I've been following success coach Brian Tracey's instructions and writing down my six major goals every day - and I suddenly realised that I was just writing them out and not feeling excited about them. This is not the way to achieve goals! I wondered why I wasn't feeling excited and realised that I had held a couple of the goals for a long time and hadn't achieved them so a niggling doubt had crept in. I hadn't achieved them before so maybe I wouldn't or couldn't now.
It's interesting how we let past failures colour our present - I not only see it in myself I see this all the time with my clients. Instead of staying in the present moment with all our current skills and resources, we look back to the past and use that to assess what we can do now and in the future. Pretty silly when you think about it!
It also brought to mind an occasion when I was in a workshop and we had to write down what we wanted to have, to achieve, to be. I was pretty pleased with what I wrote down until a 17 year old got up and shared her vision. Uninhibited by limiting thinking she painted her wonderful dream and I realised how I had only allowed myself to have a little dream.
We're not going to fulfill our potential if we don't aim high, so my questions to you are - do you think big or do you limit yourself in some way? Have you stopped being excited about what you can achieve? If you took off the brakes what would you really be going for?
Let's get excited again and think big!