2-3-4 Friday
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A new year brings new things, new resolutions, goals… you get the
idea. And it seems we always lose the motivation to continue them after some time.
How do you change when change is hard?
You don’t.
Why not this year, instead of setting new goals, you used your old goals? Those set last year, that you never got to do last year. Or that you felt that you never accomplished.
Why not bring them to the forefront this year?
For some of us, our problem isn’t that we don’t start.
It’s that we don’t finish.
The difference between a 68% complete and a 89% finish, is very,
very, different.
Rather than setting new goals this year,
why not move to your previous goal list, and then pick one there that you want to continue?
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If you could just finish to the 89th percent, you would find yourself doing much much more than the average person that completes 6 different things, to 68%.
For example, if you wanted to write a book, and you realised that you’ve only written 60% of it, and then decide to move on to your next book, then you haven’t completed it.
You’ve only started.
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In the universe of goals, there are two types of goals.
- Maintenance goals, where we want to continue
something we are already doing well (like: if you’re exercising 3 times a week, and you want to keep that)
- Stretch goals: where you want to do something wacky, crazy, impossible (you want to climb to the Everest base camp, where the furthest you’ve climbed is… out of your bed)
We often think about goals in terms of what we can exceed, rather
than what we can succeed at, already.
Maybe this year, don’t set
another crazy goal.
Set a goal around the area that you’re already
doing well.
Quick wins, sustain happiness.
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John
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