Why you are not reaching your goals

How to set a goal you can reach

 

"I'm going to lose 2 stone this year." 

"I want to run a marathon in under 3 hours by April." 

Does this sound familiar to you? Not specifically the goals stated above, but do you set an unrealistic, outcome based goal which leaves you with the same feeling of disappointment when you realise you have not achieved your goal? 

Year after year, the majority of people step into January with the motivation, passion and hunger to achieve, but then let themselves down after they only set what is known as an outcome based goal.

My advice to you is to put your outcome goal to the back of your mind. This would be a goal such as wanting to drop so much weight, or gain so much muscle. Still have these goals, but just put them to the side for the minute. 

What I want you to really do is think of how you are going to achieve this huge, sometimes unrealistic outcome based goal. You need to add in what are known as behavioural goals. These types of goals are ones which we have control over. So therefore, if we have control over them, it is our choice to complete them, and if we complete them we are more likely to achieve whatever we want to. 

 For example, if you want to lose 2 stone in weight, you should really be focussing on a behavioural goal such as attending the gym 3-5 times per week. You could also focus on eating healthy at least 6 days of the week. Or if you want to run a sub 3 hour marathon, your behavioural goal should be to complete more long distance runs per week.

Without a behavioural goal, we simply have a set number, an outcome based goal floating around our head, and we plod along without direction making us less likely to achieve anything. 

Add in behavioural goals and focus on these to really achieve your goals! 

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