Linda Johnson (Break Free Now)
Feeling stuck? Coach Linda shares practical strategies to overcome common obstacles and achieve your goals. She explains why many people fail and how to avoid pitfalls like poor pl...
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What are some steps we can take to keep progressing?
So what are some of the things that we can do? How can we get unstuck? What are some of the steps to freedom that are tried and true, that have been tested? Well, step one is to set your intention. What is it that you want to accomplish? Visualise it. There are reasons that people create vision boards so that they can see it. So that, yes, I can do this. I have a friend who had a picture of a big white house next to the table in her apartment. She had it for years. I would go over and I'd look at it and go, okay, that's a nice image. But do you know what? Within 15 years she got that big white house. Now, she had to plan for it, but it started with the vision being so real for her. She could see it, she could feel it. She could taste it. When you are that committed, when it's that real to you, then you can see yourself doing it. Next, commit to living in the truth. Stop making excuses for why you haven't done it. I didn't because I didn't have this, or I wasn't that. Well, if it were not for that circumstance, that is not why. It's because you did not set an intention and be realistic. Envision it, and then take some kind of action. Tell someone about what it is that you want to do. Write it down, and then allow this person to hold you accountable. Say, Hey, you know what? When I've done it, I will send you a text, and after a while they're going to say, okay, you said you do it by Tuesday. I haven't received a text. What's going on? Then, hopefully in this sense, in a good way, embarrassment will set in and then you'll say, you know what? I really have to do it. I said, I would without excuse. You'll get it done. Try something out. It might work, it might not. As the song says, if at first you don't succeed, dust yourself off and try again. So don't allow the failures along the way to stop you from your goal. That's just how it goes. Try it. Celebrate along the way. Don't just celebrate when you get to the end. Celebrate along the way so that you're motivated to go there. Winning is not just finishing. Winning is trying. So watching this lesson is step one. The next step is up to you.
What Keeps Us From Reaching Our Goals?
There are many reasons we don't reach our goals. One of them is we don't set ourselves up to succeed. We don't plan it. We can't envision it. We never wrote it down. We never shared it with anybody. It was a pipe dream and we treated it like that. We didn't take ourselves seriously. Sometimes it's just because something didn't mean enough to us, and that's okay. But sometimes something really, really does mean something to us, and sometimes we just can't get off home base.