Reaching your Goals

I like to think of goals as Point B—that place you want to get to from here (Point A). Obviously, you want to find the quickest path that gets you from Point A to Point B. This idea, though simple enough, can be surprisingly hard to do.

We all struggle to get to Point B.  Staying focused on it, without losing hope that we can ever get there, is tough.  It’s  easy to become distracted and then beat ourselves up for not making progress.

I learned a great tip—it’s the best one I’ve ever used to reach my goals.

Every day, ask “What am I going to do to make my life better today?”

Not yesterday, or earlier that day—that’s in the past.  Not promises or predictions about the future, either. What are you going to use today—to reach your goal?

You cannot get away with the same answer for long, so be realistic about what you’re going to do to make the world a little better between that moment and when your head hits your pillows.

You might tell yourself that your Point B is “six pack abs,” “to weigh what I did in college,” or  “lose 30 pounds.” These are big goals that can take months or years to accomplish. So big, in fact, that it’s easy to get tripped up trying to plan, strategize, out think, and power through.

All you really need to do to make progress today is to remember that you can. You can make your life better today by making choices that eventually add up to that big goal.