Daily practice = daily motivation
Are you creating systems of daily or weekly habits that help you reach your goals? Then you might have noticed that you get something pretty cool in the bargain:
Frequent, short-term achievement.
Here’s the thing:
Goals are awesome as long-term incentives. But that long-term aspect has its limitations.
Want to increase total contributions in your annual campaign by 15%?
Yes, that will be great when it happens, and that's worth celebrating.
But that can only happen once a year.
On the other hand, if you set up a system of daily and weekly habits that point you in that direction, and you actually stick to that system, you get small victories to celebrate every day, and every week.
If you stick to that system for a month, then you have a streak of small victories, and that streak by itself is worth celebrating.
Sure, it's not the big celebration you'll have when you reach your annual goal, but it's a series of real, if small, victories.
Try it for yourself. I think you'll see it's a genuine motivator in the short term for behaviors you know will help you get what you want in the long term.
All the best,
A.