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Not Getting What You Want? Time To Change Your Actions
One of my favorite quotes of all time is by Albert Einstein:
“Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
Are you doing something over and over in your life and for some reason or another, expecting different results to manifest? Whenever you want to see a different result – be it a positive change, an improvement in your performance or realization of your goals – you have to do something different from whatever you are currently doing. In goal achievement terms, it’s changing your strategy to reach your desired goal.
Change Your Actions to Get Results You Want
Why is that so? Because whatever the actions you have taken thus far aren’t giving you the results you seek. Say ABC actions have been giving you ABC results. If you want to get XYZ results, you need to adopt XYZ actions. Repeating ABC actions again and again isn’t going to give you XYZ results – It’s just going to give you the same ABC results indefinitely.
Applying this principle to your life goals, this means:
If you have been trying to lose weight but somehow aren’t anywhere near your goal despite…
Published Aug 25 2009
Filed: Goals & Success
Tags: change your actions, Strategy
Using Your Environment to Achieve Your Goals
Leveraging on your environment is one of the strategies I outlined in Part 4: Strategy of my 7-Part Goal Achievement series. This is one of the most important strategies you can utilize in achieving your goals.
Why Environment Plays A Role in Achieving Your Goals
Some people have no problem setting goals, but they do not rope in strategies to achieve their goals. They think goal achievement is all about relying on (a) brute force and (b) sheer desire. While both factors are very important, they can only get you that far, especially for larger goals. There are two reasons:
Firstly, motivation is a fleeting quality. Your motivation fluctuates within a certain median, depending on your level of consciousness, who you are with, what you are doing, the experiences you are faced with. While you may experience moments or periods of peak motivation, this peak motivation does not last for an extended period of time. More reliable methods are needed to achieve our goals.
Secondly, your environment largely determines how your energy is utilized. For example, suppose you have water, a mug and a basin. What happens when you pour the water into the mug? Water, having no definite…
Published Jul 27 2009
Filed: Goals & Success
Tags: environment, Strategy, structure
Skills Development
The importance of skills development can’t be stressed enough. Behind every successful goal achievement, comes proper skills development. (more…)
Published May 18 2009
Filed: Goals & Success, Skill Building
Tags: 10000 hours, leveling up, skills development, Strategy
Quitting To Win
When you hear the word ‘quitting’, what do you think of?
Many of us have been brought up with the notion that quitting is bad. We have been imbued with many negative perceptions of the act of quitting.
If you are like most people, you will likely have one or all of the following preconceived notions of what quitting means: (more…)
Published Apr 29 2009
Filed: Career & Work, Family & Friends, Goals & Success
Tags: failure, quitting, Strategy, success, victory, winning
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