Know your why (DW#314)
If you are planning to achieve something significant this year, you will lose inspiration and motivation along the way. Almost guaranteed.
So what will keep you going?
People who keep going after the initial inspiration has waned do so because they recognize and remember the meaning and purpose of their goals.
In other words, the reasons WHY they set the goal as they did are front and centre in their minds. This is what keeps them going when the going gets tough.
Research in psychology shows that meaning and purpose are strong motivating factors for people. In one study, for example, two groups of mountain climbers rated the difficulty of climbing certain hills. Those climbers who had a strong sense of purpose thought that the hills required less effort to ascend and weren’t as steep as those who did not have this sense of purpose.
What can we learn from this?
If we want to achieve something big this year, we need to ask
ourselves what it means for us to get this done, to achieve this goal? What is the bigger purpose? How is it aligned with our values?
And then to write it down and keep it visible.
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