What Happens to Goal-Setting Psychology Simplified When Your Physical & Mental Fitness Are Low?
The Goal-setting psychology, however simple, can be thrown out of the window if one is not keeping an eye on ones own physical fitness and well-being. The body – unfit and under-nourished – guarantees lower resilience in ones thinking and increases the tendency to give up easily. So we need to cover that.
It is not making goals, or even achieving them that are the greatest psychological challenges to us with goal-setting. It is coping with difficulties on the journey and weathering the hardships and overcoming the seemingly irreversible challenges.
These can happen with any goal but can present more of a problem the more significant and testing the goal is we have set. The problem could be a train strike, a car breakdown, a broken phone, but we can find a away round
But set a medium or great sized goal, and the test of our endurance are almost always proportionately greater.- the greater the challenge we have set the greater the likely obstacle.
What happens though is not a physical reaction directly to the obstacle. It is the impact on how the psychology we have adopted which can be rendered useless. A goal to be effective requires that our mental picture of it is so vivid and represents so much more of a preferable state for us than where we are currently. It is this gap between where we are now and the prospective achievement which provides us with the mental and physical motivation and energy to bridge or close that gap.
Facing the obstacle we have now a physical challenge in terms of the way our body and brain need to respond. I can tell you, to respect and cherish our body and the physical well-being of our brain is essential.
If we don’t do that, the psychological pressure valve for our motivation fails to function, makes the goal seem far more of a mountain to climb, and reminds us that our current position seems once again a much more acceptable comfort zone.
Our goal is left no less achievable in real terms. Our actual ability, if properly fit, remains unchanged, but we have failed to feed ourselves with the right ingredients. Body, mind and soul are each needed to help us achieve.what, psychologically, we have prepared ourselves to achieve..
Yes, excessive drinking or smoking, late nights, unrelenting stress, can sap our energy and dramatically dilute our motivation.
To make a goal is only the first step. Bad diet, insufficient and ineffective relaxation time, lack of exercise can each seem to be irrelevant aspects if you want to raise your sense of self-esteem over, say, your professional work as a architect or an accountant. Yet tiredness alone can be lethal..
So even a goal to keep all the physical faculties well-honed can be well worthwhile adopting for when you hit a large proverbial hole ahead of you. Make sure you are not just to tired to keep working for the goal.
And if you would like more insights into the mechanics of goal-setting then please leave a comment on either of my relevant blogs. I am also about to publish an eBook on Goal-setting, so watch out for that. In the meantime, do please cherish yourself as well as you commit to your goal-setting. In that way you can help your body and brain “set your mind to achieve it”.
And if you would like more insights into the psychological mechanics then please leave a comment on either of my relevant blogs. I am also about to publish an eBook on Goal-setting, so watch out for that. In the meantime, do please cherish yourself as well as you commit to your goal-setting. In that way you can help your body and brain “set your mind to achieve it”.
Gerry Neale can be reached on http://psychologysimplified.blogspot.com and http://cognitivementors.blogspot.com