You’re a go-getter. You know how important fitness and health is to reaching your ultimate potential in your life, stepping into your best self. But, there’s something getting in the way of you reaching your goals. It’s not because you don’t want it, because you’re lazy, or because it’s not important. Quite the opposite in fact. So, what’s getting in the way then? 

Here are the top 3 reasons you’re not reaching your goals-and what to do instead so you can step into your best self:

When goals are vague or poorly defined, it can be very difficult to achieve them. If you have not defined your goal in a tangible way, how do you know when you have accomplished it? Short answer-you don’t. And that’s, well, frustrating. Trying to accomplish vague or poorly defined goals is like climbing a mountain with no peak-you keep climbing and climbing, but you can’t get to the top, because there is no top. Exhausting, right? 

You’re reading this because you know how important your health is, and you’re ready to get after your health goals. However, sometimes we can become overly ambitious and set goals that are unrealistic. What happens when we set goals that we can’t reach? We feel disappointed, discouraged, and blah. Not quite the winning formula for feeling accomplished. 

This might sound something like…”Every day, I am going to drink 8 glasses of water, exercise for 60 minutes, meditate, journal, cook a healthy meal, and start my day with a green smoothie.” We can all agree that sounds awesome, right? Awesome, but unrealistic. 

Imagine a scenario in which you set the overly ambition goal mentioned above and have trouble accomplishing it consistently (I mean, who can really do all those things every day?)  

You then proceed to berate yourself with statements like “You’ll never reach your goals,” “You’re such a failure,” “You never accomplish anything.” Sound familiar? Although these statements are used to enhance *motivation,*, let’s be real-how do we really feel after berating ourselves? Yep, pretty low. And that doesn’t take us anywhere. 

Alternatively, guilt expectation phrases also take us in the opposite direction. Key words to look out for here include, should, must, need, etc. These statements might sound something like, “I really should exercise.” “I really need to start eating healthier.” Although these statements are used for *motivation* again, they actually do the opposite-make us feel guilty and disappointed in ourselves.  

That goal sounds pretty awesome, doesn’t it. Why? Because it’s the opposite of the top mistakes mentioned above: Specific. Realistic. Motivating. 

Now you have the formula to be the Rockstar I know you are. Choose 1 goal for this upcoming week and get after it.