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I often hear from professionals that even though they start off well with their career goals; they end up struggling to maintain the momentum. Their most common refrains are that either other priorities took over or they were too busy to make time.
As I coach professionals, I often hear from them that even though they start off well on what they want to pursue, but end up struggling to maintain momentum. Their most common refrains are that either other priorities took over or they were too busy to make time.
As a result, their goals soon fall by the wayside. Sometimes these goals remain on the wish list for so long that they start feeling like pipe dreams.
Given below are three things that you need in order to set yourself up for success to achieve your goals:
What does your goal mean for you on an everyday basis? What does it mean for the people around you? What gets precluded by virtue of your goal, e.g., if you sign up for an evening class to upgrade yourself, you will not be able to drop your child to her football practice.
What else will you not be able to make time for when you start making time for your goal? Michael Porter aptly says that the essence of strategy is deciding what not to do.
Figuring out what you will stay away from determines how much time, energy, and focus you will give your goal. Without this boundary, you may be overcommitting yourself.
So think about:
While planning, as humans, we tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a given period and underestimate the time we need to do something.
Make sure to know the extent of your bias in the early stages, so you can readjust your plans. Smaller milestones, steadily achieved, are more likely to take you to your ultimate destination. Small successes create positive feelings, strong motivation, and improved performance.
Therefore, you need to prioritize figuring out how you will know that you are moving in the right direction, so you can course correct quickly if required.
Consider getting outside support to achieve your goals. No matter how driven you are, having additional support for achieving your goals significantly increases your chances of success.
People who support you can brainstorm ideas with you, help you reflect, challenge your assumptions, call out your biases, cheer you on, give you a different perspective, and hold you accountable to your commitments.
You may be lucky to have such people in your circle to play these different roles for you, or you can engage a coach who seamlessly wears these hats to co-create your success.
Three crucial aspects that heavily improve your chances of achieving your goals are:
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UP Boards Topper Prachi Nigam was trolled on social media for her facial hair; our obsession with appearance is harsh on young minds.
Prachi Nigam’s photo has been doing the rounds on social media for the right reasons. Well, scratch that- I wish the above statement were true. This 15-year-old girl should ideally be revelling in her spectacular achievement of scoring a whopping 98.05% and topping her tenth-grade boards. But oddly enough, along with her marks, it’s something else that garners more attention – her facial hair.
While the trolls are driving themselves giddy by mocking this girl who hasn’t even completed her school yet, the ones who are taking her side are going one step ahead – they are sharing her photoshopped pictures, sans the facial hair, looking nothing less than a celebrity with captions saying – “Prachi Nigam, ten years later”.
Doctors have already diagnosed her with PCOD in their comments, based on photographic evidence. While we have names for people shamed for their weight – body shaming, for their skin colour- racism, for their age- age shaming, for being a female- sexism, this category of shaming where one faces criticism for their appearance has no name. With that, it also has zero shame attached to it.
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