Do you know your WHY?
Bruce King
SME support. Strategic planning, sales, marketing & personal development strategies for world-class success.
Do you really know WHY?
We all know why goal setting is so important and it’s likely you have set some for 2022. But unless you are totally clear WHY you want to achieve those goals, at the deepest levels of your consciousness, it’s most unlikely you will achieve them.
This post details an exercise you can do which will help get your WHY deeply set into your conscious and unconscious mind and increase the likelihood of you achieving your goals very many times over.
It will take some time to carry this out, but trust me, it is going to be so worthwhile.
Taking just one of your goals at a time:
Take a pen and paper (typing is not as effective) and ask yourself:
WHY DO I WANT TO ACHIEVE THIS GOAL and write down your answer.
When you have done that, ask yourself AND WHY DO I WANT THIS? ‘This’ being the answer to your first question. And write the answer down.
When you have done that, ask yourself AND WHY DO I WANT THIS? ‘This’ being the answer to your second question. And write the answer down.
And keep repeating this as often as you need until you are totally clear why you want to achieve this goal.
Yes, it’s time consuming and sometimes frustrating. But it’s the subsequent answers that will go deeper and give you greater motivation and commitment.
When you have your real WHY, you will be in a much better frame of mind to achieve that goal.?
Having completed this exercise, you might realise that the goal you first set is not what you really wanted, and you may decide to set a new one. That’s OK. Just repeat the exercise over again with that new one.
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