Do You Truly Want to Achieve Your Goals Badly Enough?

Posted on March 20, 2013 by Anne Bachrach, One of Thousands of Business Coaches on Noomii.

What’s the difference between someone who achieves their goals and someone who just dreams about them? The starting point is always their level of desire, and how bad they want it. Try to remember a time when you heard how someone defied all the odds and achieved something that seemed impossible. You might have been stunned by their sheer determination to achieve their goal. What gave them their determination? They wanted it bad enough. Their desire led to a choice which set their desire into motion. They learned to make only those choices that supported their goals. And if they can do it, you can too. Achieving your goals doesn’t have anything to do with where you’ve been; you can always get to where you want to be – if you want it bad enough.

Try this exercise. Think about something you really want. Maybe you want a better job, more money, or to be more fit. Whatever it is, make sure it’s something you really want. Close your eyes for a moment and imagine how you would feel already having achieved it. Feels great, doesn’t it? You probably had feelings of excitement and got butterflies in your stomach – that’s good!

Now compare how you felt during that exercise with how you feel about your current reality. Do you feel differently about them? Chances are you do. You shouldn’t necessarily have “bad” feelings about your current reality, but my point is to distinguish the discrepancy in the “great” feeling between what you really want and what you currently have. You have to want your dream life bad enough to make a choice. That choice is to live a life that makes you feel great.

Most people stay in their current reality because they don’t want to deal with the sacrifice and frustration of change. For them is seems it’s just not worth it. I don’t see it that way. Choosing to live your dream life comes down to a single choice; sacrifice and frustration don’t even enter the picture. From the moment you decide you want your dream life more than you want your current reality, it merely becomes a choice. Plain and simple.

Say for instance you want to lose weight. It’s a stressful day at the office and you’re craving Oreo’s. Under normal circumstances, you would just reach in your desk drawer, grab the package, and start eating. However, today is different because you made the choice that you want to lose weight more than you want to remain at your current weight. And as you look at that package of Oreo’s, you ask yourself, “Will eating these cookies help me reach my goal?” The answer is obviously no, and without a second thought, you choose not to eat any cookies. That’s what wanting something bad enough means – you make only those choices that support your goal.

That is a pretty clear example of a supportive choice, but there are many other choices we make throughout the day that can sabotage our goals. And most of us aren’t even aware that our moment to moment choices, can affect your ability to stay on a clear path to achieving your goals. That’s where life coaching comes in.

In order to get from where you are to where you want to be, it takes a comprehensive evaluation to find out what you have been doing that has gotten you to your current reality. And if you are not where you want to be, then you haven’t always made the right choices or taken the right actions. Most of us don’t know how to make the right choices to support our goals, because we never learned how. Was “Effective Goal Setting” offered at your school? Probably not. Traditional educational systems don’t usually offer life-success oriented curriculum. Few parents are successful goal achievers themselves, so it’s no wonder most of aren’t taught how to be successful goal achievers.

Life coaching helps you to identify the habits and actions of successful goal achievers. Together, we will identify your strengths and refine your weaknesses, so they become supportive to your goal achieving actions. We discover your natural talents and show you how to employ them in every situation. We define action lists to help keep you on track. And we reinforce your desire to achieve your goals, so if you are faced with moments of weakness or self-doubt, you can get yourself back on track.

If you’re ready to choose to your goals and dreams, and tap your true potential – let’s get to work! Below are some easy steps to help you get started.

1. Write your goals on a piece of paper and hang several copies around your home and office. Read them when you wake up in the morning, and before going to sleep. Just as in the exercise above, put yourself in the moment of your goals as if they are already your reality. Make sure your goals are tangible, measurable, and have a specific month, day, and year associated with them. This is a very important part of effective goal setting.
2. Make a choice. Do you want to achieve your dream life, or continue living your current reality? Remember, it is merely the choice that separates you from your goals.
3. Choose habits and actions that support your goals, whatever it is you want.
4. Involve your family, friends and coworkers. Let them know your goals and ask them to support you.
5. Complete the Quality of Life Enhancer exercise on a regular basis to help keep your life in perspective. Go to http://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/ and complete this online exercise now. Have your significant other or spouse complete the exercise. Share what you both wrote.
6. If you are ready to change your current reality, go to http://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/ and take the Am I Coachable? Assessment.
7. Hire a life coach or accountability coach. Life coaching is so invaluable; it’s hard to put into words. Many clients experience less frustration and faster results through life coaching. Achieving your dreams becomes so much easier when you have a mentor and teacher guiding you along the path to success.

So there is only one question to ask – How badly do you want to achieve your goals and dreams?

The only thing that separates you from your future and your current reality is choice. Do you choose the life you currently have, or do you choose the life you want to have? The choice is yours. Your dreams are real and your goals are possible. Commit to them and they will become a reality.

Start this moment by deciding what it is you really want. Write it on a piece of paper (remember to include exact dates) and know it is possible, if you really want it. Begin making only those choices that support your goals and take action! Nothing will come of nothing – you must take action to get from where you are to where you want to be.

© Anne Bachrach. All rights reserved.
Anne M. Bachrach is known as The Accountability Coach™. She has 23 years of experience training and coaching. The objective is to do more business in less time through maximizing people’s true potential, and ultimately leading them to an even better quality of life. Anne is the author of the book, Excuses Don’t Count; Results Rule!, and Live Life with No Regrets; How the Choices We Make Impact Our Lives. Go to www.AccountabilityCoach.com and get the FREE special report on Keys to Working Less, Making More Money, and Having a More Balanced Life. Join the FREE Silver Inner Circle Membership today and receive 10% off on all products and services in addition to having access to assessments and resources to help you achieve your goals so you can experience a more balanced and successful life (http://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/).