The biggest graduation myth? Believing you should already know exactly what comes next. In episode #1201 of The BIGG Success Show, discover a healthier way to approach your next chapter.
Setting goals can be tricky. Like Goldilocks, looking for the right bowl of porridge, you want to create goals that are neither too high nor too low … you want goals that are just right.
Let’s go to The Professor’s whiteboard to see how to set goals like Goldilocks.
Did you know goal-setting and hope have a lot to do with each other? But it requires 3 types of thinking all working together. That’s our focus today. Click the player to listen to this episode of the BIGG Success podcast, or read the summary below.
Like any other new year, most people will begin the new year with anticipation and hope.
We toast one year good-bye, figuratively or literally, while we welcome the new one.
We let go of the past. We start fresh.
Most people don’t make New Year’s resolutions. Far, far fewer keep them.
Because of this, New Year’s resolutions have gotten a bad rap. They’re fodder for jokes.
The secret to making New Year resolutions
Resolution is another name for goal. You won’t reach BIGG success without clear goals.
That’s the secret to making New Year resolutions – they need to be clearly defined.
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The secret to keeping New Year resolutions
On New Year’s Day, you’re confident in your ability to keep your resolutions.
You have the desire to get to the next level, to create a new you.
You believe you can do it.
So a secret to keeping New Year is to treat every day like New Year’s Day.
Bring the same optimism and enthusiasm for a better life into every day.
On some days, you’ll succeed. Give yourself a pat on the back.
Just remember, though, that tomorrow is the beginning of another year. You have to strive to keep your resolutions again.
There will also be days when you don’t keep your resolutions.
Don’t worry.
Don’t get discouraged.
Don’t beat yourself up.
Double your resolve.
Learn from it.
Double your resolve.
Let go of it.
Start fresh.
Tomorrow is the beginning of another year.
Change is difficult
Some setbacks are to be expected. People fail to keep their resolutions because they let these setbacks become excuses.
They didn’t keep their resolution today, so why keep it tomorrow?
BIGG goal-getters do the opposite. They realize that change is difficult. So they make every day New Year’s Day.
If you follow their lead, it will lead you to BIGG success next year!
https://biggsuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/bigg-success_stacked-1080.png10801080George Krueger & Mary-Lynn Fosterhttps://biggsuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/BIGG-Success-Nurturing-Your-Inner-Entreprener.jpgGeorge Krueger & Mary-Lynn Foster2011-12-28 07:00:342011-12-26 15:23:48Secrets for Making New Year Resolutions That Stick
We recommend watching the whole interview, but we want to highlight one piece of it here. Dea stressed the importance of setting realistic goals.
Setting goals is an important part of reaching BIGG success. But BIGG goal-getters know that “getting” beats “setting.” So we found the next thing she said incredibly revealing:
“Do one thing every day but remember you can’t do everything every day.”
Spot on!
Stop trying to do everything every day. Just do one thing.
But be consistent. Do one thing every day that moves you to your goal.
Dea stressed the cumulative effect of doing one thing every day – you’ll have 30 things done in a month, 365 completed in the next year.
You reach BIGG success one thing at a time, one day at a time.
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