On the way to achieving goals, obstacles often arise: lack of resources, unforeseen circumstances and other difficulties. However, external factors are far from the main reason why the goals remain unattained. Low personal effectiveness is the main reason for most failures.
Personal effectiveness is often underestimated. Many people believe that a daily planner and routine is enough to move forward successfully. In practice, everything goes wrong: problems unsettle, fatigue and laziness take over any activity, and sometimes an inexplicable period of complete inactivity occurs. To prevent this from happening, it is necessary to work on increasing personal effectiveness.
Set the right goals
The right goal is the foundation of your success. This is where any path should start. The goal should be “yours” and not imposed by someone (parents, friends, advertising, boss). It's easy enough to understand whether you really want what you are striving for. From the very thought of fulfilling your dream, everything inside begins to tremble. To achieve what you want, you will want to get up early without an alarm clock, perform unusual actions, easily overcome goals and not listen to those who say that you will not succeed. The goal with which you "burn" is the key to personal effectiveness.
Get motivated
Low energy levels and low moods are normal. The main thing is not to "get stuck" in this period for a long time. If it's temporary, you just need to rest for a few hours or get a good night's sleep. If the energy decline lasts for several days or even longer, you need to fight this destructive state. Motivation will always help you stay energized. Don't think that just positive thoughts are enough to get you back to productivity. Look at several sources of motivation.
- Visualize your own goals. Imagine that your wish has already come true and try to simulate the situation you are dreaming about. Close your eyes and imagine in great detail what you are striving for. Feel it all as if you already have everything you want.
- Get inspired by other people's successes. Find positive and open motivators (such as popular bloggers) who generously share their success stories, talk about their lives, provide valuable advice and energize.
- Read books on personal growth: such literature will help you shape the right mindset and increase your personal performance.
Develop healthy habits
The right lifestyle is one of the most powerful resources for increasing personal effectiveness. In this case, we are talking about several aspects of life.
- Go for a healthy lifestyle: proper nutrition and regular exercise will charge you with tremendous energy, increase endurance and make you stronger.
- Master time management: competent planning can increase the efficiency of your work several times.
- Come up with personal rituals that will set you up for a particular activity. For example, freshly brewed coffee and certain music can tune in to intelligent performance.
Learn to relax
A busy rhythm of life is impossible without rest periods. If you constantly work at high speeds, sooner or later the body may fail, and your personal efficiency will tend to zero. Take into account the experience of athletes who, during intense training at the limit of their capabilities, always pay maximum attention to quality recovery: without this, it is simply impossible to achieve outstanding results.
- Try to get enough sleep, and if there is too little time for sleep, try to go to bed at least earlier, since it is early bedtime that is the key to good recovery.
- Practice yoga and meditation: regular practice will help you tune in the right mood and increase your internal energy.
- Have periods of total rest when you completely eliminate work moments. It can be either a full-fledged vacation or a weekend in a new environment, or a few hours during which you completely change the type of activity and forget about current affairs.
Business first
Maintaining personal effectiveness is impossible without satisfaction with the result. You can maintain the level of energy as much as you like, make plans, be inspired, but without concrete actions, you will very quickly feel the uselessness and uselessness of your life. That is why it is necessary to act, and not just reason and work on yourself. Break your goal down into small steps, which, in turn, into specific steps. Write them down in a separate table: as you perform action by action, you will see how the implementation of the final result is approaching, and this will significantly increase your further motivation and personal effectiveness.
