What About The Steps In Between?
“Goal setting” – An overused term that's thrown around constantly but executed rarely. A tedious task often forced on us as a chore by people who think we should have goals.
Most goals are set and abandoned soon after. Why? because the most important and motivating part of the goal is missing… The in-between part. Let me explain, imagine you’re in the car and about to drive to your friends new house, you’ve never been there before so naturally you’re relying on GPS to get you there. You type the address into your GPS and the only thing that pops up is your friends house. Missing are the streets and landmarks surrounding the house, the roads that will take you there and your current location. All you have is an address and nothing in-between.
We don't know where we are in relation to where we think we want to be. Which by the way is somewhere we’ve never been. We’re not sure what needs to be there for us to arrive, and, we have no way of knowing when we have arrived. No wonder we’re abandoning our goals.
Human beings are constantly ‘goal setting’ with things we don’t even consider being goals. Anything we flippantly say we ‘want’ is a mini or maxi goal depending on how ambitious it is from where we currently are.
Engineering the GPS map that takes us to the goal regardless of the number of steps required to bridge the gap between us and our goal, is the key part of making the goal happen. We need to flip our focus – the majority of us focus on the result of the goal, desiring the things we want whilst picturing the triumph of getting there, this is great, but more importantly attention is required to craft the GPS map that will enable us to get there.
The GPS/ map is where the magic happens, reaching the goal is evidence of a well designed and well built map. With that philosophy in mind, learning to engineer your goals is the most important skill when it comes to goal setting.
Within my coaching sessions I’ll show you how to locate everything in-betweencoming out with a sound platform and path to get you exactly where you want to go, no hype.