3 Actionable Steps for Achieving Your Goals
Go Beyond Resolutions
Tomorrow you are going to achieve all your goals for the day.
You will come online and tell us all about it.
By the next weekend, life will happen and you will lose your momentum.
3 months later you will wonder, what was my resolution again?
If you don’t want this to happen, here’s what you need to do:
1/ Delay the gratification.
Don’t tell us about your accomplishments on the first day.
Give us an update after 30 days or 90 days.
Why?
The first day is easy, you are excited about your goals. You look forward to doing more.
But when you share your progress on the first day itself and your friends congratulate you and tell you to keep going.
Your brain takes the appreciation as if you did it.
You achieved your goals.
And if your brain thinks, something is already executed in the future, little by little you lose your momentum and you become susceptible to giving in to other life happenings around you instead of focusing on your goals.
2/ Show Up
You are not a robot that can be programmed. Trust me, if that was possible, your parents would have done it a long time ago.
You will miss some days.
Show up the next day.
Every day won’t be the same. Some days you will outdo yourself, other days you will barely scratch the surface.
But don’t quit altogether, keep the line running and bounce back.
3/ Show, Don’t Tell
Talk less about what you are going to do, and show more about what you did.
Once you have done something, you can reflect back and say,
‘I did that, I can do this.’
This is more about you than anyone else. Show yourself the proof of what you can do.
Nothing can boost your confidence more than this.
People say, ‘Trust yourself, you can do this.’
But just saying won’t make you believe it.
You have to do the work and create your proofs so that you can trust yourself.
A few more things that you can consider doing to make your process smoother:
- Keep a progress log, a digital one or a simple notebook where you can document things. Helps in reflecting back.
- Whenever self-doubt creeps in, Zoom Out.
Your progress over 30 days would surely look better than one day.
Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will be you.
All that matters is, did you put even one stone in building Rome today or not.
