I’m a big proponent of goal setting. It’s a better activity than setting resolutions, and you can do it at the start of the New Year, month or week, or even every morning. But most people don’t achieve their goals, and there are three reasons why.
The #1 Reasons You Won’t Achieve Your Goals
Achieving your goals requires a willingness to change. Change isn’t easy. Sometimes it feels like a struggle. Or you might feel like change is uncomfortable or requires sacrifice.
Most people don’t achieve their goals because they possess an unwillingness to struggle, sacrifice or change. That unwillingness prevents them from taking the necessary action to create what they desire.Â
Are you willing to change, struggle, feel uncomfortable, or sacrifice if it means you create what you desire professional, personally or both? If you answer “no,” you won’t achieve your goals. If you answer “yes,” your chances of success increase tremendously.
The #2 Reason You Won’t Achieve Your Goals
Achieving your goals requires a positive attitude. You may think you are willing to do whatever it takes to succeed, but become conscious of your thoughts and words. Do they correspond with that willingness or sound like complaints instead?
Many people don’t achieve their goals because they their thoughts and words focus on the negative aspect of what they must do to succeed. Or they focus on the challenges they must overcome to achieve their goals.
If you complain about the difficulties you perceive as preventing you from achieving the next level professionally or personally, you will have a difficult time achieving your goals. If, however, you speak about the necessary tasks or changes with excitement and enthusiasm and see them as opportunities, you dramatically increase your chances of success.
The #3 Reason Your Won’t Achieve Your Goals
Finally, if you aren’t enthusiastic about your goals, you won’t achieve them. Setting goals you feel resolved to achieve rather than excited to achieve provides a recipe for failure.
Do your goals make you want to get out of bed each day and tackle them—even if they are hard? If so, you are on your way to success. If not, it’s time to choose new goals.
The New Year has arrived. Create your best year ever with the willingness, attitude, and enthusiasm to achieve your goals.
Have you noticed any reasons why you do or don’t achieve your goals?
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Thanks so much for this!
I am working on my goals right now and did actually write my first introductory post to the short ebook, Tarot & Oracle Card Reading for One. I also took a day to change my blog to feature most of my 85 (and counting) tarot posts more prominently. Publishing a book is my big resolution for 2016 and it’s great to feel like I’m on my way.
I’ll be using one of the structures you mentioned in Writing a Book in 30 Days though I’m still working out the details of how many tips or steps will work best.
For me, reason #2 resonates. I’m a positive person – or at least that’s what I project – but, as I read your article, it occurred to me that self-doubt and being over critical are NOT positive traits. Changing those kind of things isn’t always easy which is why I like your Blog a Book approach so much.
For me, writing isn’t necessarily a problem. I can, and do, write book length fiction fairly easily. My main issue with writing nonfiction is that I never feel qualified to write a spiritual / metaphysical type book. After five years of blogging, however, I do feel pretty qualified to blog on it.
So this approach gets me under my inner critics radar – which is huge.
Thanks so much for everything, Nina. And best of luck in 2016!
Barbara,
I’m glad yo found the piece useful. I had just finished listening to Brendon Burchard speak about goals setting when I wrote that…and I realized that I, too, speak negatively even though I see myself as positive. That’s a big push for me this year.
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