Why You Should Focus on Daily Objectives to Reach Your Goals

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You may find yourself frustrated about not reaching your goals year after year. You are well intentioned and pumped up during fleeting moments, then you self sabotage and miss the mark again. This tends to happen because you are overly focused on the end result and end up subconsciously panicking about failing. This is why you should instead focus on daily objectives to reach your goals.

Remember when you focus too long on the past it could lead to depression, too much on the future and it could lead to anxiety, so focus on the now.

The way to combat this and finally make more progress than you ever had before is focusing on daily objectives. In fact its almost like you split your main goal into tiny daily goals.

Think Kaizen method, which is a work methodology for continuance improvement, where small tasks are considered to bring big results over time.

There is also a similar accepted rule in the world of self improvement called the The Pareto Principle, better known as the 80/20 rule, where 80% of results comes from just 20% of input.

Well How Can You Put This to Use Now?

On your todo list describe the steps of your goals in a task like way and make it sound as simple as possible, to trick you’re brain out of realizing you’re sneaking out of the comfort zone. You have to think of it as convincing a genius child, who wants to live their best free of responsibility life, to do as you say.

Here are some examples:

Drive to the gym to start 5 minute warm up for workout
Rinse and stack dishes to wash them quickly
Tie trash and set by door to take out
Jot an outline for the project to fill in the parts easier
Read 5-10 pages of a book to bring up in conversation and be able to answer, “What’s it about?”

Hopefully this gives you an idea. You want to remove as much resistance to diving right in and starting. You want to make your daily objective a simple task that pushes you in the middle of already being started, by the time your brain realizes what’s going on I promise 90% of time you’ll be too far into the task or energized to stop.

After practicing this you’ll realize it’ll start to be an unconscious habit. The day before your cleaning day, you’ll be organizing here and there, to make the cleaning process faster, or you’ll save a new music album to make it lively and fun.

Apply this Today

Go ahead and get started on making great progress to your goals. Remember to be gentle with yourself on the days when you’re feeling off or you encounter a human who wants to spread misery. It’s okay to have a pity party but never overstay your welcome.

If you somehow have access to the internet and can read this article that means you can reframe your daily tasks from “I HAVE TO”, into “I GET TO.” There is ALWAYS time to chase your goals and if an asteroid comes for earth, be happy in knowing you were in the midst trying.