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How to find inspiration in everyday life
How to stay motivated
How to cultivate a positive mindset
Goals Is Important
Many incredibly successful people set a huge goal... and then focus all their attention on the process necessary to achieve that goal.
The goal is most important, but once set, a goal's real importance is to inform the process created and followed to achieve that goal.
Then, once you have a process in place, put all your focus on what your process says you need to do today.
That's how you improve. But that's also how you find additional motivation -- and additional happiness.
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The key
Set a goal. Then create a process that helps you learn that new skill or tackle that big challenge. Sure, the effort will be stressful.
But think about the positives.
Every day you will get to feel good about yourself. Even if you never quite achieve everything you set out to achiev...
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Theory
According to Ryan Howell, assistant professor of psychology at San Francisco State University:
'No pain, no gain' is the rule when it comes to gaining happiness from increasing our competence at something. People often give up their goals because they are stressful, but we found that there ...
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What the research say :
what striking is that you don't have to reach your goal to see the benefits to your happiness and well-being.
That means you get to feel better about yourself today -- and you get to feel better about yourself for years to come.
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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...
How to Set More Attainable Goals
The key is that you take a look at your broken resolution and try to determine why it wasn't attainable. Once you do that, you may be able to set more achievable goals.
Additionally, try to start small with a goal that you know you can achieve and then gradually w...
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...
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