Goal setting at the new year is common. And if you looked at my posts last week I referenced new years resolutions and how to either succeed or fail at them. Today is more of a reference to how to fail, but mostly how to sabotage your goals.
Your goals are easy to sabotage. If they weren't, would the goals you made last year be successful?
Wouldn't the goals you made this year be different than last?
It's not because you lack the motivation, but the accountability to achieve your goals. Everyone's motivated to lose weight, to save money, and whatever else may be their goal. Who holds you accountable
for these goals? Do you have a coach, a training partner, a stockbroker, a spouse, even your dog to tell and keep you accountable for these goals?
Motivation is easy, accountability is hard. You can be motivated to lose weight, but without being held accountable for your actions, it's a sabotage of your goal. Accountability is the opposite of self-sabotage.
Who do you trust with your goal?
Why do you trust them?
My accountability is being held by my wife and my friends who undergo the same torture that I go through (lifting & fat loss). We use the "team" approach, which allows for more than 1 person to hold accountable.
Finally, to achieve the strength and determination to accomplish my goals, I pray. Laugh if you will, but prayer is powerful and necessary to live a wonderful life. So, not only are my wife and my friends my accountability partners, but Jesus is too. I pray for success, for accomplishment, and to be granted with the ability to carry out God's will, not my own. This is the ultimate way to block sabotage, as no one can sabotage the Lord.
So who do you trust? I trust the Lord. Why do you trust? I trust Him because he can do all things.
My success is His, and my failures are mine. Trust in the Lord, as your friend, accountability partner, and guardian and all things will be done.
Your goals are easy to sabotage. If they weren't, would the goals you made last year be successful?
Wouldn't the goals you made this year be different than last?
It's not because you lack the motivation, but the accountability to achieve your goals. Everyone's motivated to lose weight, to save money, and whatever else may be their goal. Who holds you accountable
for these goals? Do you have a coach, a training partner, a stockbroker, a spouse, even your dog to tell and keep you accountable for these goals?
Motivation is easy, accountability is hard. You can be motivated to lose weight, but without being held accountable for your actions, it's a sabotage of your goal. Accountability is the opposite of self-sabotage.
Who do you trust with your goal?
Why do you trust them?
My accountability is being held by my wife and my friends who undergo the same torture that I go through (lifting & fat loss). We use the "team" approach, which allows for more than 1 person to hold accountable. Finally, to achieve the strength and determination to accomplish my goals, I pray. Laugh if you will, but prayer is powerful and necessary to live a wonderful life. So, not only are my wife and my friends my accountability partners, but Jesus is too. I pray for success, for accomplishment, and to be granted with the ability to carry out God's will, not my own. This is the ultimate way to block sabotage, as no one can sabotage the Lord.
So who do you trust? I trust the Lord. Why do you trust? I trust Him because he can do all things.
My success is His, and my failures are mine. Trust in the Lord, as your friend, accountability partner, and guardian and all things will be done.
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