Professional Excellence Tip

Top 10 ways to reach a goal faster

1.    Install a consequence that really, really hurts!

2.    Hire a short-term coach who will help you make it happen.

3.    Break the goal down into important pieces and enjoy the momentum as you accomplish each one.

4.    Link the goal to one of your values so that it becomes an expression of yourself rather than this “thing” that you’re working on.

5.    Know the next goal you want to accomplish, even before you have fully started on the immediate goal.  This creates perspective and context, making the current goal look so much easier!

6.    Find a way to be rewarded as you go.  A runner sips water continually – they don’t gulp it down at the end.

7.    Start feeling and acting as if the goal has already been reached and then just do what it takes to “finish” it.

8.    Eliminate the consequences of non-performance and just work on taking daily actions instead – get your juice from taking action rather than measuring up to the goal.

9.    Set an earlier end point and orient everything around reaching the goal by then. 

10. Change the goal so that it can be reached easily.  Who says you should pick only the tough goals?!

Adapted from “Working Wisdom”, Thomas J Leonard

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