SMALL GOALS LEAD TO BIGGER GOALS
September 14, 2021
Start small and work your way up.
Do not try to get to the top without any rings on your ladder. You won’t get too far. Build your ladder and step up one ring at a time to get to the top.
You are not prepared to run a marathon after sprinting an 800m dash once. Although, adding 800m at a time slowly, can get you there properly, while getting in amazing shape, and does it’s best to avoid any major injury.
I apologize if you’re not a Taylor Swift fan but, whether you love her or hate her, she is a perfect example of thousands of mini-goals leading to the ultimate.
Taylor Swift didn’t become the world's biggest pop sensation overnight.
What did she do first?
She had to learn guitar, how to write songs, read music, and sing. All of those tasks had numerous mini (mini) goals in themselves. (Mini, mini-goals ex: getting guitar lessons, 1 hour of practicing a day for 30 days, writing 100 songs, etc)
After the basics, there were mini, mini-goals in getting her to Nashville. Her first main goal of all this was a record deal.
It wasn’t just handed to her either. She had to write songs for other artists first, go to high school, sing at venues, and eventually was given a chance to get signed to her first label.
People get discouraged because a lot of the time you see someone's end result. What you don’t usually see is, for any major goal that someone has, there were hundreds and thousands of mini- goals and mini, mini-goals that accompanied it. It’s the grunt work you put in so people can see the finished result.
When you’re working out and eating healthy, no one sees the hours of meal prepping, gym sessions, goal planning, and days you did something even when you were tired.
People try new things all the time, set new goals all willy nilly, and think they’re capable of completing it easily. The harsh reality is, any goal you have is going to take work. You are going to have to put in the time to plan and reach every single benchmark you have set for yourself.
You got this. Start writing your main goals, then branch out to your mini-goals, then branch out from those to your mini, mini-goals (things you can do right now). <3
