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Your All-Or-Nothing Approach to Reaching Your Goals Isn’t Working
5 essential mindset changes you need to make to achieve your goals
When we make goals for ourselves, rely on our effort, self-control, and willpower to accomplish them. So, we set our goals and, instead of thinking about how we can reduce the challenge, we wait for obstacles to crash up against us. It’s almost as if we’re hoping against hope that this time things will be easier.
Unfortunately, obstacles are inevitable. And when we encounter them and are set back, we think we’re weak, pathetic, and lacking mental and even moral fortitude. It’s as if we think either obstacles shouldn’t exist for us or we should be able to mow them down with such ease that they’re not even a hiccup on our journey.
But this isn’t reality, is it?
Do you know that 25% of New Year’s resolutions are abandoned within one week? Or that more than 90% of all resolutions will have failed by the end of the year?
As you can see, you’re not alone in your struggle. The vast majority of people find it difficult to reach their goals. Unfortunately, when things don’t go the way we expect them to, we jump to the conclusion that there’s something wrong with us — like there’s something rotten at the core of who we are.
