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An Impossible Goal for 2021
AN IMPOSSIBLE GOAL FOR 2021
Last week I spoke about what is possible for your life. This week I thought it may help if we took the bull by it’s horns, so to speak, and get going with changing your life to extraordinary.
We are going to pick an impossible goal for 2021.
I say impossible, because you know you are going to fail, it’s a given. I hear you asking why on earth would I want to do that? Our brains have a habit of going a little crazy when you set a goal, how it won’t work, it’s not going to happen, how am I going to make it work….and so on. Now you say to your brain, I am choosing an impossible goal, it knows you are going to fail, so what now? It loses it’s ability to go back to it’s comfort zone.
So yes you are going to fail, but what you are going to gain is so much more. You are going to learn, you are going to create opportunities, you are going to get good at failing, you are going to find out what doesn’t work. These are valuable skills. What you don’t want to do is fail on purpose, this looks like avoiding working on your goal, not taking action, making excuses, lowering your standards, giving up and not following through. This kind of failing doesn’t serve you.
If your goal is offering a webinar and you hope 20 people show up and no one does, this is a good fail. Advertising your business and you don’t get a bite, this is good, learning to surf and you spend more time in the ocean because you keep falling off – good. Be willing to fail, it grows you, it makes your world better.
Even though you are failing you are learning, you are out there offering a webinar, offering your business and surfing.
So you are going to fail, what is the worst that can happen?
You are going to feel shitty! Yes and this is so bad, why? It is just a feeling and shitty feelings go away at some point, you can make them go away. Your thinking is what causes your feelings. So you only managed to stay on the surf board for 10 seconds, so what? Next time you will do better, next time it may be for 30 seconds. Won’t you then feel a little better? If you are just willing to feel the feelings of failure on your way to your impossible goal, you won’t give up.
Feelings are harmless, if you are willing to open up to your feelings of inadequacy, fear, embarrassment, eventually they will go away.
Now do a bit of brainstorming on what your impossible goal will be, write 2 full pages of possible impossible goals you would like to focus on for 2021. It can be anything, think big, think wild, just dream!
Once you have done this, pick only ONE! Don’t let your brain go into confusion and overwhelm. It’s an impossible goal and you know you are going to fail, so any goal you do pick is guaranteed to make you grow. At the end of 2021, you will be a completely different person. Remember your goal must be specific, measurable and results oriented and impossible.
This goal must be something you really want and you must like your why, it must be worth working towards and meaningful for you.
Now let your brain loose.
Let it go to every imaginable problem it can come up with why it’s impossible, every single excuse, complaint, whine. Let it all out and do this until your brain can’t think of anything further thing to moan about.
Then get your brain to work on overcoming every single obstacle, what would your strategy be, what else could you be thinking to get you closer to your impossible goal.
Remember the whole idea is not to achieve your goal, the aim is to learn, to fail and to have fun. It is to do whatever it takes to work towards your goal.
Lastly..
…write a list of 25 things you are going to do in order to work your way to your impossible goal. These have to be actions you are going to take, things that are going to move your forward towards your goal. You have 4 months, until end April, to do these 25 things. Beginning of May you do the same thing, do another list of 25 things you are going to do for the next quarter and so on.
At the end of the year you will have done 100 positive actions towards your goal. Tell me you won’t be an extraordinary person by the end of 2021!
In the comment section, please tell me what you have chosen as your impossible goal is for 2021…
A xxx
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