Goal Setting: make profits from your passions

I know I’m not the only one with a love/hate relationship with setting goals and trying to achieve them. I love to set them and hate myself when I don’t meet them.

Am I right? I know deep down you totally agree with me. It’s ok. It can be hard to admit when we fail to hold ourselves accountable and don’t accomplish what we want.

Been there. Done that.

So why do we do it? Why do we put ourselves through that horrible feeling? Why bother to set goals at all?

We set them when we decide our lives need an overhaul.
We set them at the beginning of the year as New Years resolutions.
We set them when there is something we want to accomplish.
We do it because of that promise of something better, the thought of being able to achieve something really meaningful whether it be a new skill or to lose 20 lbs.
We set goals to make a change.

But how often do you set a goal and then fail to follow through, get discouraged and give up, or completely forget about it 3 days later and are on to the next?

You aren’t the only one. It used to happen to me all the time. I would get super excited about something, put a goal in place to reach it, tell people about my super awesome goal and what I was going to accomplish, and then 6 months later realize I was still in the same place as when I started and hoped no one I told remembered.

I felt like a hamster on a wheel running, running, running, and never getting anywhere. The cycle was completely defeating and depressing.

I finally decided enough was enough and I got back to basics. Clarity and focus.

What keeps YOU from reaching your goals?

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