Achieve Success Goal Confidence Ability  For Spirals Build

Success Spirals

One way to build your optimism for success. ¹¹ When you achieve one challenging goal after another, your obviously gain confidence in your ability to succeed. 

Steel recommends that for starters, "it is often best to have process or learning goals rather than product or outcome goals. That is, the goals are acquiring or refining new skills or steps (the process) rather than winning or getting the highest score (the product)."¹²

Wilderness classes and adventure education (rafting, rock-climbing, camping, etc.) are excellent for this kind of thing.¹³ Learn a new skill, be it cooking or karate. Volunteer for more responsibilities at work or in your community. Push a favorite hobby to the next level. The key is to achieve one goal after another and pay attention to your successes.¹⁴Your brain will reward you with increased expectancy for success, and therefore a better ability to beat procrastination.

So: give yourself a series of meaningful, challenging but achievable goals, and then achieve them! Set yourself up for success by doing things you know you can succeed at, again and again, to keep your confidence high.