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Self-Improvement
Succeed by Making Your Goal a Destination
A non-traditional approach to achieving your dreams
“I want to lose 25 pounds.”
“I want to travel the world.”
“Be a millionaire.”
“Graduate college.”
Sounds familiar, huh? Those are some pretty common goals people make. But according to research from Scranton University, only 8% of people ever achieve them.
I’m right there with you. I’ve been trying to lose 40 pounds for years. Traveling the world…the only thing on that list I no longer care to do is graduate college.
Why can’t we achieve these goals?
Goals ignore the journey
Zig Ziglar, one of the more popular goal-setting gurus of the last century, encouraged people to create a goals program. But those programs are missing one important thing: you have to make up some arbitrary path to get you there.
Want to lose 25 pounds? Good goal! How are you going to do it?
Here is how I tried to do it recently:
- Eat less than 2,000 calories a day.
- Cardio 4x per week.
- Lift weights 3x per week.
