Tag: goals

The most ridiculous goal

Posted on by philipdodson

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Think of the most ridiculous goal that you have been storing away in your head, maybe for a lifetime.

There will be something burning away in all of us, that we have dismissed year after year, and convinced ourselves that we can’t do it.

Perhaps, if your most ridiculous goal is to fly to the moon unaided, then perhaps it might be worth keeping that one at bay, but other than that, what have any of us got to lose by trying something?

It may seem ridiculous to us simply because of the story we have told ourselves and, to be honest, ridiculous is very subjective. We will have labeled the idea ridiculous as a way of excusing ourselves from doing something that is outside our comfort zone.

After all, the graveyard is full of people who never tried that one thing.

Be ridiculous for once.

Never break the chain

Posted on by philipdodson

Apart from being in the lyrics to this well-known Fleetwood Mac song, if you want to build habits, commitment, then build a chain and never break it.

If you take a task or habit, or anything you want to build or achieve and break it down into daily commitments. Grab a calendar or use my new favourite killer app Productive and mark a cross or swipe done each day, it is like building a ‘steel chain’ of commitment to something.

The longer the chain gets the stronger it gets and the less likely you are to break it.

Habit is all about repetition and going back each day and continuing to cut the new pathways in the brain.

Never break the chain and watch how your productivity becomes stronger and stronger.