The most effective way of making progress is to find a method of tracking that suits you. This can range from using a journal, a colour-in progress sheet, an app that helps you to track milestones, a wearable fitness tracker (for physical fitness), an accountability meeting scheduled at set intervals, tick-off lists and the possibilities go on. It is important for your mind to recognise and aim for consistent and meaningful progress that is aligned to your goals so that you can stay on track. This is usually the reason that we see people having so much success on ‘8 week transformations’, ’30 day programs’, etc. They have programmed their mind to a specific time frame, a specific goal with high expectations and the appropriate structure and support that is needed. Could these same people have done exercise or mindfulness for 30 days on their own? Yes, but the mental structure and accountability provides you with a much better chance of success. When you expect something to work and succeed, your chances of coming out the other end with transformed. Does this mean that only pre-packaged plans work? Of course not, we can use the principles of these plans to ensure our own success. First, we set a realistic but optimistic timeframe to achieve a goal (or a step of a goal), then we structure the activities needed to do that goal – chunking it into daily pieces, we then set up accountability and support people (either face to face, daily text check-ins, workout buddies, or online groups), and we use our tracking method that suits us and keeps us motivated to continue. Usually we all know what it is that we must do, yet we lack the tracking structure to keep our mind engaged on the task. How about you try it this week?
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