In the pantheon of self-improvement buzzwords, âempowermentâ feels among the boldest. To empower is to literally give power to yourself. It feels intimidating in its grandiosity – as if the act of personal empowerment requires a life-changing act (or something to remember, at least.) It may feel difficult, then, to actively push for a personally empowered life. However, misvaluing its importance in the grand self-improvement scheme of things is an error not worth committing. To personally empower yourself allows you to organically grow confidence as you can firmly say yes, I did choose myself today. Achievements become more likely when you instil empowering levels of confidence in your mindset.
Goals
Why Successful People Embrace Goal-Setting
Do you believe that setting goals is an important ingredient in success? Or to put it another way, how successful do you think you would be if you didnât have goals? If you got up every day and allowed your day to unfold without direction, how do you think it would turn out?
Although having free time to relax and just let whatever happens form your day can be nice on occasion, most of the time if you want to reach your dreams and desires, you have to make an effort. And that effort involves goals and planning.
Life is like navigating a journey. And the first step in any journey is knowing where you want to go.
How to Set and Achieve Your Goals in 2024
A new year is on the Horizon. This is a time when many people start to think about what changes they can make through goals or personal resolutions.
Whatâs the difference between a goal and a resolution? Well, a resolution tends to be a starting point, such as making yourself a pledge to begin exercising more or eat better.
A goal is more focused on a specific endpoint, such as losing ten pounds in six months, or walking for 20 minutes every evening after dinner. A goal has planned steps and measurable success.
So this year, when you think about what you want to accomplish in 2024, you might consider setting goals instead of new year’s resolutions. But where do you start?
Where To Start When Youâve Procrastinated On Your Goals For Too Long
Most people have goals. Personal goals, professional goals, fitness goals, and many other types of goals. Some are short term and are achieved quickly and easily. Others may take much longer. Some goals may literally take a lifetime.
We generally have goals over the course of a day or week. And can check them off our lists with little difficulty. But what about the bigger goals? Or goals we donât really want to do in the first place? What if we have goals set for us by our boss or other obligations that we need to accomplish but just canât seem to get to? And now itâs overdue. Time is running out and we havenât even started. What then?
What if youâve procrastinated too long on your goals and now you donât even know where to start?
10 Questions You Need To Ask Yourself Constantly
Life is a process. We are always working on making improvements at a pace that works differently for each person. By constantly reassessing our thoughts and actions, we can know where to make changes to meet our goals.
Here are 10 questions to ask yourself frequently. Write them down and look at them on a regular basis to help know yourself better and navigate your course with clarity and awareness.
9 Life Hacks to Help Motivate You to Achieve Your Goals
Finding the motivation to work towards your goals can sometimes feel like pulling teeth. Your body and emotional state reject every attempt from your mind to get you to feel excited and energized once again. You know youâve felt motivated before, and it felt great! So why canât you feel that way all the time? Why do you have to feel so uninspired?
Luckily, our minds and bodies arenât static. They change, and depending on what we do, we can cause new emotions to arise. When youâre in a state of demotivation, you can actually hack your body to start feeling motivated again with some simple tricks. Using these hacks, youâll be able to change your emotions at will and re-harness that excited, inspired energy.
The Power of Staying Committed to Your Goals
The power of staying committed to your goals is that you actually accomplish them.
Commitment is the key to seeing your dreams, hopes, and, yes, goals, come to fruition. Because goals are inherently difficult to achieve. They take a lot of effort and time. The tricky part is, of course, applying the same amount of effort over a long period of time. Once you are able to really commit in this way, youâll see massive results.
But staying committed to a goal is tough. How many New Yearâs Resolutions have been abandoned mid-February when we lose our motivation? How many half-completed workout programs are there? How many goals have we had that we now donât even remember anymore because we abandoned them?
How to Master Consistency to Achieve Your Goals
When my brother became a math teacher, he told me that there were three types of students in his class.
The first kind of student did less than 40% of the homework, crammed for the big test the week before, and ended up failing the test.
The second kind of student did about 60-80% of the homework, studied a bit for the big test, and ended up skating by with an average grade.
The third kind of student did 100% of the homework, didnât study very much for the big test â and no matter what their ability or talent level â usually passed the test with a high B or better.