What your goals are really about (you might be surprised)

If you want to change your life, learn something new, cultivate better habits, then there is one thing that you´ll need to have in place: a goal.

Or wait, do you really?

Goals are great. They provide direction and motivation and make sure that you stay on track. 

But goals bear some risks too:

Goals are black or white

Goals provide direction, but they naturally leave only little room for interpretation. Either you reach your goal - or not. Either you win - or lose. Either you achieve what you wanted - or you fail.  If you are not careful you might not notice all the little wins in between.

Narrow focus

If you want to reach something in your life, it is easy to get caught up in focusing on the goal alone, particularly when you are driven and motivated. But when the goal becomes the only objective, everything you do you has to support this one goal,  and you might forget that there is a life happening as well.

Goals can feel stressy

And there is another thing: focusing on your goal can create pressure. If you are someone who is naturally motivated you will like to go the extra mile, put some extra work in, and make sure you do everything to reach this goal. Great! But, this can feel quite stressful too!

And what is the point in working towards a goal - that is perhaps to lead a purposeful, balanced, easeful life - when feeling just stressed all along the way?

One mindset shift

Let me be clear, I think goals are very important if you want to create a life and career on your terms, get paid for something you love doing, and feel good and like YOU every day.

But what if you could do that without feeling stressed or pressured or behind while building that?

And what if I told you that your goals are rarely about the goals themselves?

But about something way deeper?

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It´s rarely about the goal itself - but usually about something way deeper.

When you pursue a goal, it is most of the time not about the goal, but almost always about what you hope to achieve with this goal, in other words, how you hope to FEEL once you've achieved your goal!

So in fact, you are not after a goal, a lifestyle, a certain career, BUT after a FEELING!

You want to achieve this all because you hope it makes you FEEL the way you want to feel.

Let that sink in for a moment.

The whole trick is to detach from your goals and focus on the WHY (how you want to feel) and WAY (the journey of how to get there) instead. Then, your goals will become a means to an end. They will provide direction, they will keep you on track, WHILE making sure you feel good every single day!

Three questions for you

So today I am asking you:

• What is your goal about?

• Why are you trying to pursue it?

• How do you hope to feel, live, act once you've achieved it?

  Once you know that, you will be able to go after your big targets, and simultaneously make sure that you feel good all along the way too!

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