Achieve Your Goals - Are You Flexible And Resilient Enough?

Achieving goals can be hugely satisfying and life affirming. I guess that's why we set goals in the first place. Achieving goals can also be immensely hard work. The goal has to be big enough to stretch you and challenge you otherwise it is just a routine task. Goals can sometimes seem to fight back; almost as if they don't want to be achieved. A really good goal that appeared benign at first can suddenly start to fight hard and dirty and you know that when you have achieved that goal, you have really earned the plaudits. You need to be flexible and resilient when this happens as you never know which particular goal will prove a handful.

By being resilient, I mean being able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult or adverse conditions. Flexibility aids resilience; trees bend and sway in the wind to avoid breaking.

Developing behavioural and mental flexibility is a key element to achieving your goals. The person with most options in any given situation is most likely to advantageously influence that situation. Problems and obstacles will appear in your way that will defy any frontal assault. You will sometimes need to move back to then go forward by another route. If this happens too often it can be emotionally draining and it is only your reserves of resilience that can keep you together and focused on your desired outcome.

How can you increase your resilience? Pay attention to what you are good at, stay positive and be optimistic. Take full responsibility for your life, actions and problem solving skills. Make sure that your overall purpose in life is important and motivating enough. Look after your mental and physical well-being. Build and maintain a strong support network. Embrace change and trust in your abilities.

I would also go as far as recommending that really ambitious goals be split down into smaller sub-goals that, whilst still challenging, are much more attainable and therefore less of a potential drain on your resilience resource over time.

After all, the way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time.

I wish you well with all your challenges.

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