Goals are an interesting thing; they can bring you wealth, success, and health. But goals can also bring frustration, sadness, and depression. I have made many many goals and failed that most of them; this is helped me grow a lot but most of the goals had mistakes that could have been fixed fairly easily. Here and right now I will tell you some of my mistakes that I made that got me off track of my goals.
No Plan at All
The first thing may seem fairly obvious but I can't believe how many I started to do a goal but had no plan in mind of how to complete it. I would think, okay from now on I will eat healthier or I will increase my income. When I tried doing both of these I completely failed because I had no thought process made. But sometimes overdid it and that brings me to.
Made a plan but... took forever to use it/ cost too much to start
One thing about making plans for goals is that if you have no plan at all you will fail and creating the best plan in the world is not worth anything if you can't use it. For example when I was first planning on getting in shape I made a huge diagram of when I would go to the gym, what I would eat, and many other things with but after I had completed it I had made the task looks so huge that I felt it wasn't worth doing it.
When making a plan for your goals you can't go overboard and you can't go under board, you have to find a happy medium. My favorite way of looking planning is the ready-fire-aim approach. I took this idea from Steve Pavlina from www.stevepavlina.com but it is such a good model. You get your idea make a simple plan, you put your player in the motion, then you change your plan is needed to get the best results.
No Commitment
If you make a goal you should stick with it for at least 30 days. Unless it is physically harming you or something terrible could happen if you continue on with it. Most goals you can deal with for 30 days. After the 30 days if the goal does not seem right for you then quit. When you have a goal to read for one hour every day then read for one hour every day. This is one of the biggest but if you stick with it that it can become a habit easier.
Thinking you can't do it
Whether you think you can do it or you think you can't you're right. One of the most powerful things you can do to achieve something is tell yourself you can do it. Now it's not enough to tell yourself you can do it but you need to tell yourself you can do it so much that you believe you can do it. Reality is what you make of it.
Thinking that small is nothing
Whatever you achieve something from your goal be amazed and be grateful that you made to their. This is like when you get a dog and you try to teach it to do a trick. Whatever the animal has made any progress in doing the trick you give it all the praise in the world so that it will continue doing this same trick. It works the same with yourself if you praise yourself for every small step of completion you will feel more compelled to finish or to continue.
All of these things can help make or break a goal. Get away from thinking about the negative and think about the positive. All of these have been in hindrances to my goal making it a past. I hope that now I pointed them out that you should be able to avoid them.
