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Forget SMART Goals and Achieve Your Vision
If you keep on setting the same resolutions and goals every year, now is the time to approach them differently. Try this!
You might know all the secrets of being successful and yet there are goals that matter to you that you are not reaching. You always feel that there is a piece missing so you keep learning, you keep reading and taking courses but you end up thinking that maybe the missing piece is not about knowledge but is within yourself. Maybe there is something wrong with you? People must think you are a failure because you don’t seem to be able to achieve what others do.
There is nothing wrong with you — and honestly, others are focused on themselves not you so you may as well stop worrying about what people think. It is our ego who thinks others are judging us. It is our ego who is judging us, calling us failures and keeping our gaze on the outside and worrying about what others think. The only people who might think we could be or do more are actually the people who love us the most so we don’t have to worry about them.
The biggest obstacles we face are our thoughts. They are what is keeping us stuck: our thoughts about our age, our power, our lack of time, money, support, energy, singularity or knowledge, about the little agency we have over the different elements of our life and what we think people are…
