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When it comes to defining and attaining objectives, many individuals prefer to focus on the broad picture – the desired outcome. While having a clear end goal in mind is essential, it may also be daunting and scary, particularly if the aim is exceptionally ambitious or complex.This is where the notion of tiny victories comes into play.

In today’s fast-paced and competitive world, achieving success often goes hand in hand with productivity. The ability to accomplish more while feeling less stressed is a coveted skill among high achievers.

Nobody wants to fail and everyone wants to succeed. Every day, people are struggling to reach their goals and achieve success. A failure is a painful event and one that almost all of us work tirelessly to avoid.

Elon Musk has a great saying:“Stop being patient and start asking yourself, ‘how do I accomplish my 10 year plan in 6 months?’ You will probably fail but you will be a lot further ahead of the person who simply accepted it was going to take 10 years.”Musk was right. You don’t have to play it safe and be like everyone else.

What goes wrong when goal setting? You’re 42% more likely to achieve your goals by writing them down. (Dominican University Research)… but I’m sure most of you have realized writing down your goals doesn’t equal accomplishing them. The first step in accomplishing your goals is identifying what prevents you from achieving them.  For context, I helped over 170 people set goals last month, and when I see people struggle it typically ties back to these 3 reasons. Avoid These 3 Mistakes When Goal Setting: For example, a lot of Moms have a goal that sounds like, “I want time for myself.” Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great goal but how will you know you achieved it? Is 10 extra seconds to yourself a success? To make it more specific it should sound something like…“I want 30 minutes for myself at 8 am M-F starting June 1st, 2022, or I want one hour for myself at 7 pm M-F starting June 1st, 2022.”“If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.” – Lou HoltzI have definitely fallen into this bucket too many times to admit. I had to learn the hard way that setting massive goals can become extremely stressful.

American philosopher Will Durant once said, “We are what we repeatedly do.” Therefore, being excellent is not a single act, but a habit. Have you ever questioned how you choose to spend those precious 24 hours we receive every day? I bet you have.

If you ever want to make progress, you need to have a goal-setting strategy. But I find that a goal-setting strategy alone isn’t enough for us to achieve our goals, you need to be creating a goal-getting strategy as well.

Everyone’s always talking about their GOALS. They want to make it seem like they’re making some great big strides toward some region of perfection that they’re going to nail like a bullseye with their focus, intention, manifestation, whatever.

When you look at successful people, they get a lot more done than other people can. Despite breathing the same air they breathe and having the same 24 hours a day, they get ahead in life.

The rain fell heavily from nowhere as we were driving back home from a business meeting. My husband was driving and before we knew it, it grew dark, started hailing, and we couldn’t see the way.

If you have some larger than life goals you want to accomplish, it’s going to take more than determination to get you there—at least if you want to get there in the most efficient way possible. Thinking big is great, but if you don’t have a system for exactly how you see yourself crossing the finish line of your goals, you can expect some delays in getting there.When faced with larger and more complex goals, it can be easy to get lost in the weeds along the way and wind up off track.

Setting goals at the start of the year means you will know exactly what you need to do throughout the year to be successful. By setting goals, it forces you to build a plan about how you intend to achieve those goals.

The year was 2017. Ninety-nine year old Annie was pictured smiling as a policeman handcuffed and led her into a cell.

Three years ago, I wrote down 100 goals in my journal. It was harder than I thought it would be.

Many people are living in mediocrity and most don’t seem to get anywhere worthwhile because they lack direction. They have no idea what they want out of their lives.

Setting goals is not a new concept. We have all set goals for ourselves at one point or another. If you have spent time in the collegiate system, you likely had a few classes on setting goals.

If you’d like to learn how to deal with change in your life so you can constantly adapt, sign up for the free 90-Day Master Class hosted by the founder of Addicted2Success.com, Joel Brown.Change – What is it teaching us? Change is hard not just today, but every day. And change has the ability to feel even more difficult when it is “forced” upon us.

If you’d like to learn how to succeed in the areas of your life most important to you so you can live your best life, sign up for the free 90-Day Master Class hosted by the founder of Addicted2Success.com, Joel Brown.I’ve personally never met someone who hasn’t had or doesn’t currently have success on their mind. I do believe we all have unique and different views on what success means to us, but nonetheless success is something that we strive for.

If you’d like to learn how to properly set sustainable goals so you can accomplish them and improve your life, sign up for the free 90-Day Master Class hosted by the founder of Addicted2Success.com, Joel Brown.Most people get goal setting all wrong. Goal setting is not a complicated thing.