How to stick with a goal when you want to give up!

Goal is a great word and has so many meanings. A goal in sports can be kicked, thrown up high, or hit over a net and so many other versions of sporting goals. The exhilarating feeling that comes when a goal is achieved increases a person’s heart rate, serotonin levels producing an euphoric state in the mind. Sports is a healthy activity for so many reasons.

But there are other types of goals that may produce the same effect when achieved. Have you ever wanted to achieve something that you felt so passionate about. That all your thoughts are centred on this goal.  Nothing would satisfy you until you achieved this goal. Have you ever felt this way?

On the other hand, have you ever felt so despondent that you have given up on your goal because of thoughts of failure. But placed in your subconscious mind, every now and then thoughts about your goal return. The subconscious mind never forgets what the heart truly desires.

Successful people, may not always tell you how many times they failed before they achieved the level of success that they wanted. Ralph Waldo Emerson taught:

“That in which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed, but our power to do so is increased.”

Two partners that may influence you to give up on your goal include Self Sabotage and Imposter Syndrome. An attack from these two can disable anyone from achieving a goal.

When you Self Sabotage you get in your own way of achieving a goal by creating beliefs and excuses why something can’t be done or supposedly why it’s not working.  Imposter syndrome, its cousin, is just as conniving. It makes you belief that you really can’t achieve your goal and that you are a fake, and delusional.

When you entertain these negative limiting beliefs about yourself, you need to replace them:

1. Find a cheering squad, friends and people to cheer you on.
2. Use powerful affirming words that will have a positive effect on your behaviour, direction, and success.
3. Pin up motivational quotes everywhere in your home, at work and put them in places where you will see them every day i.e. hand bag, suitcase, pocket. It doesn’t matter what anyone else thinks because the passion you feel is yours alone, others don’t have to understand or ‘get it!’

Remember “while you’re busy doubting yourself, someone else is admiring your strength” Kristen Butter

Reasons why we might not achieve a goal it’s because we don’t believe we can.  If you can think it, dream it, imagine it long enough you can ACHIEVE IT!