Get Yourself A Goal Buddy
Setting goals is vital to any milestone one hopes to achieve. Keeping these goals is even more essential. Motivational speakers, videos or books help set you up straight, but they aren’t always enough. Even self-motivation fails us at times.
It is important to back them up by surrounding ourselves with people that push us to achieve our goals. This might be one of the best motivators. Mission.org says “The American Society of Training and Development (ASTD) did a study on accountability and found that you have a 65{54d2fcdcd494adb6982253be6fe8d5492e5f586157f419110131714f9092ec60} chance of completing a goal if you commit to someone.”
Say, you just left a three-day weekend conference that ended with a special session with a motivational speaker. You are charging out those doors with fire in your soul and a notebook of strategically organized goals, complete with a daily step-by-step how-to guide to accomplishing them. You get home and start putting things in place. Day 1, you check all your boxes. Day 2, Day 3…then by Day 11-13, things slow down. One month later, you don’t even remember what you were so fired up about. Next thing you know, another conference is coming to town. Rinse and repeat. Before you know it has been four years of back and forth and there’s nothing to show for all your work. It’s time to break the cycle.
Zig Ziglar once said “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.”
So today’s nugget? Find someone to partner with you on that project. Get a work-out buddy. It is a healthy symbiotic relationship of encouragement and anyone who wants to realize their goals needs one. Not only are you constantly motivated but you also have someone that keeps you accountable. Sometimes, the other person might have strengths that you lack that would make achieving your goals easier.
In case you don’t have someone you can partner with, there are websites that offer services to link up potential partners. You can find them on Google. One of them is Goalbuddy. So go out there, partner up and achieve your goals!
