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The difficulty of behavioral goals
Behavioral goals are hard to reach because they usually roll around conflicting desires.
Something in you wants to achieve the goal, while something else in you wants to undermine it.
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Conventional striving doesn't always work
Striving isn’t the only strategy when it come to reaching your goals.
Try tracking your behavior without particularly striving to change it. This way, you commit only to tracking the relevant numbers (money spent, calories consumed, miles walked, pages read/written, etc.)
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Grit, determination and victory
The traditional approach to goal accomplishment revolves around the idea of winning most of our inner conflicts. Grit and determination are emphasized as the keys to victory and the positive side should always win.
This approach assumes that there is within us a stockpile of willpower that...
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Stop Thinking Of Goals As All-Or- Nothing
A lot of people set goals that are too big. And most people judge their goals as an all-or-nothing process.
So start by setting a realistic goal that you know how to reach. If and after you achieve it, nothing’s stopping you from taking it to the next level, with all the e...
Problems with goals
- Problem-1: Winners and losers have the same goals, if having really ambitious goals was the only thing then everybody would have won the 100m Olympic race
- Problem-2: Achieving a goal is just a momentary change but having good habits are a lifetime achievement
- Problem#3 → Goa...
Make a Commitment and You will Move Mountain
- If you want to achieve something big then you need to commit yourself.
- Commitment is not just trying hard or making lots of attempts. commitment is “willingness to do whatever it takes” to achieve your objective.
If it takes 5 steps to reach my goal, ...
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