Reaching your Goals - New Year edition.
In the spirit of upcoming New Year, I want to touch on the Motivation concept in terms of Career goals and aspiration.
Even before one is motivated to work on his/her goals, he/she needs to have confidence in their abilities to reach that goal. It is very easy to have lofty goals in terms of Career aspirations or Business or Personal matters.
Most of us start out with good intentions to reach our goals. We lay out our plans and exhibit confidence that we can reach it. But something funny happens in the way, as the time goes by, we become complacent in terms of our actions. For example, a simple thing like starting an exercising regiment, we often start with vigor and give up very easily after few weeks/months. The passage of time does make you loose steam in your actions. We start convincing ourselves that one day without exercise would not do any harm. But the truth is, that is the starting point for down slide of our confidence. Do not fall victim to the passage of time, which diminish your confidence and motivation.
To keep you going towards your goal, start writing journal/notes everyday and log every small achievement you make towards your goal. This would help look back and see what you did wrong and when you lost sight of your goal and helps in achieving your next goal. I am sure all of us have given up on things within our reach, just because, we didn’t want to make that extra effort or make extra time to achieve that. You don’t want to repeat that again and again and loose your confidence in yourself. Documenting every step would help see, who we are and how susceptible we are to the passage of time.
When it comes to Career or Personal goals, it is a long journey before we reach our goals. It is very important not to loose your confidence to achieve that goal. Without confidence, your motivation evaporates.
To maintain your confidence, you need to think back about the time when you achieved your goals and visualize the fruits of your journey. The easy thing anyone can do is give up your dream easily and fall back to routine. This is called Comfort zone. In this state, we are very happy about our existence and don’t want to change the equilibrium. But comfort zone is a dangerous thing in one’s life. That is the death of your exciting life. Sounds rough but it is the truth. Comfort zone would only keep you going for few years after that, you curse yourself for not having bigger goals in your life. You feel like you have wasted your talents and skills.
As long as you are confident about your capabilities, you can come up with new goals even if the old goals fail. Confidence in your self keeps you motivated to achieve your goals. Not all goals can be achieved but the journey will teach you a thing or two about your capabilities and will stay with you for long time.
So with that, I wish you all a wonderful New Year!