How To Stay Motivated Towards Your Goals

Most people begin the year with new resolutions or goals to get started. Unfortunately, only a few achieve them. 

Recent studies reveal that less than 10% of people who set goals achieve them. What does this small category of people do differently? 

One reason people fail to achieve their goals is that they lack focus. With so many activities competing for our attention, it is easy to be distracted from those productive ones that directly impact our goals positively. 

Here are three suggestions for focusing on your goals this year to ensure that you achieve them.

Carefully Think Through Your Goals

As much as you need to be realistic, you should also be sincere with yourself. 

What is the real reason behind the goals you have set? 

For instance, why do you want to earn ten thousand dollars a month for example?

Is it a borrowed goal? 

In what ways would it benefit you? 

Do you have all the necessary resources? 

By honestly examining your motives, you find strong convictions to keep you going even as things get tough. Also, you would be more willing to dedicate your resources towards achieving them.

Be Accountable

Another way you can stay focused on your goals this year is through accountability. 

One way of being accountable is collaborating with people with the same goals. For instance, if you plan to increase your affiliate earnings, you could join a transparent, well-structured group established for that purpose. 

Most affiliate marketers use this means to achieve their financial goals. You could also share your plans to get started with people you know who succeeded in the area of your focus and ask them to keep you accountable. 

Some people turn to the internet community for accountability, for example, by blogging about their journeys. 

By doing so, you would benefit from their valuable experiences and much-needed encouragement. Staying focused on your goals requires commitment; being accountable makes the whole process easier.

Develop The Right Attitude

What happens when you get started, your zeal fades, or when you are confronted with threats beyond your control? 

Will you quit, or will you still forge ahead? 

People who achieve their goals factor in these events and don’t abandon their plans when they happen. 

Find new ways to inspire yourself. Rather than focus on the challenges you will face, think of new ways to solve them. Let the progress you would have made, no matter how little, inspire you. 

You must develop the right attitudes of persistence, diligence and determination to pull through.

When we focus on our goals to achieve them, we place ourselves in a position where we have more control of our lives. 

Self-confident, driven and focused people will conveniently take on more challenging tasks.