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Ignite Your Motivation To Achieve Your Goals
Some goals are important to us but not so exciting to work towards like losing weight. To keep going, you will need to ignite your motivation. Let’s explore how you can do that!
Michael Bungay Stanier, bestselling author of The Coaching Habit, encourage us to be ambitious for ourselves in his new book, How To Begin. He defines a worthy goal as being something thrilling, important to us and daunting.
The secret sauce of successful goal setting is to make sure that the goal is at the intersection of those three elements.
Write down why your goal is important, daunting and thrilling before you think of your strategy because this is where you will go back, again and again, to reignite your motivation.
Important
Listing all the reasons why your goal is important might seem like a pointless exercise because you just know it is, however, digging deeper to find even more reasons will reinforce your determination.
For instance, you might want to lose weight to look better this summer and that’s important to you but can you find other reasons why losing weight might be…