of you is one of the best motivations to think about what we would like to change.
Leaving aside the popular goals of weight loss and quitting smoking, which are repeated every year and rarely achieved, there are other goals, perhaps more personal and with a greater weight, now what we can do to make them persist and come. Truth? One of the secrets is to have them close to the vision throughout the year and turn them into concrete actions, that is, in addition to the goal, the way we are going to execute it is clearly defined.
- Turning desires into actions is what gives seriousness and coherence to our objectives.
- Which turns them into seeds to obtain the fruit we want to achieve.
- In this sense having them close to the vision means that we do not forget them or that we are not behind on our scale of priorities.
A study from the University of Scranton, Pennsylvania, showed that 92% of the population did not draft New Year’s resolutions, and one of the reasons was described above: very general planning, with no concrete actions and without clearly seeing what was happening. Get.
The secret to getting what we want is in motivation and making sure it stays in the face of the wear and tear it causes over time. Do I really want to realize what I plan to do?Is it for me that I get what I work for?Do I see myself with opportunities to succeed?
Many answers to such important questions are related to motivation. If I find myself capable, if what I’m looking for is what I want, if I see myself having what I’m working for and if every day it’s designed with small goals and I see progress, even if it is. Minimum day by day, I will feel that this reinforcement compensates for the wear and tear of overcoming the various obstacles that arise.
Internal motivation is the best energy to get closer to what you want, to make a list, in which we invest time and enthusiasm, and then abandon it, it only generates frustration and damages self-esteem, another of the essential elements so that this list does not end in A drawer, or as a decorative element on the wall, is that it has an internal coherence, in addition to being realistic (adapted to my possibilities and resources that I have) and having a unifying basic objective. that is fulfilled. We talk about personal growth.
Propose something new, put aside what you were proposing and what you have not been able to achieve, because suddenly the reason is that the strength, unwillingness or lack to make it concrete and tangible is lacking. It remains to come true, perhaps because it is very general and we forget that goals, to survive, must touch reality.
I suggest you find something to smile about every day, not only the overall goal of being happy, I suggest you don’t set a goal of losing weight, but leave the treats for the weekend and enter three times in the diary to exercise during the week.
Do something this year that you’ve never done before, it doesn’t have to be great things, like paratrooperism, climbing steep mountains or visiting a country on all continents. you know, try unknown dishes, talk to different people, walk in new ways or watch movies I would never have given the opportunity to.
The magic of goals is that they invite us to be better, to continue building our best version and to think about challenges. When you want to move forward and extend what we know, the magic of goals is that you build them.