3 Steps For Consistent Long Term Focus

Long term goals can be difficult to stick to📊

Especially when the going gets tough, quitting often becomes an option

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1. Narrow The Goal Down To Short Term

A long term goal is overwhelming!

When overthinking the outcome, motivation is already being crushed

If you set 3-5 tasks to complete everyday, your discipline will begin to kick in

And filter out the solitary long term picture
Say you wanted to run a marathon with no previous running experience

You won’t be able to run 26 miles off the bat right? It’s got to be broken down into a shorter amount of miles

So begin running 3 miles on a 4x a week basis

Gradually every week, you add a mile to the run
Every week instead of reaching the level of 26 miles, you focus on the smaller quantities

The climb to 26 miles will come around quicker than expected

The shorter term goals are the key to staying disciplined in the long term pursuits
2. Start At The Finish Line

During the long term goal pursuit, you can get stuck in a ‘messy middle’

This is why you should plan where or when you want to achieve the conclusive goal

Create a deadline

And hen start to reverse engineer
Instead of starting where you are now, start at the deadline!

As you work backwards, periods where you want to hit a certain standard can be chosen

Koreas University Business School found that people who define their goals backwards are a lot more likely to achieve them
3. Avoid Perfectionism By Accepting Uncertainty

Perfectionism can completely wipe your motivation

The inner doubt will start to creep in and question your validity

Start accepting that you won’t be great when you start

That comes with TIME

The answers will come with action
Setting your standards high is important

But perfectionism should be avoided

Who has ever been perfect when they begin?

And even top level athletes, artists etc have their flaws!

And you will too

Set that beginners mind and calculate your way through
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