Knowing your goals is important, but did you know there is actually something even MORE important to consider when you set out to reach any goal you set in your life? And this spans the board from health goals to relationship goals to career goals.
Here’s a hint: The method you choose to get to your goal is the way you have to sustain it. Want to hear how this applies specifically to you?
Watch the video below (and if you are getting this from email, click through to see the video, here.)
Wow! This is so smart and so true. Great way to go about making lasting changes in any area and very timely as well. Thanks Lisa!
Thanks for commenting, Donna! I love how this applies across the board, too.
Loved!! Can see how this is applicable not only to wellness-related habits but other lifestyle changes – including what you are hoping for career-wise : )
Totally, Angela– using this as a guide for my own career choices as we “speak” 😉
Excellent! My goodness… you keep pushing me to evaluate my perceptions and focus on being authentic! Thank you!
Thank YOU for showing up here!! and you’re welcome 🙂
Oh WOW!! That is really just amazing. What a simple concept and yet one that has ALWAYS been missing. No wonder I struggle in achieving goals. I’d love to flesh this one out more…
Awesome…I love LOVE lightbulb moments!
This really resonates with me! Currently, I’m using an exercise program I love – I enjoy it, look forward to it and can see it as part of my lifestyle. I’m also exploring whole foods, figuring out what we can sustain and what will cause me throw in the towel and drive through KFC! It took me forever to realize that addressing my health had to be a long term lifestyle issue. But I never translated it to other areas of my life, like chore routines, new homeschool curriculum, budgeting, etc. I’m thinking of all the abandoned books and charts that I never saw as part of my daily life, but only as a way to get the outcome I wanted. As a result, they never “stuck.” Thank you for posting this. It sounds so simple, but I can see what an impact this type of thinking will have!
Yes, Tami- So fantastic to hear you are applying this in so many ways!
This is brilliant! I know that achieving any goal will take time, effort, sacrifice, etc. But, I’ve never thought about what kind of work maintaining the goal would take. Thanks for giving me some food for thought.
Exactly, Sharon- and it’s the maintenance that makes or breaks our success!
Lisa,
I have been working on a 100 year old house and have been having a hard time finishing it. Your video just brought up why I have been having a hard time finishing, I don’t know what I want to do when I have finished it. So now I am working on what I will do with all my time once I have it done. You were my angel today and I am so lucky that the Lord always send me angels to help me with my life. Thanks again for your fresh way of looking at my goals. Carole
I love the counter-cultural, even subversive, nature of your idea. It totally flies in the face of the “quick fix immediacy” that so many of are addicted to 🙂 instead requiring slow thoughtful investment.
This abbsolutely resonates with what I’ve been struggling with. My “wall” is knowing the tactics to achieve my strategic plan. The inter-related nature of personal development gets me overwhelmed, too. For example- I wish to lose a bit of belly, improve our homeschooling logistics ( I have 5 & 9 yo sons), consistently apply principles of unconditional parenting without disciplines that are based on punishments or rewards in the “heat of the moment.”
I know things like interspersing exercise throughout my day is a tactic, as is meal planning, creating a school schedule, creating “reminders” of parenting ideals I have and strewing reading materials for myself that encourage my consistency are all tactics to apply. I do well for a time and then slide. I hop back on, but feel naggingly like I’m not making true progress.
Maybe the journey is just meant to be this bumpy?
That is so powerful and makes so much sense! I am trying to make changes to my eating habits (less red meat, sugar, white flour/pasta, etc) which has been fairly easy during the short-term for just me, however I need to determine how it can work for my entire family if it is going to be sustainable.