Write Your Goals Daily

Write Your Goals Daily - On Purpose

It’s too easy to get distracted now days, we live in an ADD world where something or someone is always demanding our attention.

It’s too easy to lose focus on your goals and forget them for a little while, next thing you know a week passes by a month a year and you never looked at your goals or made sure you were on a path to achieving it.

Energy is the only thing that you have, and it is the thing that connects us all and to everything we do. If your energy is spent elsewhere you won’t reach your goal.

Have you ever noticed that when an idea is new it lights you up and you get excited by it? And the longer you have the idea but never do anything with it, it seems to lose steam, it slowly burns out and isn’t as exciting anymore.

Once you have the dream, the goal, the spark, and small flame you need to feed the fire and keep fueling it.

What idea, what dream, what goal have you had for quite some time and just never seem to accomplish it. Think about that for a second, is there a book you have wanted to write, a business you wanted to start, a job you wanted to quit, a language you wanted to learn, maybe it’s losing weight or just becoming the best version of you?

Its starts with the desire and grows into a goal. Most people do this around new years or big birthdays when they are reminded to look at the clock and calendar.

The big challenge is that we typically over-estimate what we can do in a week or a month and severely underestimate what we can do in a few weeks or a few months of concentrated work.

Imagine that goal that you really wanted if you really stayed committed to working on it every day. Just doing one little thing that moved you a tiny bit closer every day simply because you rewrote that goal every day, feed it energy and kept the idea / dream / goal burning bright every day.

What would it look like when you actually reached your goal? How amazing would you feel? Close your eyes and imagine that for a minute, you finally reached that goal that you may have been striving for the past month, or year, or 5 years.

Now imagine that your goal became a reality simply because you stayed focused on your goal by writing it every day. Wouldn’t it be worth a try?

Try it out, every morning before you get into the “Morning Race” the race to get to the kids ready for school, and you get to work, take just a minute or two to write your goals out.

Start taking refocusing on you by building a morning routine that sets you up for success.

Start by writing your goals every day.

The Momentum of the Morning

Wake up on purpose

Have you ever experienced a morning that just didn’t start quite the way you thought it would?

You hit the snooze button, you think you are getting extra time in bed then you started the day off on the wrong foot, maybe you stub your toe and it set up the rest of the day to just suck. The morning sets the tone for the rest of the day!

Maybe you spilled coffee all over yourself right before you’re walking out the door or you left the coffee mug on top of the car and backed out of the driveway and fell off and spilled all over the place. How many rough mornings like these have you experienced:

  • The alarm was set for PM not AM and you were late 
  • Stubbed your toe walking around the bed
  • Hit the snooze button more than three times
  • Coffee didn’t brew at the right time
  • Got a speeding ticket on the way to work
  • Kids missed the bus
  • Kids forgot their lunch

Yeah, I think we’ve all had those days.

You see we’ve even had those weeks where Sunday or Monday kicked it off on the wrong foot maybe you got a ticket driving to work where you missed one of your kid’s practices and it set the tone for the week and you just had a rough week. You get to the end of the week and you are just fried saying, “Holy crap this week kicked my ass!”

Yeah…I’ve had a couple of those.

Hell, I’ve had months like that!

It was just a rough month that everything seems to just stack up and everything seemed to be against me. I’ve even heard people talk about a rough year and they can’t wait for this one to be over. They wish the year was over… they look back on all the experiences, all the negative things that are stacking up and wish away six or seven months.  They feel that there was nothing they could do about it, bad things just kept on happening.

We all get to choose what it is we focus on, but when we have mornings that start off on the wrong foot and we stay focused that, our thoughts continue to swirl around how mad or frustrated we are. Sometimes we even take it as a sign, a sign of how things are going to go for the day. 

Now we are projecting that forward and as we focus on it, more and more our thoughts swirl around it, and our feelings of aggravation, frustration, and stress continue to build. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, that’s what we see more and more of when we do that throughout a day. 

Hoping that the next day is going to get better but we’re still focused on what frustrated us the day before. The more we think about it, the more upset we get, the more we focus on it, and as the saying goes, where the focus goes energy flows. 

We can build a day that we never wanted and that day turns into a week, those weeks to turn into months and finally, months turn into years. This is how people end up having a rough life. 

This all started because of how we woke up 

and stubbed our toe?!?!?!?

 

This is your start your morning in … “The F.A.S.T. Lane”

Frustrated – Anxious – Stressed – Tired

What has been taken from you?

Illusion of Control - Instinct

The new reality is forcing us to take a hard look at everything we do and everything we “knew”.

Schools are closed. Parents are working from home expected to be productive employees, teachers for our kids, and keep their lives together while the world around comes to a screeching halt.

Daily routines are destroyed.

Normal everyday activities of getting a cup of coffee gone.

Eating has changed as we stockpile food in the freezer.

Stores are empty people are losing patience and we are just getting started.

The video above is meant to remind all of us of the “illusion of control”

We think we are in control until it gets stripped from us.

We all have just one thing that we actually control…

If you are thinking it’s yourself, you are only partially right. Your body at some point you will lose control of that too.

If you are thinking it’s your Thoughts, closer, but even those are habitual. We have 50k – 60k thoughts everyday and for the most part, they are the same as the day before.

The one thing that you control is your energy

The energy of your thoughts.

The energy of your emotions.

The energy of the actions you take.

First we need to be aware that we really don’t have control, we have the illusion of control in normal circumstances when everything is going smooth.

But in times of turmoil we are slapped in the head with how little control we actually have.

Accept.

Accept where you are, Accept this is just the state we are in right now, Accept it for what it is.

Now Consciously Choose how you are going to respond to what is happening.

So many people are looking for leaders that are willing to step up in tough times and start creating a sense of normalcy again. Who is going to lead us through this turmoil?

This is the first in a series of posts, videos and webinars I’ll be doing to provide a break from all the crazy media, the empty aisles of toilet paper and stir craziness of the kids being home all day… everyday.

Join me as I talk to other coaches, leaders, parents and many others about finding purpose in turbulent times.