10 Lessons Learned About Difficult Goals After 150 Days in a Row Blogging
Today represents 150 days in a row of writing a daily blog. Below are the 10 lessons I’ve learned about goal setting and pursuing difficult goals during this process.
- The process must serve as the goal, and the goal must serve as the compass. This is because executing a process is 100% within your control. In addition, you can measure progress, success, or failure by your ability to stay on track following the process.
- Achieving goals through sacrifice is the best approach for goals with binary success or failure outcomes. The reason for this is because sacrifice is intrinsic, measurable, and 100% within your control.
- For every extrinsic goal you set, it must map directly to a related intrinsic goal. Then focus on the intrinsic goal as the priority and let the extrinsic goal be the by-product.
- Using the quote of the week strategy is a good method to keep focus on non-tangible and difficult to measure goals.
- By mapping out a step by step plan, you can make an unrealistic goal, less unrealistic.
- You must make time for your goals every single day.
- The amount of desire you have to achieve a difficult goal drives the will to grind.
- Adopting the idea of a goal progression is the best way to break down a long term or difficult goal.
- Tracking routine streaks is a proven method to compete with yourself and generate motivation for pursuing a long term or difficult goal.
- Pursuing a long term goal is hard. Therefore you must have patience, be truly passionate about the goal, and establish daily rituals and routines to support the goal.