Are you focused on where you’re going in life?

Do you have goals that you are chasing?

Personally?

Professionally?

Financially?

Spiritually?

Are you reaching those goals?

Or, is chasing those goals becoming tiresome?

Are they becoming overwhelming?

Are you like most humans who right before the achieve the goal move it or even change it?

Are you playing goal whack a mole?

Why the heck do we do this?

Is it because of fear of failure?

Is it because we are afraid of getting stuck in comfort?

The answer to this question might be vastly different for each one of us.

I can tell you that personally I’ve been chasing goals for a long time and sometimes I have gotten burnt out, overwhelmed and felt like stopping it all. Hitting the breaks.

Making a hard stop!

You see, there were several things that because of chasing those goals, I had let fall to the wayside. And the importance of these things are often times overlooked.

Maybe this video will help you.

Just maybe, you are facing the same issues and maybe you’ve lost your way with several important things that go with goal chasing.

At least with the long game goal chasing that has to be in place to get you to those goals that matter.

The first thing I lost sight of was my measuring stick.

I forgot to stop, look behind me and measure where I had come from.

I forgot to keep track of all the times that someone thanked me in email, or said nice words on social, or interaction at events that I have spoken at.

I was not measuring how I had impacted someone’s life in a positive way.

Do you have a way to measure this for yourself?

I now have a notebook in Evernote that I clip these items into or manually add them. 

That way when I feel like I’m on the treadmill of life moving real fast and going know where, I can open the notebook, sit in silence, and measure the significance of my historical actions.

The next thing I lost track of was my attitude of gratitude. The ability and the designed time to think about and jot down the great things that happen everyday.

No matter how big or small.

Having a place to write these positive life moments down on a daily basis is so important. That way you can have a place to focus on the good therefore battening against your victim mentality. 

So in an effort to make this process of staying the course easier for myself, I created a note in Evernote for my journaling.

How do you keep track of your daily bits of good?

Now, full transparency here, these are new actions I’m taking and testing as I move forward in life.

Also, I feel like at this point I should say, you don’t have to use Evernote, you can use any tool that works best for you.

But, no matter what focus on collecting catalyst or significance focused moments and list out on a daily basis what you are thankful for.

Don’t let your path to your goals become like a treadmill in a gym where you are moving a ton but going know where.

Let it be a pleasurable walk where you are looking at the trees,