Goal setting and Time Management

Goal setting and time management – who doesn’t want to become more efficient in these pursuits?

Let’s face it, – it’s something that we all struggle with!

Each of us has weaknesses and strengths in regards to achieving the many different areas of goals in our lives:

• Health Goals
• Financial Goals
• Career Goals
• Education and Personal Development Goals
• Relationship and Leisure Goals

Which areas of goal setting and time management do you struggle with? Have you tried to get your life together so many times before in the past, but you’ve just never gotten yourself to really focus on the needed tasks?

Do you ever secretly pray and wish that you could find a way to motivate yourself into action? Do you wish you could get yourself together?

Well you’ve come to the right place, because I am all about helping people find ways to motivate themselves into action. Motivation is one of the most mysterious human dilemmas that I am super passionate about.

Are you ready to experience another one of my “Ah-ha!” moments? What I’m about to share with you has dramatically changed my life. I call it the power of comparions.

When it comes to leveraging your success with goal setting and time management, one of my super successful strategies that I’ve used on myself and with my clients, is the power of comparisons. The best way to explain this is for me to demonstrate a personal example in the area of health.

First let me ask you – Do you constantly struggle with getting the motivation to exercise? Do you wish you had the workout motivation that would allow you to feel like a million bucks? Perhaps you feel like there just isn’t enough time?

Or, maybe you technically have the time, but you find yourself with conflicting values. Part of you wants to exercise, while part of you wants to sit in front of the television and veg. Hmmm…Sound familiar?

Now, here is where the power of comparisons come in for increasing your motivation with goal setting and time management. Are you ready for a personal breakthrough?!

Motivate Yourself Using The Power of Comparisons!

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Here is how you need to think when it comes to motivating yourself. First of all, exercising and working out is obviously something you value, or at least something that you want to value. So, compare then, all the time spent in your life, where you are engaging in activities that you don’t actually value. What activities do you engage in simply because you feel obliged to engage in?

The here, is asking yourself the following question: If I spend amount of time doing something that I don’t really care all that much about, then when wouldn’t I spend that same amount of time exercising? Why wouldn’t I give myself the gift of spending my time working out?

Here are some powerful comparisons that have been really transformational for me that have revitalized my goal setting and time management techniques as they relate to my health.

Keep reading because one of these comparisons might change your life too! Don’t you just love those “ah-ha!” moments?! Ok, ok…back on track to my personal example…

Here are a few of the comparisons I say out aloud to myself when I need to motivate myself:

If I used to get up at 6am, three times a week to attend a research and statistics class that I hated, then why wouldn’t I get myself up at 6am these days so that I could give myself the gift of a great workout?

In other words, if I’ve been willing to spend and invest my time in an activity (boring class), that I didn’t enjoy or care about all that much,and in a particular manner that I wasn’t fussy about (early morning), – than why wouldn’t I get myself to apply this same amount of self-discipline to a goal that truly does matter to me?

If I used to get myself up at 6am to drag myself to a class I cared nothing about, than why do I not demand of myself to be up at 6am to fit my exercise into my day? Do you see the comparison here?

I am comparing how I’ll easily invest time into others’ expectations of myself, but then I won’t hold myself to the same rigorous standards when it comes to my own exercise goals. It is a bizarre, yet liberating way to think about things.

So, when it comes to your goal setting and time management techniques – remember to think outside of the box! Use the power of comparisons! Compare how you are already spending time on things you don’t value, yet you are not spending time on what you do value – exercising for example.

The “ah-ha!” here, is – if I’m willing to spend time doing things I don’t value, like, or care that much about, then why wouldn’t I spend at least the same amount of time doing something that is truly important to me!??

Stay tuned as I develop my website! I will be adding many more examples on my website – examples that will create many more powerful realizations for you – whether you want to improve your goal setting and time management techniques as it relates to your health, wealth or your personal relationships – you will find the motivation here!

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