There are such great side effects to setting and hitting goals. It's like it creates a ripple effect in your life; the benefits echoing out far beyond the original desired effects.
Like with exercise goals: Yea, they're good for achieving overall health and fitness, and you're gonna feel better in your clothes, but it goes so far beyond that.
You get the more-oxygen-to-your brain alertness, and the natural-high hormones flooding your brain making you feel happier and all-around better. Then there's that unbeatable feeling of building credibility with yourself. Saying what you're going to do...and then doing it gives you a positive reputation with yourself.
I think the side effects might be even better than the original goals.
The very best side effect, for me, is that feeling like: 'Phew! I don't have to think about that for the rest of the day!' My exercise goal is met for the day, or I already did my blog post. It's incredibly freeing.
I feel like posting every day why it's a miracle that I hit my goals. Sometimes the reasons are more dramatic than others. If I'm flying three long flights in a day, or on vacation in another country and working on restoring a house and...
But, really, every day has it's reasons for not reaching goals, if only the I just don't feel like it reason.
Today I had to run away from home to sit in a coffee shop and hit my goal...but now I'm free for another day knowing, however imperfectly, I did what I said I was going to do.
'Phew! That's done.'
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