By Lori Thayer
Want to reach your goals more quickly?
Set your mindset for success with these tricks.
We all want a successful happy life.
You are probably like me and have many goals you want to achieve. Whether these
goals are for business, home, family, or self-improvement, setting your mindset
for success is key.
Without a proper mindset you may find
yourself distracted by daily life or experiencing shiny object syndrome. Shiny
object syndrome is when you are always distracted by the latest and greatest
idea, so you rarely follow one path through to the end.
You may have decided you have all the
time in the world to reach these goals. Will you feel the same way in 5 years
if you haven’t reached them yet? If you
look back 5 years, what did you plan to achieve at that time? Have you achieved
those goals? Why or why not?
If you set your mindset for success,
you will reach your goals more quickly and will then find yourself with the
opportunity to create new, and possibly even bigger, goals.
Develop
Success Habits
1. Create systems
to keep yourself on track.
2. Make a small
step toward each of your goals each day.
3. Capture all of
the information that could help you.
a. Take a quick
note on your phone while you are out for a walk so you don’t forget.
b. Clip all
articles and inspiring ideas for later reference.
4. Create the
to-do list for the next day the night before.
5. Prioritize
your to do list.
6. Tackle the
most dreaded task first, as everything else will feel like a piece of cake
after.
Once you’ve implemented one or more of
the above success habits for over 21 days, it will become much easier and a
part of your routine. At that time, you can add in another mindset for success.
Feel free to try implementing them all at once, but for most people, that much
change to their routine is overwhelming and they are dooming themselves to
failure.
Make
Better Decisions
1. Start making
executive decisions — you are the CEO of your own life, so begin taking charge
and making decisions as if you were being paid for those decisions.
2. Apply mental
filters.
3. Run decisions
through an “if this, then that” scenario in your mind.
4. Consider the
worst case scenario.
5. Keep your end
goal in mind. Does the choice fit with your goal or take you in a different
direction?
6. Distance your
emotions if they are really strong. A gut reaction is great, but take a step
back if one of the choices really engages an emotional response in you. Come
back to make the decision when you can be a bit more objective.
7. Learn from
your failures by asking yourself what you learned from the experience.
8. Stop the
negative talk in your mind.
9. Know your
strengths and weaknesses.
10. Ask for
feedback from colleagues.
11. Be able to
process both positive and negative feedback in a constructive manner.
12. Learn how to
“correct yourself” when you find yourself going too far or not keeping in line
with your goal.
13. Develop core
competencies that will help you reach your goal.
14. Be
results-focused.
15. When you
experience a setback, don’t dwell on it. After doing an assessment, move on to
the next thing.
16. Don’t be
afraid to make a course correction when necessary
17. Stick with
your decisions in most cases; constant course correction makes the road 10
times as long.
Decision-making is a huge key to
success. We make many decisions each day, and they either take us closer or
farther away from our goals. Do you know what effects your decisions are having
on your goals? Spend a few minutes thinking about the last few decisions you’ve
made and decide whether they are in line with your goals or taking you farther
away from them.
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