Simple solutions

Effective goal-striving doesn’t have to be super complicated.

Of course, things like making sure the goal aligns with your values, ensuring it’s appropriately difficult, chunking it down, building in a system of rewards and reinforcements, creating a feedback mechanism and celebrating achievements are important to think about.

But you know what? Sometimes, all that is needed is a really gentle shift. A really simple solution.

For those big goals that I hear so often in coaching [more time with family, less overwhelm, greater balance, less worry, more connection and better health] small changes can deliver profound change:

Walk to work. Simplify your kids’ lunch boxes. Go to bed just a bit earlier each night. Drink more water. Unplug on the tram. Have dinner together, at the table. Turn off the telly. Make eye contact. Read a book. Reduce extra-curricular activities. Draw. Spend your lunch-time outside. Ask for help. Put your phone in a different room. 

Big goal-striving strategies can feel scary and paralysing. But simple solutions feel do-able. The result? You actually do them. And then you begin to achieve.

Simple.

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