Time Management In An Instant

8Beware the Stop-Goal

Whenever you set your sights on a goal (regardless of its size or scope), you also create the possibility for its polar opposite: the stop-goal. A stop-goal is anything that looks as if it might get in the way of you achieving your objective, and usually involves feelings of fear, confusion, overwhelm, worry, discomfort, and doubt. The stop-goal is always in relative proportion to the size of the aim you have set, so a small goal usually sparks a relatively small amount of stop-goal, and a large goal often dredges up a large amount of stop-goal.

For example, let’s say you’ve set a relatively small goal to clean out your file drawer. You open up your long-forgotten folders and confront the ugly truth about all the papers ...