Setting Small Goals as a Constant Motivator

All of us have goals and all of us want to achieve it. If your goal is to lose weight, here are few important things about goals which you should know.

The desire to lose weight and enjoy its benefits would only be materialized with proper action, support and
constant motivation.

You heard it right! Without these important elements, your dream of achieving your ideal weight would
never come to fruition. In all goals and goal setting, the clarity with what it is you want to have is the primary requirement for the total plan of action.

Goals are there to help provide structure and focus in achieving your dream. Each individual who has an idea of what he or she wants can and would gladly do an outline of how his or her life should be lived and where to direct it. Things as lifetime goals, long-term goals and life-direction courses are means to mapping out how you want to live your life.

But more importantly, lifetime goals are comprised of small and short-term goals set to put you on course
towards the end of your quest for success. Some people who have the desire to succeed in achieving their
goals do not succeed. Why is this so?

People tend to articulate highly abstract and ideal thoughts when it comes to goal setting, forgetting that goals should be attainable, reasonable, time-constrained, concrete and specific. Setting lifetime goals without its accompanying short-term goals would easily sway you from focusing on your goal and spending a lot of your energies to activities that may not be relevant to your cause. Short-term, small goals are helpful to keep your ship on sail towards the promised benefits of your dreams. These small and helpful goals would constantly remind you of your motivation and reason for wanting to achieve your goal in the end. They are practical tools to slowly realize your long-term plans.

Basically, small goals provide you a workable objective that would easily fit into the over-all plan of your
generally abstract ideal in the end. Setting small goals is a unique and creative activity of self-expression
as you try to sift in and include the factors that are very much relevant to you.

 Examples of these are your budget, your lifestyle,your work or career, your availability or the actual hours that you can possibly set aside for your routines and your environment as they all play significant roles in your plan to lose weight.


Small goals that may help you achieve your long-term plan may include:

· Saving a few dollars from buying convenient foods such as fast food and processed goods
· Including vegetables and fruits in your meal everyday.

· Maintaining proper posture wherever you are as it burns a small amount of calories
· Getting enough sleep everyday.

· A minute or two to practice proper breathing especially in the morning after waking up.

· Setting thirty minutes to an hour to relax and release tension by doing your daily exercise.

· Imaging yourself with the body size that you want in a few moments everyday or as you start your mentally conditions one to maintain the train of thoughts that are essential to achieving the thought.