5 Things You Must Avoid To Reach Your Goals
In this post, I’d like to share with you 5 things you must avoid to reach your goals.
We’ve been in the new year for a while now. We may be losing some of the excitement and energy we had at the beginning of the year.
How are your goals coming along?
If you’ve gotten sidetracked or lost sight of your goals, you might be making one or more of the mistakes below.
If you keep making these mistakes, your chances of reaching your goals will drop by a large amount.
If you can avoid the mistakes listed below, you’ll save yourself time and effort, and you’ll be able to reach your goals faster and with less stress.
Studies show that more than half of New Year’s resolutions are broken within two weeks, and close to 80% are broken within the first two months.
One problem with New Year’s resolutions is that they aren’t usually clear, measurable goals.
You don’t feel anything about our goals.
It’s easy to set goals based on what we think we can do instead of what we really want.
When we set goals for things we don’t care about or that don’t fit into a bigger mission or cause, it’s easy to give up on them or tell ourselves they weren’t important.
The key is to set goals based on what we really want because what we really want makes us feel something, and our actions will be driven by how we feel.
Making Excuses
You may say some of the following things a lot:
- I’m not prepared.
- The time is not right;
- I don’t measure up;
- It’s too hard; I’m too old/young;
- It will take too long, people will make fun of me, or something else.
When that happens, you should stop and think about why you’re saying that.
Realize that your mind is tricky and likes to stay in its comfort zone, doing the same old activities and tasks on autopilot and not trying anything new. So, it comes up with all these excuses that can sometimes sound pretty good.
Your job is to get rid of them and even make them sound silly to see how silly they sound.
Because if you choose the other option — if you believe them — you’ll never change anything in your life and you’ll never get what you want.
Further Reading: 21 Stop Making Excuses Quotes
Perfectionism
So many people have strong desires and really want to do certain things in their lives.
But they want much more than they deserve and are greedy and ungrateful even before they get them.
Many, for example, don’t just want to get a good job with a high salary and work hard to make money and improve the quality of their lives; they also want to be rich right away.
That’s the wrong way to do it.
Because you should first be thankful for what you have (and no matter how little that is, believe me, others have much less and still find the will to thank for it).
Only then will you feel like you have enough and know that you can turn it into something more.
And you’ll feel like you have to work for it, give something back, and then enjoy the results of your hard work.
Further Reading: How To Overcome Perfectionism And Get Your Work Done
Procrastination
It’s another thing that keeps us from taking steps toward our goals. So it’s something else we need to stop doing.
Remember one thing: now is the best time to do what you want. Any other time is later than now.
You make your future in the present moment, which is also the only time you can be productive and work on things you care about.
The only way to stop putting things off is to start doing them right away, without giving your mind a chance to come up with excuses.
Without having doubts about your skills or being afraid of failing.
Just do a little something today that will help you move forward and get closer to your goals.
Further Reading: 10 Top Ways To Stop Procrastination Quickly And Get Productive
Distractions
There will be people who don’t believe in you, and if you listen to them, you’ll lose hope.
On your way to success, there will be many things that will tempt you. There are many fun but time-wasting things to do.
And you’ll often think that life is unfair because other people have so much time, can eat whatever they want and can buy things that you can’t.
But that isn’t the case.
It’s just that you’ve chosen to work on your goals and try to make your life better, while others would rather take the easy way out and do things that make them happy for a short time.
Further Reading: How To Eliminate Distractions And Boost Your Productivity
