Visualise Your Goals
Visualise Your Goals
When you are setting a goal think about what the end result will look like, sound like and feel like? When you visualise a positive outcome with sensory attachments you start to move towards that outcome and it can help you overcome challenges you encounter along the way.
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Think about your perfect holiday and have a picture of it in your mind as to what it looks like. What can you see? What can you hear? What can you feel? With a clear picture in your head like this it helps you to determine what you want and what you need to do to get it, making booking a holiday easier! It's exactly the same when goal setting, you can see what you want!.
Setting positive goals
There are two ways you can set goals, using a "towards" motivation i.e something that you want, or an "away from" motivation i.e something you want to get away from.
Both can be motivating but if you are moving away from something your motivation can run out as you get further away and you have no clear target to work towards.
It can also be quite stressful and demotivating to set "away from" goals. Imagine if your overall goal is to improve business as your profits are down, you could set yourself a goal to "cut costs, reduce overheads etc" to move away from the problem. How do you think your team would feel though? More than likely they will feel worried, demotivated and unhappy.
However if you instead set a goal to "increase sales and improve the business, offer more services and investigate what else customers may want" this goal is moving towards something and is far more motivating.
