Change is hard. Maintaining the status quo can be even tougher.

Published: June 26, 2023, 9 a.m.

Working toward a big goal takes a lot of grit and discipline. You may imagine that everything will be so much easier once you reach your goal.\xa0 You can finally relax and enjoy your accomplishment. But that transition, from active change to maintenance, can be really tricky. And we\u2019re often completely unprepared for that.\xa0

If we\u2019re not careful, we can let what we\u2019ve attained slip through our fingers, simply because we don\u2019t feel as motivated or rewarded by maintaining the status quo as we did by making progress toward it. \xa0

In this episode, I have a few suggestions for how we can prepare better for what happens after we\u2019ve achieved our goal.\xa0

Things to listen for:

  • How the fear of backsliding can diminish the excitement of achieving a goal.
  • Why we need to learn how to sustain new behaviors without relying on external tracking or counting methods.
  • How electronic \u201crewards\u201d hijack our brain
  • How to celebrate progress toward the goal without progress becoming the goal
  • Why reaching a goal is less important than what achieving that goal enables us to do.
  • What are the habits and behaviors required to maintain that new state?
  • Developing the identity that matches our new status quo

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Creating your transformation toolkit (Weighless workshop)

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