A goal needs a deadline and a process. It sounds simple but I just read that phrase today in a fresh way.
If I don’t have a deadline, I’ll procrastinate every time. Also, if I don’t have a process worked out to get to that deadline, I will be overwhelmed and I won’t do the work that is necessary to get the goal accomplished.
The process needs to include what I have to do each day to get me to the deadline with my goal completed. This process needs to be very, very practical and straightforward so I either do it or don’t each day. There can’t be any wiggle room. I shouldn’t be able to say that I did a little bit of my daily step. And I shouldn’t be able to say that I did something to warm up to my daily step.
Either I do the daily thing or I don’t do the daily thing. And their needs to be consequences if I don’t such as having to do extra on another day in order to catch up. Mistakes are okay because I’m not perfect but there are consequences to those mistakes.
Setting goals and,more importantly, accomplishing them is about being relentless and not giving up.
