Challenges and Goals

Published June 9, 2010 |

One of the things that you’re supposed to do when trying to be successful in anything is to set goals for yourself. I have tried many times to set goals and challenges for myself in various areas of my life. From weight loss to blogging (or should that be from blogging to weight loss). However, I find myself always falling short on my goals and challenges. Almost like as soon as I set a goal for myself, I do everything possible to keep myself from actually reaching that goal! It’s maddening, frustrating, irritating… just annoying the living crap out of me!

I have all these books on positive thinking and positive living and all of them tell me I need to set a goal and challenge myself. But when I do that, I do everything BUT work on that goal or challenge. Like I’m trying to prove to myself that I can’t really succeed in anything I try to do. Even something as simple as blogging everyday. Suddenly I find I either have nothing to blog about (yea right! There’s nothing I have an opinion on?? In THIS economy??)!

When it comes to my health and weight loss, I find that I can’t figure out what to eat except McDonalds or Pizza. Suddenly, that’s all I crave! Unless I have a near immediate painful reaction, I can’t stay away from various foods… and even with the painful reaction it gets hard to stay away. So hard that I find I’m eating out more now than I did before! SHEESH!!!

Of course what all this does is make me feel really bad about myself. I end up feeling like a complete failure and loser for even thinking I could try and do something good and be successful at it. Which of course keeps me from continuing on with my goals and challenges. It’s a vicious cycle of self fulfilling defeatism that I get myself into… all because I try to set a goal for myself.

So how do I keep this from happening? How do I get past all of these problems?

Well my good friend and coach, Honoree, would tell me I should be listening to my affirmations every day. Of course I haven’t been doing that. Listening to my affirmations every day and every night really did help me to get past my negative self talk. It also brought to me the good things that I think about, instead of more of the bad stuff that I think about.

Another thing that Honoree would tell me to do, is to start writing down my affirmations as well. Writing down the affirmations makes a big difference because your using another one of your senses to set the good thoughts into your mind and soul. It does help!

Funny thing is, I’ve done all these things. I know they work! They work really well too! I don’t know why I stop doing them. It sometimes takes me a while to get them started again. Usually I have to start feeling really bad before I remember that I need to do my affirmations every day. I’m not feeling REALLY bad, but I’m getting sick and tired of things not working the way I want them to. So I need to start these up again! I know I’ll see a huge difference in eerything… from my blogging to my business, from my health to my poker game… it’ll all start going a heck of a lot better for me when I start doing my affirmations again. Then I’ll start doing some other things too.