Why Your Goal Setting Failed Again This Year
(and it's only February...)
Kevin Hogan
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What is a goal SUPPOSED to be?
A goal is really what you want your life to be like or something you want
in your life every day beginning (ideally) at some period of time.
You don't work on "achieving goals," instead you want to "work on"
living July 17, 2008 in a specific location, office, with a certain person,
with different lifestyle habits, and so forth.
I use July 17 because today is February 10.
You are creating your July 17 life TODAY (when you have a goal) just
like at the end of the day today, you will have done certain things and
not done others.
If you didn't exercise today, you didn't want to; you chose not to. It's
that simple.
If you want to assure yourself that you will exercise July 17, you need
to have it be habitual long before you arrive at that date.
Between your conscious and nonconscious mind, unless you have truly
decided to take control of your life, your nonconscious will invariably
win all "choice wars."
"Conscious choices" require new non-preloaded software that you must
buy, learn to use, download, test, use daily, become proficient. Ugh.
Much easier to just stick with what you have.
BACK TO BEFORE...STOP
Oh, don't get me wrong, you got "busy for awhile." You did "action steps"
and even went to the gym, started a diet, all kinds of things that
seemingly made it obvious that you were on your way to a "new life."
Whether the above scenario describes your situation exactly or not, it
stands as a common example of how easy it is to set goals, especially
"seasonally planned goals" like New Year's Resolutions.. and how
difficult it can be to follow through and actually achieve them.
Most people I know that fail, do the following STUPID things.
Turn the page to discover things that make goal setting fail.
