Goals are dangerous… if you are not careful…

Ever taking months to achieve something and once you got that deal, won the award, got your PB, or your team won the season and wondered what next? Is that all there is to it?

Spent days, weeks, months or longer putting yourself through the pain, discipline of focus and sacrifice to realise the feeling of attainment is very short lived and leaving a hole? Did you ask ‘ Was that worth it?.

Goals will drive you while they are still being chased or hunted. Once the hunt is over and the ‘kill’ made, what then.

There are a couple of key things that come out of this.

I’m all about being disciplined, ticking boxes and remaining focused doing a great job in the lead up to the final attainment, achievement or ‘kill’. What I do know now is that if you don’t have a celebration planned and a new goal set before you reach the end zone, things can become pretty flat, pretty quickly.

A few things play out. Your momentum wains, your focus wonders, you’ll be easily distracted and quickly having a feeling of no direction and under achievement.

Having that compelling next goal, that aligns with your WHY will carry you through.  Often you will find that next goal is more exciting and brings challenges and energy that glides you through the celebration stage. The feeling and sense of satisfaction, growth, achievement and increased confidence will fire you up to take on the next goal with renewed drive. This approach, like a muscle, will continue to grow and get stronger.

If you don’t have that big next goal, understanding where you are on areas of your life and what needs to be done to improve them and get different outcomes is one way to overcome a potential flat spot. Achieving a big goal is to be celebrated and when the time previously allocated becomes available you can reallocate it to other projects.

In the Hero’s Journey we look at a number of areas of your life and rate them. Through the rating process we learn what is working and what is not working so well.

While there maybe that consuming goal there are always other areas that will need attention and renewed focus to bring improvement. Improving in the fundamentals will lead to incremental improvements that underpin your confidence and capabilities on those bigger, over arching goals.

Areas of your life that you may want to consider in the mix are; the exercise in our program that covers these areas is called the Wheel of Life.

Career

Finances

Fitness / Diet

Spiritual

Relationships / Friends

Family

Personal Growth

Fun / Adventure

Across all of these areas of your life you will find the next priority that you can seamlessly move across to. Having this in place will reduce any potential lag or feeling of emptiness that may occur.

Plan a holiday or adventure straight after, give yourself some time to consider ‘what next’ challenge what you had planned and see if you need to tweak your current plan. When you arrive back home you are renewed and ready to go.

My experience is that when you deliver on a big project it brings energy and enthusiasm to other areas of your life. It’s a snowball affect.

If you would like to learn more about Goals and setting yourself up for ongoing, continuous success, creating incredible momentum, drop us a line.