Goal setting after a heart attack
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Prompt with dfn on side 2, The cause and Goals (320.48 KB)
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"A couple of months ago I had a heart attack and I'm slowly recovering. My employer hopes I can get going again, but I don't know. My job is quite high pressure and I'm not sure I've got the stomach for it now."
"I used to be a big goal setter, but that all seems a bit pointless now."
This is the opening paragraph of a letter written to my friend Lindsey Dawson who hosts her own television show; Letters to Lindsey. She interviewed me for a different perspective on goal setting.
Quite clearly goals don't give us sustainable motivation.
Goal setting without some vital understanding only provides fleeting joy, and then only if we reach the goal, so immediately we have to set another. If we're ambitious we'll set a more challenging goal, we're told stretch is good for us. We like the thrill and the promise of reaping even bigger rewards, but every time, we amp up the goal, we amp up the stress.
As a young person we can cope, but as we get older our body starts to protest. A heart attack may just be our body saying, enough!
So what's a better way?
Goals have an important place in our lives, because without them we'd probably stay in bed and waste away. However highly effective people see goals as stepping stones to a bigger cause, not the driving force. ...
If you think 'I need inspiration, how to be self motivated' or you work to hard, you'll want to listen to the audio, the complete story, told by Donald Jessep, business coach, click on the yellow text in the box above.
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In the Motivate Myself series; Shipping rates
- The Deeper Cause - ... employee to understand the cause of an issue to a deeper level so they are insired to change
- The Myth of the Night Owl - Early in the morning is when we set decide to be effective and productive
- Powerful Pauses - Questions become powerful if we are relaxed about leaving tension in the silence that follows
- Being and Doing - Completing the 'To Do' list is only fulfilling if we can also place a tick beside the way we intended to 'Be'
- The 10 70 20 Rule - A framework for being inspired, organised, productive, fun, for ever learning and at peace
- Grey is OK - A mind game for accepting so we can maximise our influence towards a better situation
- The Personal Escalation Plan - The process for gaining the attention of influential people to get an idea implimented
- The Goals and Causes - How goals without clarity of a bigger cause is only fleetingly motivating at best. What is a cause?
- Asking for Help - Kevin who wanted to chicken out when an opportunity he's worked on for for many yeasr presents itself
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