The best goals are those that fire you up, make you feel excitied and inspire you to take action.
If your goal doesn't move you emotionally you will never take action to achieve it. Yiu must use 2 forces, away and towards motivation:
1. Decide on what you don't want - this creates the "away" motivation. For example, "I don't want to be struggling for money at the end of the month" or "I don't want to work in an large corporate environment anymore".
2. Decide what you do want to experience - this creates your "towards" motivation. For example, "I want to have cash in the bank at the end of the month and not be in the red", "I want to go on holiday" or "I want a new job in a smaller, more creative organisation".
Away motivation is the catalyst for action and towards motivation creates the continuation of action! Both spark the excitement that you need to keep on track with your goals!
Be truthful
Somewhere inside you, you must really believe you can achieve this goal. You must feel that belief working for you emotionally.
Effective action
Action is the key to all success. Knowing what to do and not doing it is pretty much the same as not knowing what to do.
Make it recordable
Follow this simple 4 step system:
1. Set the goal
2. Create the plan to achieve it
3. Take action in line with your plan
4. regularly measure results and get feedback
It's simple, if the results and feedback confirms you are on the right track then keep taking the same actions - you're on the right track!
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