Goal-A-Phobic

 31 December 18:00   

    Goal-A-Phobic   by Hershey Wier

    Journaling time today was a bit out of the ordinary. I knew something was up if I acquainted an appetite to use address in my account using adventurous red ink. I candidly had no abstraction why I acquainted an affection to use red. I never use red. My account is abounding mostly with inks of a bendable pink, violet or green.

    But today - red. Hmmmm.... If I journal, I usually let my apperception go and address whatever comes to mind, behindhand of whether it makes sense. Usually it s a few thoughts about something in the past, or something I charge to get done in future. But today, we got appropriate down to business. It was as if my duke were on auto-pilot, and my axial processing assemblage was barking out orders. The first band went "GOAL Ambience AND Ambition Accepting Haveto BE OUR Capital GOAL." The rich, red belletrist bugged my eyes. Something clicked. A chat was forthcoming. A chat amid my assignment aggressive cocky and my dabbling aggressive self. "Task" was aggravating to get some cooperation. "Procrastination" was up to its accepted antics. The chat went something like this...

    Procrastination: But what do you beggarly we charge to do some ambition setting? We ve done a lot of being lately?! I charge a break!

    Task: Yes, we ve done "stuff." How abundant of that being relates to our activity goals? For example, that big angle we accumulate talking about. If we re to get anywhere with it, we ve got to start.

    Procrastination: Oh, appear on. The angle can wait. I ll get that done in no time. You yield a breach and let me handle things. Afore I get to that angle though, I charge to acquisition area I ve put a ton of my papers, files, addresses I charge in adjustment to get started. Yikes, I charge to do all sorts of stuff. And afore I can get to that, my board needs to get austere off. Oh yeah, and the kitchen abiding could use a cleaning, and I charge to aces out this year s Christmas cards, and...

    Task: The domiciliary being will wait, and you understand you accept no affairs to aggress the kitchen anyway. It s an excuse. And, your board is fine. We did a quick assay yesterday. How abundant clearer does it accept to get? We charge to at atomic start. Any additional excuses?

    Procrastination: Well, I charge to block out a big block of time. That will be impossible. You understand how active we are these days.

    Task: Block out an hour.

    Procrastination: We charge added than an hour and we don t accept it.

    Task: Alpha out with an hour. Block it out on your calendar.

    Procrastination: But...

    Task: Now.

    Procrastination: Alright. There. Saturday morning, 9:00 am. Happy?

    Task: Not yet. What s the assignment we re traveling to plan on.

    Procrastination: The activity proposal.

    Task: Get specific. That angle will yield at atomic 12 hours to complete. What assignment are we traveling to achieve on Saturday morning from 9:00 am to 10:00 am?

    Procrastination: I ll amount that out on Saturday at 9:00 am.

    Task: We ll eat up the hour just brainstorming. Back I ve already got your attention, why don t we just put down a roadmap appropriate now. Say you re traveling to accumulate that Saturday morning block accessible every week. We appraisal 12 hours for the project, so that s about three months. Let s get a ambition down for anniversary of those Saturday morning appointments... What...? What?! What s wrong...?! You re shaking! Sweating...! A abundance about to...!

    Procrastination: AAAAARRRRGHHHHH!!! Okay, okay, I confess! You win! I... I m... I m...GOAL-A-PHOBIC! Yes, yes, it s true! I m quick to appear up with the admirable plan, but i... im... imp... IMPTAYSUN! I can t buck it... I m allergic to it! I can t even say it right.

    Task: "Implementation." Now, now, yield a abysmal breath. Don t get so down on yourself. Some of our projects accept gone off magnificently. We ve able a lot together. It s just assertive projects that you assume to get ashore on - like this proposal.

    Procrastination: Well, face it. There s not a adventitious that angle will get accepted. It s just ambitious thinking. I don t wish to go through all of that plan and then accept to go through the rejection. And the business allotment of it - who s traveling to get that done? Not to acknowledgment the money we ll charge to get it off the ground.

    Task: Fear. That s abhorrence talking. You understand we ve done our analysis and I accept to accept for the best outcome. We ll never understand unless we start. And, we ll never alpha unless you stop speaking from fear. Now let s alpha accepting that roadmap together. The goals charge to be specific, written, engaging, attainable, and time-bound.

    Procrastination: That s a lot to remember.

    Task: They create up the acronym S-W-E-A-T.

    Procrastination: Ugh.

    Task: That s...

    Specific. If the ambition is too broad, we ll lose track.

    Written, so that we can accurate in focused agreement what needs to get done; and we can accumulate it in foreground of us.

    Engaging, so that we are motivated, absorbed in the project. There may be some accomplish that don t adventure us, but the all-embracing activity haveto appear from the heart.

    Attainable, so that we accept accord with alive that with a plan and some work, this activity can become a acknowledged reality.

    Time-bound: You get what you measure. A ambition is a dream with a deadline. Abundant said. Let s go.