So here we are, 90 Days Later. I set some goals, designed to change my life. I purposely wanted to make a public declaration of my “90 Challenge” because that’s what I do for one…and the reason is I want to have accountability in my life. Making goals or at least the intention of achieving goals (as in my case) puts some pressure on you. People will wonder whether you did what you said you would do. This kind of pressure can be used to good affect…or not.
Well I had several goals, and I’m here to report to you that I only accomplished one of them. I launched my website www.klhbeats.com. It was a big one, but it was only one. On a certain level I feel proud of myself because I know that most people don’t have the skill to do what I did. Most people could never visualize, follow through, and build what I did. Had it not been for my setting the goal to have it launched by July 4th, I might still be caught up in the trap of perpetual tweaking. But the goal of having it done by a date certain, provoked me to have an end game.
To be honest, on another level I’m disappointed. I felt like if I really applied myself, and focused, I really could accomplish everthing on my list…but I didn’t. I even had my cable TV temporarily turned off, to get rid of a huge time killer. Even that wasn’t enough. I still managed to find ways to do things other than what I had written down as goals. So yes, I’m disappointed. However, I did learn something from this experience.
Even though I’ve always had this intuition in my head about a 90 day goal challenge…it became clear to me that 90 days is too long a period, at least for me it was. I’ve talked in the past about breaking big goals down into small chunks. The benefit of this is, it makes the goal more feasible…more attainable. The shorter the gap is between where you are and where you want to be, the greater your chance is to get to where you want to be. A lot of people would love to be a millionaire, I know I would. But if you are currently only making $35k per year the gap between the two is so big, that it makes the goal seemingly unattainable. If you want to loose 80 lbs. you have a much better shot at success if you focus on 2 or 3 lbs. at a time.
I knew that breaking goals down was very important, and I think that my impatience moved me to jump into my 90 day challenge without properly preparing for it. Had I taken the first 2 or 3 days to plan my activities, and to set up small incremental goals, I think my end result would have, or could have been different…Lesson learned.
This won’t be the end of goal setting challenges for me, it’s really just one step in my journey…that strikes me as corny, but it’s true. I learned that I really could get by watching a lot less TV, that I can accomplish a goal, and that it’s always better to break bigger goals down into smaller more manageable chunks. So I’m gonna look back on my 90 Day Challenge as a success. Not quite the success I envisioned but a success nonetheless.
Stay Fly and Fly High!
KLH
