Goal Achievement Tip: Mind the Gain #goals #shorts

26 Mar 2024 · 1 min

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In this motivational short, the speaker urges viewers to balance forward focus with periodic checks of the "rearview mirror" to recognize the incremental progress made toward their aspirations. By adopting sustainable, micro‑stepping goal‑setting systems, small gains compound over time, revealing that we have advanced farther than we often realize. The talk also acknowledges that outcomes are influenced by health, circumstances, and other external factors beyond our control. Nevertheless, when we pursue goals with intention and integrity, the journey itself becomes a rewarding experience.

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And the last one is just this idea of checking the rearview mirror as often as you look out the windshield. We are aiming aspirational creatures. We, when we're looking down the road at where we want to be, we are paying attention to the gap. And that can be really discouraging. We need to look in the rearview mirror every once in a while and realize that this microstepping process, and by following sustainable method of setting and achieving goals, that we are making incremental progress that compounds over time. And when we check the rearview mirror, we'll see that we've come a lot further than we thought we had. And it also reminds me that the results that we want are really not completely up to us at all. Our, uh, health, our situation, other people, external circumstances around things that happen in life can all conspire against us getting the things that we say we want. But if we are approaching those things and defining those things and our system for getting them with intention and integrity, the journey itself becomes its own Reward.