On our 4-hour ride home from Boston yesterday, I started thinking about goals and why they often aren’t attained. I immediately attributed the lack of success for some of the goals to not putting in the work, but they aren’t the goals I was thinking about. I was thinking about the one’s that we really did put in the work and we came up short—those were the goals for which I really wanted answers.

Somewhere on a highway in Connecticut I had the revelation—it’s doubt. If everything else is aligned and we are taking all the necessary steps, it has to be that doubt hijacks the plan, and by doubt, I mean self-doubt. So I looked into doubt a little further and discovered that it’s a very wily foe.

If you believe doubt is keeping you from your goals, here are a few quick tips for overcoming this worthy adversary.
1. Define what your doubt really is and write it down. Be honest!
2. Change your self-talk, it’s only being used to support more doubt.
3. Focus on what you desire, not what you doubt.
4. Get an accountability buddy or some support system who will affirm the goal, not the doubt.
5. Act, act, ACT! Go get this goal with complete faith that it is already yours!

Let’s GO! WE GOT THIS!
Beth

P.S. Don’t forget our quote from a week ago:

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”

― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist