Reaching goals is like trying to ride a bike…
April 2nd, 2007 by Allen VoivodThis realization struck me as I was kind of helping teach my son to ride a bike without training wheels (I say “kind of” because in truth I was just shouting advice - he had the tough part figured out in mere minutes).
So after a couple of times of him yelling “Watch out!” and a couple of ankle contusions for the grown ups who didn’t get out of the way, I said to him, “Stop looking at us. Look past us, where you’re going, and you won’t hit us.”
And it worked! The next day, when he decided he was going to slalom between the parking cones at nearby Gunstock Mountain, I told him not to look at the cones, but look betwen them. And that worked, too.
That night, talking over the day with Lani, I remembered something similar I’d read in Awaken the Giant Within by Anthony Robbins. He told a story about learning to drive a race car, and every time he looked at the wall, he drove right into it. His instructor told him to look where he wanted to go, and the car would follow, and it did. So much for my original bike-riding instructions. 
Lani brought up a great point - that this instruction has a lot to do with goal setting and achievement. Namely, if you want to reach a goal, you have to keep your eye on it and head straight for it. If you want to fail, keep looking at all the negative consequences of failing at whatever you set out to do.
No, reaching your goals is never as simple as that. But #1, it’s more fun to think about what success looks like, and #2, in my experience, it’s more likely you’ll succeed keeping an eye on the positive.
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Goals are like riding a bike for the first. That was a great way to describe goals and success. Very useful!
Amanda
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Comment by Amanda — April 3, 2007 @ 9:16 pm