{"id":6909,"date":"2016-10-31T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/?p=6909"},"modified":"2016-10-31T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T22:13:09","slug":"big-goals-get-way-smaller-goals-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/big-goals-get-way-smaller-goals-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"When big goals get in the way: smaller goals to the rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"

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You probably know that goal setting is a really powerful tool, right? But have you ever set a goal and then gotten scared away? I have.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Take this blog as an example. Earlier this year I set myself the goal of writing and sharing more blog posts with our readers. At first, I had great success. This motivated me to write bigger and better posts with more research and depth. I was having fun. I felt excited and encouraged!<\/span><\/p>\n

But then the problems began. I began to experience “goal creep.” I started out with the simple goal of writing more regular posts, and now I was spending 4 to 8 hours on each one. So, after that initial flurry of posts, I found myself writing nothing because I “didn’t have that much time” to spare.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was letting my goal get in the way of my achievement. The scale of the goal was scaring me away, so I wasn’t writing anything!<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week I embarrassingly admitted to my accountability partner that I had once again failed to write a blog post. She gave me a challenge: write a post in just one hour. So here I am writing again and enjoying it. Brilliant!<\/span><\/p>\n

Thinking about it now, I really should have know better. I had a similar experience earlier this year when I was training for an 80km mountain bike race. \u00a0I didn\u2019t have the 2 or more hours each day to train, so I bailed on training altogether. <\/span><\/p>\n

Eventually, I discovered I could trick myself by adjusting my goal. I switched my focus to just <\/span>starting<\/span><\/i> my workout. I figured even just 30 minutes — heck, even 15 minutes — was better than nothing. The interesting thing was once I got started I usually did the full workout that I thought I “didn’t have time for.” <\/span><\/p>\n

All I had to do was get past the initial fear caused by the scale of my goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Have you set any goals that ended up scaring you off? Try scaling back your objectives and see if that helps you get the ball rolling!<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You probably know that goal setting is a really powerful tool, right? But have you ever set a goal and then gotten scared away? I have. Take this blog as an example. Earlier this year I set myself the goal of writing and sharing more blog posts with our readers. At first, I had great … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6917,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6909\/revisions\/6917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salonmonster.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}