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A Less-Arduous Approach
March 07, 2008
If you're like me, you usually mark the end of a year by reflecting on what happened in the previous year and what you'd like to see happen in the coming year.
It's already March (can you believe it?), and it's not too late to get focused on your practice and personal plans for 2008.
In the past, I personally relied upon sheer willpower and determination to reach my goals, and occasionally supplemented my efforts with self-help books. Although these methods "got me through", they came with a high emotional and mentally exhaustive cost.
Consider replacing your efforts with these more sustainable, less-arduous ones:
Set goals based on your personal values.
When you know what's personally valuable to you, you're more likely to set goals that are authentically YOU, and they're easier to reach because they are an expression on your values.
Identify outcomes instead of goals.
By re-wording your goal into an outcome, you'll enjoy the process a lot more. A goal can be fairly narrow, and if we fail to achieve it, we may feel like we've failed.
Identify character traits and personal qualities which you'd feel great to have.
Instead of setting external goals, such as making $1M, why not set goals on who you would like to become, as a person? "What" goals are great, but they are more fulfilling when they integrate with your "who" goals.
Discover what motivates you in every part of your personal and business life.
Only with true self-understanding and awareness can you make true choices about your life.
Coordinate a support system to help keep you on track for the goals you have set.
Nothing worth accomplishing is worth accomplishing alone.
Remove the blocks delaying your achieving a goal or change the goal.
If a goal has become a "should", "could", or "ought", it'll drain you. Choose goals that really appeal to you or come easily.
Hang out with other people who have already reached the goal you want for yourself.
This sets up the environment to motivate and support you, instead of you having to push so hard.
Or, give up your goals entirely and simply respond fully to what occurs during the day.
There is a tendency for us to think that if we're not creating a goal, reinventing/redesigning/"working on" yourself, that you're a "slacker". While this may be true, there is an approach in between these that works for many.
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