{"id":124640,"date":"2024-03-22T13:34:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T17:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=124640"},"modified":"2024-03-22T13:34:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T17:34:40","slug":"how-to-take-action-on-your-goals-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-take-action-on-your-goals-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Take Action on Your Goals: 3 Tactics to Reach Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What goals are you trying to achieve? Does your life keep getting in the way of achieving them?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you\u2019re stuck in a rut, nothing but action will get you out\u2014so long as that action is well-considered and productive after taking a pause to review your best options. Continually taking action toward your goal turns progress into a habit that makes future slowdowns easier to avoid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-take-action-on-your-goals\/\">how to take action on your goals<\/a> with these tactics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-action-tactic-1-break-it-down\">Action Tactic #1: Break It Down<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Breaking down projects into smaller goals is a common strategy recommended by productivity experts. Here&#8217;s Adam Alter&#8217;s specific advice for how to take action on your goals: Create arbitrary benchmarks where none logically exist, such as rewarding yourself for every hour worked rather than completing specific tasks. <strong>Dividing a long-term task into smaller units lets you defer the emotional weight associated with your overall goal.<\/strong> Instead of being hampered by that weight, you can focus on the practical details of simply doing the next step without agonizing over your total progress.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: One way to follow Alter\u2019s advice to break large goals down into bite-size units is to use Ryder Carroll\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-bullet-journal-method\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bullet Journal Method<\/a>.\u201d Carroll says that <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-bullet-journal-method\/part-4#pursuing-continual-improvement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it\u2019s a common mistake to try to accomplish sweeping goals all at once<\/a>, and that reducing those goals to small, self-contained projects can prevent you from being overwhelmed. Carroll\u2019s approach is <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-bullet-journal-method\/part-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a customizable notebook journaling system<\/a> that gives your efforts structure and helps set priorities while keeping work toward overarching goals contained to individual, manageable tasks.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-action-tactic-2-discard-what-s-inessential\">Action Tactic #2: Discard What\u2019s Inessential<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>One way to ramp up your progress is to <strong>discard any inessential steps when you break your project into its components<\/strong>. After all, as stated earlier, everyone slows down in the middle of a project, whether it\u2019s designing a month-long training program or building a business that\u2019s years in the making. Alter suggests that wherever possible, you should cut out as much of that middle as you can. Plus, reducing a task to digestible chunks creates many more \u201cbeginnings\u201d and \u201cends,\u201d those points when your energy and motivation are strongest, while shrinking the drawn-out middle of your journey into smaller paths that are individually easier to cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/when\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>When<\/em><\/a>, business columnist Daniel Pink concurs with Alter about the motivating power of beginnings and ends, but he writes that they\u2019re tied more closely to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/when#the-daily-rhythm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">our biological rhythms<\/a> than Alter suggests. Pink writes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/when#the-crest-the-potential-of-beginnings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">you can maximize the power of beginnings<\/a> by either timing them to your energy peak of the day or to a moment that carries special meaning, such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/when#the-recovery-the-power-of-endings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the completion of some other goal<\/a>. While Pink favors powering through the middle \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/app\/book\/when#the-slump-the-struggle-of-middles\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">slump<\/a>,\u201d others agree with Alter that you should eliminate every inessential step you can\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2024\/01\/rid-your-organization-of-obstacles-that-infuriate-everyone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a tactic that works for organizations<\/a> as effectively as it can for individuals.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-action-tactic-3-general-housekeeping\">Action Tactic #3: General Housekeeping<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes the next step toward your goal still won\u2019t be clear, but there\u2019s still productive work you can do. Every project has some tedious aspect that often gets put to the side\u2014some of which grow into the pitfalls discussed earlier in this guide. When you\u2019re stumped, Alter writes that <strong>one way to keep moving is to do preventative maintenance<\/strong> on the less-than-thrilling aspects of your work. For example, a writer stuck on her next chapter might spend time double-checking her royalty statements. Not only does this type of work let your creative mind rest, it also prevents potential future roadblocks by stopping small tasks from blooming into big ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(Shortform note: According to Gretchen Rubin, author of <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-happiness-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Happiness Project<\/em><\/a>, preventative maintenance does more than give your creative mind a break: <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-happiness-project\/month-1#improve-your-mental-energy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">It actively helps remove mental clutter<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/remove-distractions\/\">eliminating distractions<\/a> that can pull your focus away from where you want it. Rubin recommends this in a literal sense\u2014tidying up the clutter in your home\u2014as well as in <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-happiness-project\/month-1#take-care-of-mental-clutter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the figurative sense of cleaning up the overwhelming mental mess<\/a> from a too-long <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/gtd-to-do-list\/\">to-do list<\/a>. Whereas Alter suggests doing this when you\u2019re bogged down in the middle of a project, Rubin recommends removing clutter <em>first<\/em>, before you launch yourself on a new endeavor.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What goals are you trying to achieve? Does your life keep getting in the way of achieving them? When you\u2019re stuck in a rut, nothing but action will get you out\u2014so long as that action is well-considered and productive after taking a pause to review your best options. 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