Setting goals and then not making them a priority
Do you or have you ever set goals either monthly or weekly and then not completed them or even made them a priority? Have you perhaps conveniently forgotten about them, or maybe even deliberately ignored them. Or was the practice of actually writing down the goal in the first place success enough for you? Your goals exist because they take you closer to where you want to be in life, and there are daily or weekly tasks you need to do in order to achieve your goal.
While an objective of losing weight may be a long term goal it will be made up of a many smaller tasks that will need to be completed daily or weekly.
If you have already written your goal down then you must already consider important enough for something to be done about it.
Why then is it that sometimes it does not get completed?
Does life get in the way?
Do you have too many other things to worry about?
Are you just lazy?
Do you come up with excuses such as ‘I’ll do it later’ or ‘It will get done, just not today’.
If you are serious about changing your life, you are going to have to get serious about completing the daily tasks that your goal requires.
Excuses and laziness will not work and you will find yourself no nearer to your goal, the process of you writing down your goal will become meaningless.
You will be static, while you may not be getting any closer somebody somewhere with the same goal probably is. While you are sat there doing nothing, making excuses there are people who are completing their goals and who are making something happen, don’t you want to be one of them?
Some tips for making sure daily tasks get done;
Every Sunday make a weekly checklist of all the things you want to do for the week ahead. Include all days from Monday to Sunday. Write down everything that you want to do for that day and what you want to complete. See yourself having completed the task.
Assign a time to do it, for example between 7-8. (if it means not watching TV, so be it) Congratulate yourself when you complete the task.
Know what you have to do before the day arrives, it can be very easy sometimes to just wake up and suddenly decide something else needs to be done that day. Don’t get sidetracked like this unless you have already completed the task you set yourself on Sunday. Stay focused on what you need to do. The time you allocate for your task should be used for that task only and not other work.
Don’t try and plan too much, it is easy to get carried away when writing down what you need to do and give yourself too much, this can make you feel overwhelmed and is one way that you can start making excuses to not finish or even start some tasks.
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