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4 Ways to Know Your Goals Are Too Small | Brian Tracy
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Challenging your abilities
A healthy goal forces us a little out of our comfort zone.
When your goals do not ask you to work harder, maintain a laser focus or get the blood pumping, it’s important to aim a tad higher.
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Creating a substantial life change
Robust goals take your current situation and enhance it to a noticeable level.
Goals that don’t impact you in a meaningful fashion are often too small.
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Inspiring goals
One of the indicators that a goal is too small trails back to your lack of enthusiasm.
Inspirational goals garner your focus and call on your inner self to focus and stay on task. They have a pull that draws your attention and makes you want to achieve.
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Specific goals
Serious goals should include some level of detail, to emphasize your determination to reach them.
A general idea is fine, but you also need specifics: essential details about how to get from today to the day you earn the win.
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Hold the idea of wealth and success in your mind long enough and hard enough, until you draw into your life the resources you need to accomplish it.
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Think BIG But Start Small
Keep your vision in mind, but start wherever you are.
Work back from the future to the present. Make a list of the logical steps, in order, that you need to take to get from where you are to where you want to be. Then figure out what big or small action you can take today.
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Implementation Intentions
They refer to the plan you make about when and where to act before the action occurs.
The format for creating an implementation intention is: “When situation X arises, I will perform response Y.”
Implementation intentions are an effective way of sticking to your goals.
Follow Through With Your Goals
If you make a specific plan for when and where you will perform a new habit, you have bigger chances to follow through.
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Clarity. Have a clear vision of your desires and future to help you stay focused on your goals.
Competence. Commit yourself to doing something that enables you to become better at doing the most important things in your field.
Concentration. Persevere, without diversion or distraction, in a straight line toward accomplishing your goals.
Identifying Productivity Constraints
What restraints you from achieving your goals? Are they learned feelings of helplessness? Or are they just simply excuses? Remember, whatever you have learned, you can unlearn.
If your real goal is to dream big dreams and to live without limits, you can set this as your standard and compare everything that you do against it.