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3 Powerful Questions to Help You Refocus Your Goals
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Our latest article on questions to ask yourself to help refocus your goals.
Setting goals is a great way to keep life in focus. We set personal and professional goals to hold ourselves accountable, to help us reach our next milestone.
Sometimes we find that we aren’t motivated to reach our goals or they may seem out of reach. Taking a step back and asking ourselves a few questions can help us to refocus and get us back on the right path to reaching our goals.
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Our latest article on questions to ask yourself to help refocus your goals.
Setting goals is a great way to keep life in focus. We set personal and professional goals to hold ourselves accountable, to help us reach our next milestone.
Sometimes we find that we aren’t motivated to reach our goals or they may seem out of reach. Taking a step back and asking ourselves a few questions can help us to refocus and get us back on the right path to reaching our goals.
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Questions to ask yourself to help refocus your goals
1. Ask yourself how you want to feel.
The cycle of setting goals, if we are diligent, includes reaching them, and for many of us, what is then a short-term feeling of accomplishment. The end of the race is never as satisfying as we had hoped it would be. This leaves us with a deflated feeling of “now what?” The feeling of exuberant joy, of “I finally made it” never seems to come.
I remember when I defended my doctoral dissertation and the committee said that I passed. I was very excited as I shook everyone’s hand. As I walked out of the room and got on an elevator full of people, I wanted to tell them I had just successfully defended my dissertation.
I’m not that extroverted, so I didn’t, and I soon realized to the rest of the world, my personal accomplishment didn’t mean much. I was still happy, but it was a jolt of reality that something I had spent a big portion of my life working to achieve only mattered to a few people.
I think this is true of most things in life. The end result doesn’t always have the payout that we expect it to. I think this is why people share so much on social media. They want some type of recognition or an extension of the feeling they had hoped to feel.
When setting goals, think about how you want to feel when you reach your goal. This is one of the most important questions to ask yourself. If you are working on your finances, maybe one of the feelings you are looking for is actually security. If you start with that in mind, you are more likely to work toward your goal and be more satisfied once you accomplish it.
For my dissertation, I wasn’t looking for recognition, thankfully. I was looking for security. Passing through that hurdle meant that I had finished all the requirements for my education and could now focus on my career. Focusing on the feeling you hope to feel, helps clarify your goals.
The cycle of setting goals, if we are diligent, includes reaching them, and for many of us, what is then a short-term feeling of accomplishment. The end of the race is never as satisfying as we had hoped it would be. This leaves us with a deflated feeling of “now what?” The feeling of exuberant joy, of “I finally made it” never seems to come.
I remember when I defended my doctoral dissertation and the committee said that I passed. I was very excited as I shook everyone’s hand. As I walked out of the room and got on an elevator full of people, I wanted to tell them I had just successfully defended my dissertation.
I’m not that extroverted, so I didn’t, and I soon realized to the rest of the world, my personal accomplishment didn’t mean much. I was still happy, but it was a jolt of reality that something I had spent a big portion of my life working to achieve only mattered to a few people.
I think this is true of most things in life. The end result doesn’t always have the payout that we expect it to. I think this is why people share so much on social media. They want some type of recognition or an extension of the feeling they had hoped to feel.
When setting goals, think about how you want to feel when you reach your goal. This is one of the most important questions to ask yourself. If you are working on your finances, maybe one of the feelings you are looking for is actually security. If you start with that in mind, you are more likely to work toward your goal and be more satisfied once you accomplish it.
For my dissertation, I wasn’t looking for recognition, thankfully. I was looking for security. Passing through that hurdle meant that I had finished all the requirements for my education and could now focus on my career. Focusing on the feeling you hope to feel, helps clarify your goals.
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