Don't make your New Year's Resolutions yet!!! I say this with all the urgency I can muster. Belief is the most important key in staying motivated… it creates passion… and passion is what keeps you going when things get hard- and I fear that if you set your goals without considering what I'm about to say, you will likely find yourself walking in the same circle that we all have experienced time after time while setting goals.
I wanna talk to 3 types of people today:
-The person that sets goals and achieves them... but deep down you know that you have been selling yourself short.
-The person that sets goals, and a month later, you find that your goals have fallen by the wayside- causing frustration and despair.
-The person that doesn't set any goals, because deep down we can't find the belief in ourselves to achieve those goals.
I firmly believe that setting goals is NOT the first step in ACHIEVING your goals. I wanna challenge you today to take some time to set the foundation that will keep you believing your goals are possible. There are several steps to setting this foundation, and they are:
1.Dream about what could be
2.Discover what's important to YOU
3.Prioritize those things that are important to you
4.Set your goals!
Here's what I want you do for the next few days... Dream about what a day in your life will look like when you have achieved your goal. Get specific. If you want to lose weight, picture what it will feel like to get out of bed 10 or 20 (or more) pounds lighter. Dream about what it will feel like to not have that inner battle raging while you're making cookies for your kids or when you go out to eat with your friends. The cool thing about dreaming is that you don't have to have it all figured out. The point is to allow yourself to ask 'what if...'- it's to allow yourself to get excited about the possibility.
It's a simple step, but I would wager that very few of us actually really dream. I believe that dreaming is the first step in believing in yourself. It doesn't even matter if your dream ends up looking like what it started out to be. In fact, it probably won't. You will discover things about yourself along the way that you didn't realize, and that will change the dream as you go!
The hardest part right now is being patient and taking the time to really dream- to really take time to set the foundation! If you're reading this, you have already decided that you are going to set goals...
So, let's go dream!!!!!!
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