Are You Setting Yourself Up For Success or Failure in 2008?

by Shelley Taylor-Smith (founder of Champion Mindset Consulting & The Think like a Champion Club)

On the list of bad habits that prevents success in all arenas of life, one of the worst has to be the setting of goals that are just so unrealistic, and it would take a superhero to achieve them.

Now to be clear, there are few unrealistic goals, but there are unrealistic time-frames. For example, losing 20 kilos is possible for anyone that has that much extra weight to lose, but to set a goal to lose it all in a month is ludicrous. It could only happen if you don't eat anything for a month and if you run 5 kms per day. See? Unrealistic. And this habit is as common as the common cold. When you can't possibly reach your objective, it will become obvious pretty quickly, and so you'll quit completely. Failure.

But Champions set high yet realistic goals with realistic time-frames, have realistic schedules and have extraordinarily high rates of success.

When you let go of all traces of "wanting it all NOW," you will achieve more faster with less stress, with more peace and a much higher opinion of yourself all along the way.

Yep, you'll release all these rotten patterns and so many more by aligning your GPS – Goal Planning System so you achieve your goals and success right now!

If you want to achieve more in your life, then eliminating the ways of thinking that stall you, that cause you to freeze, that create fear of failure and success, that make tasks look impossible, that cause you to quit is not an option...

...It's a necessity.

To hammer home the point, imagine you are in a small boat miles from shore and you've sprung a leak. The water is rushing in, filling the boat. You can empty bucket after bucket, trying to get rid of all the water that is sinking your boat, but unless you patch the hole, you're probably going to sink.

That's the way it is with clearing out your unsupportive mental patterns. If you don't get rid of the reasons for the fear or reluctance to doing a specific task related to your goal, you can kiss that goal goodbye before you even begin.

When the pain you are in is greater than the pain it takes to get out of your comfort zone and change, quit and/or embark on a new quest…then you are READY to set yourself up for Success.

Shelley Taylor-Smith, founder of Champion Mindset Consulting & The Think like a Champion Club, Mental Toughness Coach and Motivation Teacher; Passionately committed to supporting you achieving your goals with less stress and more success, guaranteeing you have fun at the same time!
www.championmindset.com.au