Goal Setting: How to Get Unstuck and Keep Moving Forward
By Jill on Jan 14, 2008 in Featured, Goal Setting
We are now into the third week of the new year and this is the time many become discouraged and abandon their Goals and New Year’s Resolutions.
Understand that it is natural to feel a pull backwards. Back to the old habits, the old routine, the old way of doing things and being the old you.
This is the time when you realize it’s going to take a concerted effort to bring to life all of those New Year’s Resolutions and positive intentions you wanted to realize this year.
The reason most people fail at fulfilling them and give up around this time is because by the third week in January, your schedule has gone back to “normal” following the Holidays, and there is a natural pull to go back to what is comfortable.
And of course any resolution that was meant to bring about a drastic change or improvement in your life would also require that you make a conscious concerted effort and follow through on the actions long enough to create the change and form those new habits.
Most research concurs that it takes at least 21 consecutive days to form a new habit, and most people don’t even make it that far with their New Year’s Resolutions.
Now if you’re reading this, then I already know you are not interested in being average or doing what average people do. You are interested in designing an extraordinary life on your own terms and being conscious on how to create that life, day in and day out.
So go back to your plans, intentions and Goals for the year, or if you set some New Year’s Resolutions for 2008, revisit those and pick one to focus on right now.
So you don’t feel overwhelmed, just pick one Goal and one action that you can take today to keep it alive, keep it moving and focus only on one thing you can to do today.
Focus on that one next step. Get it done and get it out of the way.
To help you out of procrastination, overwhelm, confusion, fear or discouragement, you can watch this quick 3 minute video I made for you.
You don’t have to get it right, you just have to get it going.
Once you understand this, you can catch yourself, get back on track and keep that momentum going.
The best way to stay on track year round is to enroll in Goal University and join our LIVE coaching calls alongside other supportive people and me to guide you.
Live Your Dreams,
Jill Koenig
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7 Comment(s)
By Scott Stroud on Jan 14, 2008 | Reply
Jill - Great ‘fog’ metaphor in the video. Any change can be frightening, and psychologists have found that the fear of success can be even more paralyzing than the fear of failure. Some where their fog like a security blanket.
BTW - I give high marks to your blog and promote it in my own coaching course for new home salespeople, and have added a link to Goalguru.com to my own blog and podcast.
Keep it coming!
Scott Stroud
Program Director
BuilderRadio.com
By Annie on Jan 14, 2008 | Reply
I think I am realizing that other people’s stuff
(thought processes and judgement) can sometimes bring in their fog into our lives. They have fear of others successes or failures and how it will make them appear and so they will, if allowed, disrupt the our goals, find fault in our methods. We can not blame them if we do not walk on through the fog, get passed whatever the source of the fog in our lives and still remain dedicated to our goals and be genuine within who we can and want to be. Our lives and our goals are ours and we are the makers of our own happiness and our sorrow. We create what we want by what we think. And in response to other people’s stuff,well, we still create what we want by what we think.
By Eric Dick on Jan 15, 2008 | Reply
Jill,
That was a great post! I have had people in my life get “cranky” about habits they want to form and bad ones they want to drop. I believe this is quite common. Instead of thinking about the hours it will take to create the life we want or how much discipline it will take, why not Be that person. If people could think from the precise place they want to be, its really not that hard to build habits into their routines. I am not an expert, but this type of thinking has helped me and I wanted to share.
Best,
Eric
By Bryan Clark on Jan 17, 2008 | Reply
That was a great video! Can’t wait to see more.
By Frank Montro on Jan 18, 2008 | Reply
Jill,
Great motivational talk. My business is so intense it is so easy to get sidetracked and forget the simple truth..focus on the next step. Focusing on the next step is a powerful message. When I focus on the next step, I get to where I am heading in the most efficent manner. It clears my head from the “stinkin thinkin” too! Thanks for the reminder. One thing I’ve learned is that I need constant reminders. Thanks, this is very helpful.
By Jennifer on Feb 10, 2008 | Reply
Wow…that’s quite a metaphor for the junk that gets in our way of living our dreams. I know I tend to have lots of fog in front of me…part I think b/c God is molding me to who He wants me to be & part b/c I let more fog get in the way of my dreams & goals instead of pressing on. I’ve never thought of this like this…nice job!
By Robert Snow on Mar 4, 2008 | Reply
Great post Jill, very similar views to my own. I have written an e-book on my site on goalsetting as I think its something so many overlook.
You really capture the essence of this in your posts
Rob