Yes, I know that it has been a while since we started the year and that perhaps doing an article on how to achieve goals will be late. But I also know that the vast majority of us make New Year's resolutions that although we take them with great enthusiasm, as the days go by we lose motivation and February arrives and we have already given up on that proposal. It no longer seems such a priority to us. We are also in winter. Much better to postpone it for spring that we feel like much more and we are with more energy and spirits.
In the event that you are a hard-working and committed guy who has achieved or continues to meet the goals that he set for himself, CONGRATULATIONS! Surely this article does not make you much need. But if you are part of the group that repeats itself year after year this year yes yes, this one I take it seriously, finally I will learn to speak English and I will hook up with a Swedish woman in Benidorm or from This year it does not happen that I quit tobacco and alcohol; so keep reading that what comes next interests you.
It is very likely that when you read or hear the words goals or objectives, two others will come to you that we usually associate with them as motivation or willpower. Well, the best thing is that you forget these two concepts. Although they sound very good, the truth is that both have a very short life. And no, sadly you can't manufacture more motivation or willpower. And even if you could create more, they would end again.
That is why I recommend that you replace them with routines / habits Y constancy. For which you do not need to develop any special force or spur to drive you. No, it will only be enough that you are committed to your goal and every day you do a small task that brings you closer to it..
And to help you in this, I am going to give you 7 keys that will make you change your habits and achieve what you set out to do:
Many times the main problem that we do not achieve our objectives is that they are poorly planned. We overestimate what we can achieve in the short term. And it is very common that after a while we see that the goal we set is very big and this leads to frustration.
To avoid this, it is highly recommended that we decompose our objective into other small objectives. In this way, it will be preferable to propose lose half a kg / week than 12 kgs in 6 months. It will be much more convenient for us to comply and quantify.
Although it is true that the ideal is not to generalize and that there will be habits that will cost us less than a week and some will take months, it seems that among psychologists and scholars of the subject there is a considerable consensus that on average acquiring a habit requires 21 consecutive days.
Three weeks I think is a good midpoint that seems quite achievable to implement a routine. Let's take an example: Imagine that you want to eat healthy and leave processed food behind. If you tell yourself, I want to eat healthy from today until forever, An immense ocean opens up for you and the least you falter at seeing such a great challenge you will quickly throw in the towel. You better think, I'm going to eat healthy for 21 days, for now that marks me, just 21 days.
Calm, that later the law of inertia will do its job ...
When setting an objective, we have to visualize an ambitious goal, which is achievable in the long term, but aim high. Of course, to achieve this ambitious goal you will have to subdivide it into other smaller goals and act and progress little by little..
For example: You decide to learn English once and for all. Don't tell yourself: I am content with learning to communicate the basics to myself; know how to order a beer in a bar, indicate my address to a taxi driver, etc ... No, go for the advanced level, learn to speak it without problems and master the language. Start by learning the alphabet and colors, if necessary, but your main goal is a good command of English.
Does the phrase of Aim for the stars and you will reach the moon?...
If we want to achieve our objectives with guarantees it is very important that we let's get away from everything that will invite us to sin and he's going to invite us to procrastinate one more time.
Examples: If our purpose is to eat healthy and lose 15 kilos; It is a bad idea to have the remains of the nougat and marzipan that have been left over from the Christmas parties.
Continuing with the same example; It is also not recommended that if your time to go to the gym is at the end of the afternoon and you leave work at 6:00 p.m., you get home and lie on the sofa to taste the entertaining programs that they give on TV, while you do time to go down to the gym.
Anticipate, make it easy for yourself, your environment has to conspire in favor of your goal.
This aspect today is quite easy to achieve thanks to the Internet. In the network you will find different groups, networks, websites and forums of people who are in the same situation and with you will share a common goal. In this way, you will give each other support and encouragement when the bad times come and you need someone to pull you.
If you can achieve the same with people around you, all the better.
It is essential that we enjoy the process. It will be much easier for us to be consistent and meet our goals if we make that path a game. If we have fun.
Imagine that you have set a goal to do an hour of elliptical every day. This habit will provide you with benefits in terms of health and aesthetics, but the fact of being for 60 minutes in one of those machines can be quite tedious. Better then, you find a way to distract yourself while you are using it. For example, you can watch some chapters of your favorite series or you can listen to a podcast of that radio program that you like so much.
Or if you want to learn English, surely it is easier for you to learn it by watching series or listening to songs than by listening to the typical audios of the typical English course.
It is important that on the long way to reach our goal, we have small rewards. Many times reaching a certain goal can take time and psychologically it suits us well that small triumphs are celebrated.
That your goal is to get up early in the morning, because every morning you get it, you have a delicious coffee, or you go down to have breakfast at a good cafeteria. That you have been lazy and your sheets have stuck, you stay at home drinking private label cocoa.
Of course, we will have to be careful when rewarding ourselves that these are in line with our objectives. If you have managed to follow the diet for 7 days, do not think about the eighth day going to celebrate it to eat at an all-you-can-eat fast food buffet.
And that's all. I hope you have found all this information useful and put it into practice. And if you dare, write below in the comments how you carry your resolutions, is there any objective that resists you?
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