The Key to Maintaining Consistency Towards Your Goals & Resolutions

Would you like to achieve your goals with greater ease and efficiency? Whether you are a parent, manager, leader, coach, or simply someone striving for peak performance, there is a powerful secret to visualizing your outcomes that most people overlook. Understanding this secret can help you maintain consistency and follow through on your objectives. In the following article I’ll show you this simple strategy that you can begin applying right away to take your goal achievement to the next level.

Whenever we set goals for ourselves, we create a gap between who we are now and who we want to become. This gap often presents challenges. If we allow our ‘authentic responses’ to dictate our actions, we end up with ‘business as usual’—different day, different aims, but the same old results.

The key to actualizing our desired aims is not to ‘follow our gut’ or to ‘be authentic to how I feel’, because that approach will just lead to more of the same. Instead, we need to change our ‘intuition’ and ‘authentic responses’ to align with who we want to become and what we want to achieve.

But how do we do that?

The secret lies in visualizing the process of performing the required behaviors to achieve our desired end result in ways that are joyful and compelling.

When most people set goals, they spend a significant amount of time (if not all of it) visualizing the outcome and how good it will feel when they achieve it. While this is important, it can lead to getting really hyped up and excited about our goals, only to feel let down on ‘day one’ when it’s time to do the necessary work.

Visualizing the end result is an important and necessary first step, but it will only take us so far.

When you spend the majority of your time visualizing the process of doing the things you need to do to achieve your desired results in an enjoyable and compelling way, you start to reprogram your ‘gut’ and ‘authentic responses.’ You begin to set yourself up for something different.

If you can’t visualize those tasks as compelling in your own imagination, do you really think they will be compelling when it’s time to actually follow through?

It may take practice, but by visualizing the process of performing the tasks that will lead you to your end goal with joy, you start to infuse those activities with meaning, life, and significance. This dramatically increases the likelihood of not only following through but also maintaining consistency and resilience in building the necessary habits to turn your goals into realities.