Make reading your goals daily a personal development habit.
Now that you’ve set your goals how can you make sure you keep working toward them? Sticking to your goals is a personal development.
When making new years resolutions and setting personal goals for the year most people dont write them down. So we quickly forget out good intentions. Many will already be feeling a tad guilty because they havent quite followed through on their good taking the first step toward their goal. And over the next couple of weeks the goals will be forgotten.
That’s why its important to write you goals down. If you haven’t planned your most important goal for the year see yesterdays post.
The key to success in achieving your personal development goal, is persistence. You can learn any skill if you put your mind to it. To do it you just need to persist. There will be days when you strike out and it feels like you’re going backwards faster than forward.
If you read your goal statement every day at least twice a day. There will even be some days where you might think its impossible to achieve. Yet persist. Stick to saying your affirmations and reading your goal statements daily.
It takes 21 days to instill a habit and it must be 21 consecutive days. If you keep it going for 30 days your personal development efforts will gain momentum.
So get yourself a nice sized calendar and every day that you read your goal statements at least twice a day make a cross through that day. The trick is to keep connecting crosses next to each other.
Once you have 21 crosses connecting it looks quite impressive. What’s more you probably notice some progress toward your goals.
What if you miss a day? Persist, do over, get the 21 crosses next to each other. The trick is to get up and go again despite stumbling. Don’t give up. Persist because I can guarantee in the beginning you will have misses or near misses in reaching your target every day for the first 21 days. Learning a new skill takes persistence.
Keep track of your new habit of reading your goals daily on that calendar and you will discover the power of persistence.
© Alex K Viefhaus