Set Goals Worthy of Yourself

I have learned a lot about setting goals over the past 17 years studying in the personal development industry. Some goals I have attained and others I have not. It was not until I was coached myself by my mentor that I truly understood that there is a way to set goals and a mindset that guarantees your success in achieving them.

 

First we have to understand that people set goals 3 ways:

1)    They set goals based on what they know they can achieve

2)    They set goals based on what they think they can achieve

3)    They set goals based on what they want and don’t know how they will achieve it

The first two ways are logical thinking, circumstance driven and combine the what with the how. In the third way, there is no how, there is only the what. In setting goals there is only one golden rule: you should never mix the what with the how.

Michelangelo, the painter said that “you should not be afraid to set goals so high that you may never achieve them, but of setting them so low that you always do.”

You see, there is no stretching, no reaching, no faith and no passion involved in the first two ways. It is the same reason why people who set a goal to lose 50 pounds make it, and people who set a goal to lose 5 pounds never do. It is because the goal was too easy, too reachable and too close to where you started. It goes against our logical thinking, but the greater the goal, the greater the chances of achieving it.

When you set a goal and you have no idea how you will achieve it, there is a certain amount of tension like when a rubber band is stretched to its maximum. When it snaps back, it snaps back so much faster than another rubber band that is barely stretched. This is creative tension and is necessary because creativity is where all the passion, love, and inspiration come together into visible manifestation. When the goal is so far from your starting point, and so high that you have to stretch to get it, you develop passion and faith. Your mind starts to work in ways it hasn’t had to before. Your excitement is an energy that magnetizes and aligns you with all the people, events and resources necessary to get what you want.

Set goals that are worthy of you. Your time here passes anyway whether you go for those big dreams or go for those 5 little pounds. You will find that if you do go for your dreams, those 5 pounds will melt off in the process.

My mentor always says: When you finally reach your goals, you will find it is not the goal itself that was as important as who you have become in the process of attaining it.

 

Who do you want to become?