100 Reasons

Finding the right way to start pursing a goal is paramount to the success of that goal. Many different things work for many different people and the key to success, is finding the right steps to succeed your goal. According to The Joint close to 30% of people who start a fitness goal, fail to reach it. This is mainly due to lack of motivation in their goal. 

There are a few steps to creating a good goal:

1.  You should always write and speak about your goal in first person.
2.  The description of your goal should always be in past test i.e. “I have…” instead of “I will…”
3.  Your goal should always be as descriptive as possible, date, description and a way to quantify it should all be included in your goal i.e. “I have lost 15kg of fat by the 20^th of December 2020, so that I weight 75kg.”
4. Your goal should be visible to you, in writing, every day. Put your goal as your laptop or phone screen, write it on a sticky note and place it on your mirror. Anywhere as long as it is visible to you every single day. 

These 4 steps will ensure that you have a goal that will keep you motivated and ensure that you stick to it.

But there is more to goal setting then writing out a goal, this is something that many fail to realise. A goal is something to work towards, it is the final destination of our trials and tribulations of the journey towards the goal. Obtaining a goal is not the reason we set the goal in the first place, there are other factors that initiated the journey to achieving these goals and it is these factors that pushed us to achieve the goal. You didn’t want to lose 20kg just so you could tick it off a list, you lost 20kgs because it made you healthier, fitter, it let you fit in those jeans you always dreamt of wearing again. That is why you lost the 20kgs and this is the focus of “100 Reasons”. If you can find 100 reasons why you want to accomplish a goal and another 100 reasons why failure is not an option, you will have 200 factors motivating you to accomplish your goal.

This is how it works you take a clean piece of paper, notebook, phone or any medium in which you can take notes on. In big capital letters you write out “I have achieved (your goal) so that I am:” and below this line you number 100 reasons why you should accomplish this goal, lets call these your goal factors. Your goal factors should always be referred to in first person, they should be in the past tense and they must be positive. The goal factors should not be “not as big as aunt Petunia”, your goal factors should rather be “smaller/skinnier than aunt Petunia”. You do not have to write out 100 reasons in one goal but the more reasons you write the more motivation you have.

After writing out 100 positive goal factors, you will repeat the process by writing out 100 “negative” goal factors. These are goal factors that will make you want to achieve your goal or else… Start on a brand new page, by writing “I have achieved (your goal) so that:” and followed by another 100 reasons why you should accomplish your goal or else.

By completing this exercise you would have found 200 or more reasons why you should accomplish your goal. This will ensure that you never lack the motivation needed to accomplish your goal. If you ever feel a stagnation or a lack of motivation, you go back and read over all 200 reasons again. You will begin to feel that all your goals are suddenly more important and your lust for achieving them would sky rocket. “100 Reasons” could be used on any goal. Your goals are now even more obtainable.

By Reinvent 101