It’s easy to lose sight of your goal as you go about your day-to-day tasks and become entrenched in the details of your projects. However, this can be a slippery slope to losing motivation and alignment.
It’s important to keep your overarching goal as visible and prominent as possible. This helps you remember why you are doing what you’re doing when things get tough and helps you make decisions. For each decision you can ask yourself, “will this help me achieve my goal?” If the answer is no, it would probably be more beneficial to dedicate your time and energy to something that will help you achieve your goal.
An easy way to keep your goal visible and top of mind is to write it on a piece of paper and put that paper somewhere you will see it every day. Maybe on the fridge or bathroom mirror or on the wall above the tv. Somewhere you will see and read it whenever you look at it.
Keeping our goal fresh in our minds helps us stay focused and it reminds us of our why. Once we lose sight of the reason behind our actions, our why, our actions begin to meander. Just like a kid that’s distracted by pretty flowers or passing goats, our actions can begin to veer off track. Remaining focused on our goal helps us move in a direct path towards it.
We accomplish things a lot faster when we are consistently working towards them rather than getting sidetracked. This focused progress also helps us build and maintain momentum which helps us feel more motivated to continue forward and more likely to see results sooner.
Never get so entrenched in the details of your current work that you forget the reason why you’re doing it in the first place.
What goal are you currently working towards?
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