Goals are wonderful. Where would we be without them? Actually, sometimes we’d be in the same place we are with them. Why don’t goals always work their motivating magic? If you are slumped in a pool of shame for failing to attain a goal you set with good intentions and a completion date, stand up and be encouraged! We are about to unmask some disguised realities about goals, and reveal a better way to achieve them. THE RIGHT GOALS WILL WORK. THE WRONG GOALS WON’T. HERE’S HOW TO TELL THE DIFFERENCE.
THE GLITCH IN SETTING GOALS The problem isn’t that we focus on our goals too little, it’s often that we focus on them too much. By definition, a goal is big. The longer we focus on the goal, the bigger it looks! Soon it’s towering over us like Mt. Everest and we decide it would be more sensible to retire to base camp and have a hot chocolate than to begin the perilous ascent. The familiar solution of breaking down the gargantuan goal into small steps doesn’t fool us—we’re still well aware it’s a mountainous challenge. Worse, if we succumb to the inner conclusion that we’ll never make it, and that setting it in the first place was a reckless act of momentary disillusionment, our quitting will validate that conclusion and hamper our attainment of future goals. Every accomplished goal is the result of a system ingrained in your everyday life. While the goal may loom above you, impossibly high and huge, a system is a day-sized series of actions. Goals demand progress; a system actually generates progress. Writers write. Runners run. Neither the book nor the finish line makes people authors and athletes: it’s the system they have incorporated into their lives. The blank page and the endless road cannot resist the power of consistent commitment to a system that creates progress. When you incorporate the system of the Seven Critical Business-Building Activities into your daily lifestyle, you will be a business builder; not only on the day you receive the advancement call, but every day leading up to it and every day following it. The Melaleuca business model comes to the rescue of goal paralysis with a system both simple and universally do-able. Speaking the goal, writing the goal, looking at a picture of the goal, writing mini-goals as steps to your goal—all of these serve a purpose, but the Melaleuca business system allows average folks to achieve lofty goals because the system is time-tested and proven to work. When you incorporate the Melaleuca system into your life, it’s much like getting on the freeway. You do the driving and the road takes you there. Practice the activities and they lead to success. RESPOND TO FEEDBACK LOOPS Results from the Seven Critical Activities are so predictable, if there is a dip in momentum, it’s easy to pinpoint which activity needs to be put back into balance. THE KEYS TO ACHIEVING GOALS Focus on the system instead
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MARCH 2017 | MELALEUCA.COM
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