Goal setting is always an important factor when it comes to keeping yourself motivated. People often advise that you should keep your goals right in front of your eyes so as not to lose focus of the direction you are taking. Sure, this is good advice. However, some of us put unrealistic and superhuman goals before us, and when we fail to meet these goals, we feel depressed, unworthy and basically, less than superhuman. Once we start feeling this way, we lose our motivation to continue on. We need to set realistic goals in order to remain motivated. And here's how. One of the things to remember is that setting near impossible goal is simply that, it is near impossible to achieve. Although you might set this grandiose goals for yourself because you have such great faith in your abilities and capabilities, these just may be too Herculenean a task to perform at one go.
It is wonderful to set such long term goals like climbing Mt. Everest before your 40th year, or setting up your own multi-million Internet-based software company, or winning the Nobel Prize for physics. However, you have to realize that before you can actually accomplish these things, you need to put in a lot of hard work and you will meet a lot of trials (and failures) along the way. In order to remain motivated, you need to help yourself remain so. And you can do this by keeping short-term realistic goals that will eventually lead you to the fulfillment of your long term ones. Everyone would want to reach their goals, make no mistake about it. And everyone hates it when people start doubting their capabilities for reaching those goals. You are of no exception to this rule.
Keeping you goals realistic does not mean that you are doing yourself a great disservice by mistrusting your capacity to reach your goals. Realistic goals mean that you should set immediate actions to accomplish long-term benefits. A series of small triumphs will motivate you to move forward rather than back slide into oblivion.
For example, if you plan on reaching Mt. Everest sometime in your life, you could start by improving your climbing time, or improving your stamina or practicing extensively on other mountains. You could set up a short-term goal such as climbing the peaks of two mountains per year or even per month.
If you are planning on setting up your own multi-million Internet-based software company, you may want to start small and improve your company until it branches out on its own. You could set up such short-term goals such as doubling your sales per month, or outranking one or two of your competition in software development, or even hiring more professionals to suit the demands of your company.
If winning the Nobel Prize for physics is what you seek, some of your short term goals may include: finding sponsors to fund further research on your treatises, writing a paper about your research, or even writing one chapter of your book.
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