Hit Your Goals by Avoiding These 3 Pitfalls

by: Anthony D Carter
When setting your goals it is important to keep in mind certain factors that will limit your success. Here are 3 pitfalls to avoid.

Pitfall: Not Writing It Down. When you neglect writing your goal down you allow distractions to take over. It will seem like everything is more important than your dream. Pretty soon you won’t even remember what your goal was. How can you hit a goal that you can’t even recall?

Solution: Write your goal down on the back of a business card or on a index card. Write it down in the present tense. Keep that card with you. Look at it throughout the day. Read it out loud from time to time. In this way you program the target into your subconscious mind.

Pitfall: Making Your Goal Too Big. If you make your goal too big you set yourself up for overwhelm. Once you are in a state of overwhelm your confidence suffers. You will feel like you can’t do it. You’ll also feel like there is no use trying since you can’t possibly hit your goal anyway.

Solution: Break your goal down into manageable segments. Once you hit the goal for one segment then you can move on to the next. With each successful completion of the previous goal you will gain confidence and gather momentum. If will become easier to set and hit your bite-sized goals on the way to hitting the major goal itself.

Pitfall: Not Taking Action. A dream is just a wish when you refuse to take the necessary action. There is no way you can hit your goal without taking action. Talking about doing something is not work. Neither is thinking about doing something. If you don’t do the work you don’t stand a chance of hitting your goal.

Solution: Get moving. Take action. Take massive action towards hitting your goal. Be willing to do the work and then just go about doing it. Once you start it becomes easy to keep going, but you must begin taking the necessary steps. Once you are doing the work according to a sound plan your success is virtually assured.

Avoid these three pitfalls and you will avoid the common mistakes most people make when attempting to set and hit goals.

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