Why do some things that you try to do come easily and others  are more difficult?  What are the ingredients of success? All successful small business coaches or executive business coaches have their answer to this question.

For example, I exercise by running, doing the elliptical machine or riding my bicycle most every morning for 30 minutes–no compromises, rain or shine. Other goals that I set for myself may or may not get done. Why? There are 4 essential ingredients for goals to have achievable permanence:

1.       I’m convinced that 30 minutes of daily aerobic exercise is the required activity to avoid another triple bypass surgery (My GOAL.)

2.       I’m fanatical about avoiding another triple bypass surgery

3.       Avoiding another triple bypass surgery is a goal of serious and painful consequences.

4.       I’ve done 30 minutes of daily aerobic exercise most every morning for more than 30 days and it has become a habit.

Let’s apply this framework to another goal and see if these 4 principles will assure us of success.

GOAL:   I will have a 30-minute “get-acquainted meeting” with someone in my target market three times a week to determine if my coaching them is a good fit for the two of us.

CONVINCED–I am convinced that having 30-minute sessions with 3 qualified prospects each week will lead to growing my business.

FANATICAL–I am fanatical about helping other people improve their life by building a business, which will provide them with purposeful activity and more cash;

SERIOUS and PAINFUL CONSEQUENCES–this goal of adding clients is the single most important thing I can do in my life to ensure that I achieve my life’s mission of helping others, a major life compass point for me.  One aspect of my self-worth is embedded in this goal.

BECOME A HABIT–After 30 conversations in 10 weeks or less, I will have built a skilled process that ensures that I continue to deliver this essential habit.

Optional:  announce to others your intention, so as to create accountability.  It works for some but I’m ambivalent about relying on others to create one’s accountability, rather than being accountable to oneself.

So you try it.  Do your goals have these 4 critical elements?

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