Leave No Doubt

What's the purpose of goal setting? 

• To help you achieve what you want by providing you with a vision toward a specific purpose. 
• To help you realize where you are on the path toward that vision. 
• To help you determine what actions are required to reach your final destination. 

Goals are meant to provide a foundation for fulfilling your purpose. 

So when you're verbalizing them, don't waffle.  As you write your goals down, don't dilute their strength by hedging.  Avoid statements that implicate doubt or reluctance.

Setting goals with a mindset like "I'm going to try to increase my strength by 10%" or "It will be hard to lose 25 lbs, but . . . " or "I think I can cut refined sugar out of my diet" is only setting you up for failure.  These weakened statements give you the tiniest of openings to make an excuse, to quit, to fall short of your goals.  They perpetuate a voice of doubt in your mind that says you're not going to accomplish your task.

When you create a goal for yourself, go beyond being specific.  Be proud, confident, concise and absolute.

"I will increase my strength by 10%."

"I'm going to lose 25 lbs in 3 months."

"I'm going to remove refined sugars from my diet."

Don't let fear, doubt, uncertainty or laziness contaminate your emotions, thoughts or words.  Write direct and powerful goals that will inspire and motivate you every time you read them.  Every time you think of them.

When every fiber of your being inspires a purpose, a seed of passion, to take root inside you, let that seed become all that it wants to be.  FIRMLY state your goals and leave no doubt in your psyche that you're going to fulfill any purpose, big or small, that you desire.