How to do the impossible
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How to do the impossible
My coach has us setting impossible goals at the beginning of the year. When I first heard this concept I thought it was quite ridiculous. Why would you set a goal you know for a fact that you can’t achieve, that you are guaranteed to fail at? Once she explained the reasoning behind it, it now makes perfect sense.
One of the rules of making it in business and being successful is rather contrary. And that is failing. You have to get really good at failing. Now none of us much like failing, but if you knew that after failing a bunch of times, you would be a success, would you be willing to fail? If you speak to any successful businessperson, they will tell you they tried a whole bunch of things, some things worked and others didn’t. Mostly they failed for the longest time and then it seems almost overnight, they became a success. Except it is never overnight.
Goals
Now if you set a goal that stretched you, but was doable, you would only work and try things to the point when you reached your goal, right? Now setting an impossible goal means that you have to work so much harder and try so many more things to get closer to that impossible goal. In the process you will have learned so much and become the person who is on the way to that goal. It stretches you beyond what you think you are capable of.
How to do the impossible
First step is to pick an impossible goal, just one. For example if you have a monetary goal of R500k, double it, if your goal is to lose 25kgs but actually you want to lose 50kgs overall, make that your impossible goal. Then for the next 3 months plan on doing 25 things to achieve that goal. Think of all the things you will need to do. Now you may say you do not know what that could be. Come up with some ideas, as farfetched as they may seem, put them on the list. Do some research and figure out what else you could be putting on the list.
You will not succeed in these. Know that. Why do it then? Because you will learn things you don’t know, you will grow, you will get to know yourself better and you will find better ways at doing things.
Brains are going to freak out
Your brain is going to want to go back to what is reasonable and doable. It’s going to want to bring you back to comfort. Don’t allow it. Do the things on your list even if your brain throws tantrums and tells you, you are going to die. You won’t.
If you try and avoid failure, you are losing out on the opportunity to learn. Failing is not fun, agreed. However, failing is not the problem, it’s your thoughts and feelings about failing that have you hesitating. You may feel embarrassment, humiliation, frustration, defeat, fear. These are only feelings. If you are willing to feel these emotions, there is nothing stopping you.
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Failing is how you win
Would you rather do nothing, which is failing ahead of time or do the thing and fail and learn something from it? These are known as worthy fails. From these fails you will gain wisdom, experience and understanding. Remember the worst thing that can happen when you are failing is a feeling.
Once you have picked your impossible goal, brainstorm the 25 things that you will do in the next 3 months. After the 3 months brainstorm another 25 until you get to the end of the year, you will have tried 100 different things. Go all in on these things
Why is this goal impossible?
Answer some questions for yourself as well. Why is this goal impossible? What do you need to do to make it possible? What qualities would you need to nurture? What thoughts would you need to think? What kind of person do you need to become?
So instead of focusing too much on the end result, focus instead on the journey, what you will be learning, how you will be growing. By the end of the year you will have moved so much closer to your goal and know for sure what you will need to do next in order to achieve your goal.
I know you can do this!
Till next week.
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