How To Reach Any Goal: Tools To Pursue Any Goal

it is crucial to take consistent action toward your goals and actively pursue them 

I know Pursuing your goals can be challenging but to get to your end destination you need to do it

Otherwise, you have unfulfilled dreams and wishes not goals and you don’t want that

So, to help you pursue and achieve your goals I compiled 8 tools to help you do

In this post, you will learn the tools that will help you reach your goals based on science

this post is the 6th post in the start the year Strong to grow series

you’ll find link to all the posts in the series at the end of the post

What you’ll learn:

• 8 tools to help you pursue your goals
• why should use each one
• How to use each one

tools to pursue any goal you want to achieve

1- narrowing your visual attention to a point at the horizon and use focal vision to initiate goal pursuit 

How to do it

Looking at a particular point on the horizon without moving your head or blinking for 1 min 

at the same focus on the goal line

What happens here

This increases your systolic blood pressure, fires the neurocircuits that help you get ready to move

Which puts you in a state of readiness and alertness 

2-multitasking before getting to work

how to do it

do different things before working then when work time comes stop everything and focus

What happens here /why/how is it helpful according to science

It helps release epinephrine and dopamine which will help you put in a state of alertness 

And focus makes you ready to tackle your task

3-self image

why to do it?

it will motivate you to pursue and achieve it 

how to do it

Seeing yourself do the thing motivates you to do it 

visualizing yourself doing the thing ie. achieving your goal, and living it

4-visualization at the start

imaging the long-term goal and vision helps you start the process of pursuing your goal

Why do it at the start or different intervals but not all the time

It helps get the process of pursuing the goal started but is not effective

in keeping it all the way to achieving the goal 

what happens inside you when you do it

It increases blood pressure ramping up the readiness and excitement

of the goal at the start but over time it starts to waver 

5-visualizing failure (foreshadowing failure)

Why should you do it?

To help maintain motivating you to pursue your goals

if you focus routinely on foreshadowing failure 

it doubles your chances of reaching your goal 

how to do it?

Think of the ways you will fail if you take action A,B,C,..etc

How things would fail if you don’t do action A? How bad it’s going to be if you fail?

 Write, think, and talk about how bad it would be

if you don’t achieve your goals the more likely you will achieve those goals 

Why does it increase your chances of reaching the goal?

It leads to an increase in systolic blood pressure and readiness to do it

the amygdala(involved in worry, fear, and anxiety) is responsible for goal assessment, and pursuit too

The brain and body are much better at moving away from fearful things

than towards things we want

Avoidance circuits are much better in helping you move toward your goal

Our brains learn from one trial when they encounter something that we need to avoid so they orient themselves toward not doing it 

example of this is in the case of food poisoning

6- ensure that the goal is specific

This means you have a concrete plan with details on what will do to get there,

what success looks like here 

So, you know what you really want, to clear destination to assess  progress toward or it will be

more on how to set goals with science in this article  

7- weekly assessment

See how you did and how the plan is going and update the plan based on performance, action or lack there are and circumstances and situations you faced

why should you do it?

To assess progress and update your plans as needed

This process needs to be done constantly as well as updating the plan to have a high probability of achieving the goal 

Plus, it helps dopamine released consistently because you will reward yourself as you assess or after it

how can you do this?

i have an article here where i share the process of my weekly review that you can use to assess your progress

8-randomly reward yourself to take advantage of the dopamine system

we learned in this post that dopamine has a spike increase when something unexpected happens

that’s why,

randomly reward yourself on what you do and the progress you’ve made

how to do it

on different intervals or times of day reward yourself to get a boost of dopamine

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this post is part of Start the Year Strong to Grow series

All of these posts have an aim to help you prepare for the new year and start the year strong

here is the list of all the articles at the start of the year’s Strong to Grow series

• How To Get Ready For The New Year
• How To Reflect On The Past Year
• How To Set Goals That Actually Work
• How To Make A Plan To Reach Your Goals
• How To Set Habits
• 3 Mindsets You Need To Succeed At Every Goal
• Can’t Get Myself Motivated? 3 Powerful Ways To Get Motivated
• How To Beat Procrastination Tips: 5 Strategies Based On Science

Reference

episode 55: The Science of Setting & Achieving Goals

to your success

wafaa