A Secret Tip To Achieve Your Goals Successfully is simply to believe you can!
Goal planning is not easy. There is a lot involved in figuring out what you can achieve. The most common mistake is not what you think. The most common error in goal setting does not have to do with how you break down the goal. It’s not about the timing of the goal or even the actual outcome of the goal. The most common mistake in goal setting is not believing that you can achieve the goal. Setting a goal you are not confident you can achieve will set you up for failure every time. If you flip that on its head, the most important thing to do when setting a goal is to believe that you can achieve it.
How to achieve a goal successfully: Start with one goal
Start with one goal. It’s hard to focus, dig deep, and believe you will achieve 1 million things. Pick one inspiring goal that you want to achieve and focus on that. That thing will break down into smaller things. So, ultimately you might have more than one goal, but the smaller goals should all ladder up to the big goal. You need to believe you can meet those small goals too. Believing that you can achieve those smaller goals is even more important than belief in the big one. As you achieve those small goals, your belief in completing the big goal gets stronger and stronger.
How to achieve a goal successfully: Set a big goal
Your big goal needs to excite you. When you think about the outcome of your goal, you should get butterflies in your stomach. When you think about achieving your goal, you should feel proud. Your big goal must be something that excites you, and that motivates you. It should be something that leaves you feeling breathless.
If the goal doesn’t give you butterflies, if achieving that goal doesn’t excite you to the point of scaring you a little, then think bigger. You are capable of big things.
Why a big goal?
You need a big goal because you deserve a big outcome. A big audacious goal will pull you to it lightening the load of the work it’ll take to get there. So, don’t invest your time in the small things. Invest your time in big things that move the needle on your heart and soul. The only small things that you should be spending time on are keeping your foundation solid or working towards moving the needle on the big things.
How to Believe
Find Examples
Look for others who have done the same thing. Seeing and knowing it’s possible for that woman over there can be motivating. If no one else has achieved your goal before, don’t fret. You were meant to be the first. The following tips can help.
Find a Tribe
If possible, find a tribe of others looking to achieve something similar to motivate and encourage you and help you continue to believe that you can achieve these things. Their belief in you will bolster your belief in yourself.
Visualize
Visualize yourself having completed the task. Take the time to close your eyes and imagine yourself at the end of your goal, having accomplished it. Feel what it will be like to have succeeded. Reveal in that for a moment. Do this often. Taking time to visualize your success will strengthen your belief in yourself.
Consider it done
Talk about your achievement out loud as if it’s already happened. This will help you to believe deeply in your mind and your subconscious, in your heart and your soul, that you can achieve the goal. Don’t worry, you don’t have to do this in front of others. Just do this with yourself. Each morning before you brush your teeth or o your way to work, tell yourself you’ve already succeeded.
Make sure you are stating your achievement and how you would feel once you have succeeded instead of wishing for it. So, don’t say “I want to lose 10 pounds”. Instead, say, “ I have lost 10 pounds, and I feel amazing!” Or, “I have lost 10 pounds, my health is better, and I’m a better mom because of it!” Maybe it’s “I have lost 10 pounds and I feel sexier.”
Say it out loud as if you have already achieved it and feel those feelings. There’s no reason to feel silly in front of yourself, projecting victory.
Get a cheerleader
A key of how to achieve a goal successfully is to have support. Find a friend and ask them to tell you that THEY believe you can achieve regularly.
Track the progress on your small goals.
As you achieve your small goals, be sure to track your progress and celebrate. Celebrating the small wins is a critical part of believing you can. When you celebrate what you’ve done, you cement in your subconscious positive feeling around believing in yourself.
You Got This!
Mama, you got this! You can do great things! Believe in yourself because all of your life has been leading up to this moment. Your life has been preparing you to achieve your big goal, and now is the time. The most important thing for you to do next is to take action.
Take Action, Now
So, what is your big goal? Right now, at this moment, write it down. Reflect on achieving it. How does that make you feel? Do you have butterflies? Is a huge smile breaking out on your face? Do you maybe even feel relief? Good. Download the goal checklist below to help you get started.
Now, it’s time to go out there and do big things! If you are worried about actually finding time for your goal, check out this article on the most amazing to-do list. This to-do list will help make sure you are spending your time on the big things first.
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