S1E1 - Achieve goals this year - it's easier than you think

DoRemember Podcast

Last year started with a dream and ambitions to live those dreams, but the year went by and it is still a dream. Is it really difficult to follow through dreams and achieve goals?

We start our year with dreams, hopes and resolutions that this year we will achieve our goals. We are excited about our goals and feel this is THE year and we will finally be able to achieve what we always hoped for and wanted to achieve.

After a few exciting days, we lose track of our goals and the aspirations just fade away. Is it really so difficult to keep up with your goals throughout the year?

Let’s try and understand why we struggle to keep up with our goals and what can we do to make sure that we stay on track and achieve our goals before the end of this year.

All that you have done in life so far has taken efforts. The bigger the goals the more effort it needs to achieve them.

A dream is a goal that has been created in your stream of thoughts and is waiting to come to reality. The longer you hold that dream the more difficult it becomes for that dream to be realized. You need to understand the importance of working on these dreams. If not you, who will bring it to reality?

The dream that you have been building upon will just stay a dream if you don’t work on it. The goal or the dream or the change you are wanting to have doesn’t exist. It is just the creation of your mind and when you work on it, things will be different, but better and most importantly, real. Living in a reality is fun and exciting but you will have to come out of your world of dreams into reality.

Small Habits

Everything starts small and one of the pitfalls of not being able to achieve goals is the ambitious nature of goals. Most goals are long term and it is difficult to see rewards instantly, making it difficult to follow through. To achieve goals you need to break it down into small habits.
Small habits are everyday actions that you keep doing until they become automated and are part of your lifestyle. Small habits are already part of your life, for eg. brushing your teeth, is a small habit with a goal to keep healthy dental hygiene throughout your life.
Let’s say you want to achieve a goal of reading 10 nonfiction books in 2019. To read 10 books you need to start with a habit of reading every single day.

• An average book is about 300 pages.
• 300 pages x 10 books = 3000 pages.
• 3000 pages / 365 days = 8.2 pages in a day.

So to achieve the goal of reading 10 books in a year you need to start with reading 8 pages in a day. 8 pages in a day would roughly mean 15 mins – 30 mins of reading per day.
Having this small and simple habit of reading 30 mins in a day can help you achieve your goal in 12 months. You need to shift your mind to long-term thinking. 8 pages don’t look to be significant progress, but it will add up towards accomplishing your goal.
You need to shift your mindset towards the beauty of persistence and daily habits to achieve goals. You need to love the process of achieving a goal. The feeling that you have achieved something is a very short feeling. You will spend all the time building up to that achievement and working towards it. The process is more memorable than the feeling of achieving a goal.
There is a popular quote from Eric Thomas: “Fall in love with the process and the results will come.”
Here are some actions that you need to take

1. Break your goal down to small everyday habits
2. Get started
3. Keep a log of your everyday progress

This is the year!

There is just one simple secret to achieve goals, GET STARTED!