Goal Setting: Essentials 5
The way we express our goals matters a lot. Sometimes there is a difference between six and half a dozen. Welcome to Leading Right – a presentation of Life Africa. My name is Abiodun Fijabi
Six and half a dozen may be wide apart depending on the situation. If your target is to reach no 7 and you are on a 6, a positive way to express your position is to announce to yourself you are on a 6. Just one short gives you the impetus to go on. You are not likely to get that kind of a feeling if you were to express your position as half a dozen that provides no psychological relationship with you’re your goal.
This is true of the description of a cup that is filled at the half-mark. There is a huge psychological difference between half full and half empty. If your goal is to fill the cup, then half full will provide you a psychological boost to reach your goal. Half empty will remind you where you are coming from but not where you are going. Now, it is a different ballgame if your goal were to empty the glass. Half empty will be a better description than half full to provide you the Impetus you need to reach your goal.
Since goals are action-oriented, you need all the psychological boost you can get. That is why great goals are usually expressed in positive rather than negative statements. Positive statements tend to energize you. “Rise up early” is a much better goal than 'Don't oversleep you idiot” You might want to say, “Get going: read a book a week.” That is positive and motivating. This is unlike “Do not end your week without reading a book,” which plays on fear. Fear is not always the best way to motivate you into action.
Dear listener, have you surrounded yourself with negative statements in a bid to reach your goal? Perhaps your do no write down those negative statements but they are locked in the inner recesses of your mind. Well, that is just as deadly. You can have much more fun with yourself and your goals if you express your goals in more positive statements.
Now, you don’t have to believe that. Just give it a try. Is there a goal you have always wanted to accomplish and have not been able to be you have been approaching it from the negative angle? Now, try and approach it from a different angle this morning and experience a new level of motivation. If for example, you need to start writing a book, write on a sheet of paper, “Go for the book today!” and say the same to yourself. With God’s help you will rise up to a brand new day in the realization of your dream.
Give yourself a psychological boost today by positively expressing your goal.
Six and half a dozen may be wide apart depending on the situation. If your target is to reach no 7 and you are on a 6, a positive way to express your position is to announce to yourself you are on a 6. Just one short gives you the impetus to go on. You are not likely to get that kind of a feeling if you were to express your position as half a dozen that provides no psychological relationship with you’re your goal.
This is true of the description of a cup that is filled at the half-mark. There is a huge psychological difference between half full and half empty. If your goal is to fill the cup, then half full will provide you a psychological boost to reach your goal. Half empty will remind you where you are coming from but not where you are going. Now, it is a different ballgame if your goal were to empty the glass. Half empty will be a better description than half full to provide you the Impetus you need to reach your goal.
Since goals are action-oriented, you need all the psychological boost you can get. That is why great goals are usually expressed in positive rather than negative statements. Positive statements tend to energize you. “Rise up early” is a much better goal than 'Don't oversleep you idiot” You might want to say, “Get going: read a book a week.” That is positive and motivating. This is unlike “Do not end your week without reading a book,” which plays on fear. Fear is not always the best way to motivate you into action.
Dear listener, have you surrounded yourself with negative statements in a bid to reach your goal? Perhaps your do no write down those negative statements but they are locked in the inner recesses of your mind. Well, that is just as deadly. You can have much more fun with yourself and your goals if you express your goals in more positive statements.
Now, you don’t have to believe that. Just give it a try. Is there a goal you have always wanted to accomplish and have not been able to be you have been approaching it from the negative angle? Now, try and approach it from a different angle this morning and experience a new level of motivation. If for example, you need to start writing a book, write on a sheet of paper, “Go for the book today!” and say the same to yourself. With God’s help you will rise up to a brand new day in the realization of your dream.
Give yourself a psychological boost today by positively expressing your goal.
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