Next Series: Mobilize
Once you have confirmed your goal and are committed to making it a reality, it’s time to gather and focus your resources. My favorite story for illustrating this principle is Nehemiah. The story begins when Nehemiah, a Jewish exile serving as the cupbearer for King Artaxerxes, learns from his brother that the walls and gates of Jerusalem have been destroyed, leaving the city virtually...
Read MoreGoal Secret #4: Commit with accountability.
Are you serious about achieving your goals? Do you want to make success inevitable? Have you thought longer? Have you coupled it with another date or event? Have you cleared your path? Great, then there’s one last step: Commit to success, and empower someone to hold you accountable. This means two things. One, that you’ve defined your goal clearly enough that you can articulate it...
Read MoreGoal Secret #3: Clear the path.
Using willpower is exhausting. To increase your chances of success in making changes to achieve a goal, you’ll want to use as little of it as possible. (Yes, you read that correctly.) You don’t want to rely on willpower alone. Very few people succeed with that approach, and you’re almost certain to trade any success you do achieve with decreased productivity in another area of...
Read MoreGoal Secret #2: Coupling.
Productivity coaches often recommend the use of “batching” – for more than just baking cookies. This means grouping similar tasks together and processing them all at one time. For example, common wisdom encourages us to process email at specified times rather than allowing ourselves to be “pinged” throughout the day. This concept can be extended to our goal-setting...
Read MoreGoal Secret #1: Think longer.
“We usually overestimate what we think we can accomplish in one year, but we grossly underestimate what we can accomplish in a decade.” – Tony Robbins This quote reveals a secret that evaded me for years. I’d frequently have a vision of a very large accomplishment and know that I should work to achieve it. But I’d set an arbitrary deadline for the end of the quarter...
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