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Dealing with challenges to reaching goals

Dealing with challenges to reaching goals

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Dealing with challenges to reaching goals

- No one sets out to not achieve the goals they've set themselves, but it happens. The question is how can you give yourself the best shot of reaching your goals and minimizing the barriers to achieving your success? First, focus on self-awareness. When you find yourself not on track to beat your target, before you do anything else, stop and assess what's going on. So often we focus on the external factors that affect us achieving our goals. The environment around you has changed. Someone else has impacted the situation. But what is it within you that's stopping you moving forward? Are you procrastinating? Why? Are you fearful of not reaching your goals? Or as I sometimes find in coaching sessions, are you fearful of what will happen if you do achieve your goal? Are you frustrated? Are you apathetic? Is your heart not in it? Is the goal not important enough or does it seem too far away to achieve? This can…

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