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Articles: My Thoughts | Self Motivation
- Mrs. Praveena Nadimetla
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Self Motivation
Setting Goals
We all have been through it, time after time. We decide to make some changes in our lives: to lose weight, quit smoking, start exercising. We set our goals, and we work towards them. And
for a while, it works very well! We’re dedicated, motivated, and moving towards improving ourselves. And then, slowly, perhaps so slowly we don’t even notice it, we start to slip. We skip a workout because we’ve booked an appointment for that time. We find excuses to light up just once, and that chocolate mountain fudge cheesecake just looks so good . . . and before we know it, our careful plans are all for nothing, and we have to start again from scratch.
Trouble is, every time we try again, we fail, and eventually the gap between starting and failing to reach a goal narrows, until finally, we just stop trying. Sound familiar? It happens to people all the time. It’s not that people lack the self motivation or willpower to set goals and attain them. It’s just that many of us have no idea how to set realistic goals, or how to maintain the motivation necessary to keep working towards them.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance. One cannot fly into flying.
Reaching Goals
Fortunately, if you watch successful people, you start to see some patterns—patterns anyone can apply. Successful people are masters at setting goals.
They don’t just announce, “I’m going to lose 20 lbs.” Instead, they break the process down into easy-to-attain goals. A twenty-pound loss may be their ultimate goal, but they start by determining to lose five. Losing five pounds sounds a lot easier than losing twenty! Once they’ve lost five, they set a new goal: to lose another five pounds, and so on until they meet their goal. There’s an old saying that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. It’s often the thousand miles we tend to see, and not the individual steps towards the goal. Enjoy the journey towards your goals even more than actually attaining them, because it’s the journey that ultimately makes setting goals worthwhile.
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