10 Easy Tips to Help You Achieve Those Goals
“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.”
–Thomas Jefferson
If you’ve been following my recent blogs, I’m pretty sure you’ve defined your goals, and I hope you’ve created a plan of action so you can accomplish what you’ve envisioned.
As Stephen Covey once said, “Start with the end in mind.” How do you see yourself having accomplished that goal? Envision it! Feel it! Act on it!
As you’re working up to it, I’m sharing ten of my favorite tips that can help make it easier to achieve those goals you’ve defined.
You CAN do it. Remember how you learned to walk? Step by step. Tackle your goals step by step – and you’ll be well on your way to success!
10 Things You Must Do to Meet Your Goals
- Create a Personal Mission Statement.
Define what you’re about. What do you value? What are your goals? What is your purpose? Be specific. Be honest with yourself. When you’re not, you lose your integrity. And as we lose our integrity, we lose our power.
- Surround yourself with positive doers.
Being around negativity pulls you down and sucks the energy right out of you. Being around positive, uplifting people puts a shine on your disposition. You feel better and are more motivated! Better yet, surround yourself with positive doers who have goals similar to your goals. You can mutually learn from each other, the successes and the failures, have someone to be accountable to (so important!) and motivate each other to keep going when staying on track with your goals become challenging.
- Get creative.
Everyone is different – and we all approach things differently, too. Be different in the techniques you use to meet your goals! Talk to a trusted advisor. Meditate. Sleep on it. Ask for help. There are plenty of methods to help you achieve your goals but you need to invest some energy to find what is going to work for you.
- Give thanks.
Learn to appreciate the good things in your life. Expressing gratitude makes you feel better, both physically and emotionally. Start a gratitude journal. Write down 3 things each day that you are thankful for. You’ll find yourself becoming happier and healthier!
- Let go of the past. Release what no longer serves you.
Stop carrying around that excess negative baggage. There is great power in forgiving. As Melissa Kirk wrote, “When we let go, we fly. Even if we just take a couple of flaps and end up two feet away from where we were, not sure if we have the courage to try again, we still made a change, one that might have wide-ranging implications, if we just had the patience to let the ripples wash up against distant shores.”
- Quit worrying what others will think.
When we rely more on what other people think rather than relying on our own values, we increase the chances of making bad decisions. Get comfortable with yourself. Living with a mindset of “what will they think of me?” is one of the fastest ways to pop out of alignment with your core values. Honestly ask yourself, does it really matter – really – what other people think?
- Make your action plan easy to execute.
Break all you goals down into baby steps and daily habits. In his book, The Slight Edge, Jeff Olson explains that the same simple actions that take us from near failure to moderate success are the same actions, that if maintained over time, would take us from moderate success to wild success. The are our daily habits that either move us toward our goal or away from our goal. What are the daily habits that will take you toward your goal?
- Know when to cut your losses.
Don’t waste your valuable time persisting in goals that are beyond reach. “This persistence can waste time and resources better spent on attainable goals and lead to negative emotions such as disappointment and anger,” according to Heather Lench and Linda Levine.
- Take responsibility for your actions.
Don’t blame anyone for your actions. It’s a waste of time, cultivates a good deal of stress, and in the end, nothing is gained. Own up to your accomplishments – and failures. There are lessons to be learned in both!
- Stop and smell the roses.
Celebrate your accomplishments! Recognize positive steps you’ve taken and reward yourself. Celebrating what you’ve achieved is an important part of the goal-setting process. Take the time to think about your achievement…how exciting it is…and how it is a springboard to higher success!
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
-Vincent VanGogh
Yes, you really can achieve your goals! Envision them, write them down, work towards them each day, each moment, and you will see yourself transform. Each little step of accomplishment brings forth a new you…and each step you take will be higher than the next…to the day you can say, “I did it!”
Tell us: Of the Top 10 Tips, which do you find most helpful?
Resources
Accomplished: How to Go from Dreaming to Doing: A simple, step by step system that gives you the foundation and structure to take your goals and make them happen.
Create Goals that are Worthy of you: If you are done with either pursuing vanilla goals, suffering through the struggle of goals that are not aligned with your strengths, or dealing with heartbreak of an unattainable goal this course is for you!
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Thanks for the group of these 10 winning ways Jodi! I really appreciate the wisdom and inspiration you’re leadership provides daily. I’m a big proponent of your guidance and how you go about your business in leading others to their success.
This is a great list you have pulled together! I have found numbers 2 and 9 to be incredibly powerful!
Jodi, I really enjoyed reading this post-5 is my most helpful. It’s so easy to get bogged down in the past. Great reminder to move forwards into you vision!
Love the idea of developing a personal mission statement! Its funny since I have helped many teams and organizations create missions statements but yet have never done a personal one. Thanks for starting with that at the top of your list. The other tips are great too. I’m finding that surrounding one’s self with positive doers really helps. Accountability partners, mastermind groups, coaches…all really can help keep on track. Good stuff here Jodi!
Surround yourself with do’ers… that’s for sure the most powerful one for me. When I surround myself with people who are on parallel paths in their journeys it’s like we’re all working to cross the finish line together — we cheer for each other and all of us move forward!