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What to do when your goals keep getting pushed aside

What to do when your goals keep getting pushed aside

From the course: How to Set Goals When Everything Feels Like a Priority

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What to do when your goals keep getting pushed aside

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- What a world it would be if we could focus on our high priority goals all the time, but it doesn't work out that way. Inevitably, there are emails to return or paperwork to complete, that is frustrating, but it's normal. But if over time you never seem to be able to get to your goals and they're always being pushed aside, that's a problem because it means your most important aspirations aren't getting done. So here are three ways to address that. First, raise the stakes, maybe you're not taking action on your goals because they just don't seem pressing or important enough. For many of the goals that matter most to us, no one else will be pushing us on it. There's rarely an immediate consequence if you don't learn that foreign language or step up your public speaking, but there are long-term consequences and you can amp up your sense of urgency by focusing on them. For instance, what would it look like in six months or a year or five or 10 years if you didn't do X? Would you be able…

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