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Question: What’s the one thing people do or fail to do most often that keeps them from meetings their goals or making progress ?

Answer :

Progress on a top goal is most often derailed for two reasons

1) Other things take precedence and the goal is push to the background.
2) Motivation is lost when the goal seems too difficult and people give up.

Primary goals are often pushed to the background when we take on other goals or others demands come up. You can overcome this by first, being aware that this might happen and being on the lockout for it.
Second, make your top goal the first thing you work on each day so that nothing else pushes it back. Decide what step your’re going to move your goal closer to reality, and do that before you start on anything else, including e-mail.

The loss of motivation is another big goal-killer. To overcome this barrier, a great method is to post your goal publicly - email it to your boss and co-workers, put it on your blog, post it on an online forum. Report your progress publicly each day to sustain motivation and accountability. Then, get excited about the goal and make working on it a pleasure. If you enjoy an activity, you’ll look forward to it rather than put it off.

by Leo Babauto - Owner of Zen Habits and author of “Power of Less: The fine Art of limiting yourself to the Essentials..in work and in Life.”

Courtesy: Success Magazine