It's the beginning of a new year and that always seems like the time to talk about goals. We call them New Years resolutions. And we felt obligated to have them. However a few weeks after New Years they are usually fading till we finally forget about them. I used to write my goals down and found when I read them the next New Years Day that they not only were not accomplished, but they were still my goals. I think after several years of the same resolutions they either must not have been that important or maybe I just hadn't done what I should have done to achieve these objectives. I wondered about this for a long time. Why did I set the same goals each year and not attain them?
I read and studied about goal setting. I totally got it. I was great at this part. I decided what the goal was. I quantified it and put a date on when I would achieve it. But, next year there it was again. Still on my list of things to do. So through my reading I found that I should get rid of the goals that just weren't important enough to do, like learning French. And concentrate on the ones I wanted to really accomplish like getting physically fit. Now here is the key part I was missing. First I should be making an action plan and then take the steps in my plan. What I did before was make objectives and never really refer to them again. Now I know that the only way to reach my target is to live my goals everyday.
Here is another important part of goal achievement. What you do when you veer off the road. It will happen many times on the way. The difference between success and failure is making a course correction and getting back on track. In Weight Watchers ©, they tell you if you overeat at a meal don't let that stop you from continuing your weight loss journey. Just jump back on the wagon.
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