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How To Achieve Goals Guaranteed

By: Thomas Anderson

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What do you do if you find yourself setting goals but then being stopped before you actually accomplish them? It's an interesting question that a lot of people deal with. Here's the answer to this common problem.

With anything we do in life, the hardest thing to build, but the most important thing is momentum. Once you have it, it's hard to stop, but once you lose it, or if you never gain it in the first place, it's difficult to get it going again.

Let's look at this in a metaphoric way so you can see what I mean. Imagine you are standing in front of a large locomotive train. One of those huge train engines that are overwhelmingly massive in size. That's the way I want you to picture your goals. Now if your goal is massive then you have to picture that the train is filled with a lot of seperate cars, and in this case each car represents a step of your goal. The more cars that are attached (the bigger the goal) the longer it will take to build momentum. So think about a massive line of train cars. What happens when the train begins to take off? There is an obvious attempt to gain movement, but all that really happens is a huge puff of smoke, some noise and perhaps the engine moves just slightly forward. Next puff, more slight movement, next puff, more slight movement, and so on and so on. It takes a long time for the train to get into any type of movement. It might even seem like the train is never going to get going.

But let's imagine what happens when that same engine is attached to only one car. So the idea is that each step is a car. If the engine starts, then the first action will create immediate movement. The next action will create motion and before long, the train is moving along without much effort. Now if that train were to suddenly get another car attached to it, it may feel the weight, but the momentum keeps it going and before long it's chugging along and has MORE power behind it because it's actually carrying more weight! Add another car while it's in momentum and the power is even greater because of the ongoing power the train has already gained.

Many times, people look at their goals as a whole, even though they have broken them down into what they think are Measurable and Achievable steps. So let's think about goals as if they were a train. Since goal setting is supposed to motivate us, we should be setting goals that we can get into massive action with quickly. Reaching a large goal is nothing more than achieving a series of smaller goals along the way.

So let's think about this from the popular show about addiction. Most times, the people who want to quit their addiction look at the whole picture. They see the goal as stop doing drugs or "stop drinking" and that goal is like a HUGE train being started with hundreds of cars. At first, the movement is slight at best, and since we are human and not machines without emotion, the thought could quickly turn from “I can do this which would create a feeling of hope and inspiration, and an action of not having a drink or taking a hit of their chosen drug and a result of getting started on the larger task of quitting forever. This is good. However, since we are constantly dealing with the voice in our head that we battle with at each moment, if we step back and look at the desire to quit again and the struggles that will come along with that.we may find ourselves with the thought of I'm never going to be able to do it which creates a feeling of hopelessness and our action might be to go back out and seek out the very thing we're trying to quit doin and everything goes back to the way it was..

But let's look at this again, using the same train idea. What if instead of the goal being quit drinking alcohol the same person set a goal to Not drink today. Now you might say to yourself, if quit drinking was your goal not drinking today was one of my steps." You would be right. If your goal is quit drinking and you're carrying the weight of that goal and working on getting into momentum, then the weight of the goal is going to seem overwhelming at first. Remember, steps of a goal are like a freight train. If you have a huge goal, you're carrying a lot of weight.

So instead of someone in that situation setting a goal to “quit drinking and carry the heavy burden of that goal, even though in the beginning of the goal they may have positive thoughts, the weight of the goal can quickly turn those thoughts around. That person would be better off setting a goal to Stay away from the people and places that temp me to drink. Over burdening yourself with to many tasks and too much pressure to do it all at once typically creates a sort of paralysis for many people.

Your Thoughts will create feelings which create actions which create results.

Remember that accomplishment of something large is nothing more than accomplishing many small things over time. So, if your goal is to never drink again. Then you should set a goal at first to not drink TODAY. And once you have learned to master that goal, then you can set the goal to not drink this week. Then once you master that goal, you set a goal to not drink this month. Remember, a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

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Thomas Anderson is a motivational speaker and you can contact him at LifeTrax.com and you can read more about how to lifetraxblog.com/how-to-achieve-goals-guaranteed/ here.

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