Unconventional Goal Setting Advice for When You Struggle to Hit Your Goals

Realistically, setting and meeting goals is an up-hill slog. While more traditional methods almost always result in frustration, not success. These unconventional (Boundary) busters may alter your thinking and the pursuit of intended outcomes if attaining becomes a struggle.

1. Embrace Flexibility

It is perhaps the worst mistake you can make when setting a goal because becoming too rigid will guarantee failure. When in reality it is so much more about just how unpredictable can life be and sometimes you need to adjust your original plan. Give yourself allow to stay unfastened as opposed to rigidly sticking for a time agenda because the state of affairs modifications. It also has an adaptability that will allow you to avoid adding pressure and losing your motivation.

2. Set Micro-Goals

Instead of setting a massive, formidable aim divide it into large amounts — like pages in an at-house style mag. As you achieve these mini-goals, it creates a sense of success and accomplishment to keep you rewarded as motivation. Celebrate every achievement, no matter how small to reinforce your momentum.

3. Focus on the Process, Not Just the Outcome

Changing your perspective from focusing on the end result to getting there will alter everything. Keep Travelling, keep embracing any happening for a reason — and realise that every step you have taken till now: even though your final station might still be un-discovered.

4. Practice Visualization

Not only athletes can benefit from visualizing their goals Imagine yourself doing well in that endeavor. Painting a picture in your mind about what it would take means that there is already an imagined pathway mined out for you to follow so when the time comes for you turn your ideas into actions, It has been practiced within anticipated behaviour.

5. Cultivate a Support Community

The people you choose to be around will drastically determine how successful your success with goals is. Being part of a community or finding like-minded people. Their encouragement and their support can be the little extra push you need to hold yourself accountable, while providing a new perspective.

6. Use a “Backwards” Approach

Working backward instead of going from A to B Start with the finish line and work backwards to what you will need to do. Sometimes it helps take random decisions at a time and see what things you have to focus on more which sometimes makes sense because only two weeks probably remain before the end of this project.

7. Revaluate Your Why

Reminding yourself of why a goal matters to you can re-inspire your fire. They should be spending a little time reflecting on what that goal means to them and why it’s important. Returning to your roots can help you stick with it and motivate you in the face of obstacles.

8. Allow For Setbacks

Keep in mind that setbacks are to be expected. Change your perspective on it- these are not failures, they are lesson to prove you yet again how much you can really do! In short, figure out the fail and retry — everyone encountering failure. Resilience will give you confidence over time.

Conclusion

Failing to reach your destination is part of the journey, but it doesn’t have to stop you. Within your reawakening lays potential untapped by many — one that can lead you to success through unconventional means and embracing new ideas. Charge ahead realizing that the journey is as delightful, if not more so than your destination.