3 Steps To Achieve Your Goals, Even When They’re Beyond Your Current Capabilities

Goals should stretch you.

Growth occurs under tension, and you establish goals for some level of growth, am I right? They should make you uncomfortable, borderline anxious to pursue. But, even if you don’t fully achieve the goal, your pursuit has helped you become better in some meaningful way.

Unfortunately, most people don’t achieve their goals or fail to get started because their goals are beyond their current capabilities, so they give up.

If you want to reach your goals, follow these steps:

Step 1: Define Your Unique Ability

As Dan Sullivan coaches, your unique ability is “the activities that bring you the most excitement and energy and produce the biggest impact.”

For me, my unique abilities revolve around strategy design, complex problem resolution, and working on big deals. These are also the things that get me excited to do the work.

Because I know where my unique abilities fall, I can gauge how successful I’ll be in starting a particular goal.

Step 2: Create A Vision

Every goal needs a vision.