What’s Your Impossible Goal?
I know that most of us want to be realistic in our goals in life. But I’ve started subscribing to a different way of thinking. I’ll still make “safe” goals for where I want to be, but my new habit is to have at least one impossible goal that I will strive to achieve at all times. By impossible goal, I mean something that seems so out of reach, but the prospect of meeting your great expectations would outweigh any small goal you’ve ever set.
Why would you make impossible goals? One word: belief. I had earlier wrote that belief is the real idea maker, and believing gives us the motivation and open mind to make the plans needed to solve whatever problem you have. It doesn’t matter if you don’t succeed or not, but it matters that you did everything you could to make your big goal a success.
Let’s say your impossible goal is to make a million dollars in the next 6 months. Hey, you have to believe it can happen to you. Most of us would never entertain the thought of this impossible goal, but you need to try. What will happen is you now have belief, which will give you more motivation to come up with the ideas and resources to work towards your goal. Let’s suppose you didn’t make a million dollars, but only $50,000. Well, you probably well exceeded any small goal you’d ever have. Most of us would give an arm and a leg for 50K in 6 months. But because you set the huge impossible goal, you’ve put your expectations so far outward that even a relative failure is still a success.
So go ahead and make your impossible goal. Set crazy deadlines to make your goal happen. Try and make friends with a celebrity, get engaged in 3 months, or get a six figure job in 30 days. You can still set small goals while you’re working towards the impossible ones, but if you even come close to reaching that great dream, you’ll be glad you thought big.
