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Originally Posted by CaptScrummy  I actually have five very specific goals that I want to accomplish over the next 12 months. The challenge is that I get up every morning with the intention to do what it takes to achieve these outcomes, but I seem to mentally/emotionally deflate rather quickly. I just can't seem to pull my thoughts together or truly get excited about my dreams... |
If you have a problem with "deflating," maybe the goals you have aren't really waht you want to accomplish after all. Are they things you genuinely want to achieve? Or are they things you think you
should want to achieve? Are you ambivalent about these goals in any way?
I ask this because from what I've seen, people who passionately want something with every fiber of their being and make it their goal to have it don't have problems staying excited about it.
But then again, another possibility is that you're demanding too much of yourself in achieving these goals, and each step seems too big. If your goal is to be King of the Pirates, "Step 1: Arr! Build a ship!" is going to seem like an insurmountably huge task. Where the hell do you
start? It's enough to make you want to go back to bed. So try to break each step down into smaller steps ("Step 1: google pirate ship plans. Step 2: find source for ship timbers. Step 3: locate suitable shipyard, preferably near water. Step 4: Find hammer...").
Write a list of the things you need to do, and if there's a way to break one thing down into two or three smaller tasks, do it. Then try doing one small task a day to start, and cross it off the list when it's done. If you do two or three, great. The point is to do something every single day that will get you to your goal, no matter how insignificant it may seem. And the more things little things you do, and the more progress you make, the easier it is to motivate yourself to do the big things.