How to Make the Achievement of Your Goals Inevitable
About a year ago I was introduced to a concept called inevitability thinking by one of my mentors, Eben Pagan. This is a very powerful concept and if applied can have a huge impact on achieving your goals.
Before discussing inevitability thinking, first let’s take a look at the way people are motivated to achieve. Typically there are two types of approaches to achieving a large goal. Some people are goal setters that take a large goal and break it into smaller goals, trying to achieve each smaller goal. Others are motivated more by problem solving. Problem solvers try to figure out what problems need to be solved and work out how to solve them to reach the overall goal, or solve the bigger problem. No matter which approach works best for the individual, a lot of goals never get reached, or problems solved, when they could have with the correct focus and accountability.
What if you could set up the conditions so achieving your goal was made almost inevitable. Putting the conditions in place and creating an environment that promotes achieving goals is what drives inevitability thinking. By way of a few examples let’s see how this can be applied.
Let’s say you have decided you want to lose some weight and start eating healthier. Most people can stick to a plan on their own for a few days or maybe a few week if they go it alone. Now let’s say the same person hired a personal trainer, had healthy food delivered and had a structured meal plan, with friends or coworkers holding them accountable. With all this in place, the person has set up conditions that makes their success inevitable if they really are committed.
Another example might be an entrepreneur that wants their business to succeed. It can be very easy to get distracted or not focus on top priority items. If this entrepreneur where to join a mastermind group that met weekly and had to check in with an accountability partner on a daily basis their chances for success would increase dramatically. If they also chose a great mentor and surrounded themselves with other entrepreneurs that are successful or at least think the same, they have put in place even more conditions that will help make their success inevitable.
Finally let’s take something really simple. Let’s say you drink a lot of soda or coffee each day and you would like to cut back. Once again this is probably pretty easy for a very short period of time, but what would be a way to ensure success and set up conditions so you would succeed. How about you told a friend you would give them $1 or $10 or even $100 for every soda or coffee you had. I bet if you were honest about it and made it $100 you would cut back pretty quick and your friend would be really motivated to keep tabs on how you are doing.
I hope you can see that by setting the right conditions and creating the right environment you can really make the outcome you desire inevitable. What are some things you can do to make your outcomes inevitable?
