My name is Stephan Wiedner and I am the co-founder of noomii.com. This is a great article that demonstrates the emotional roller coaster ride of motivation and goal achievement. Way to go Ali and thank you for mentioning us.

From my experience as a life and business coach, part of the reason for the all-too-familiar dip is over-ambitious passion. People want to go from being single and sitting on the couch every night to going on extravagant dates every night. Any major life change is hard to maintain because it's unrealistic.

The best example is going to the gym. Why go from nothing to working out 6 days a week?! A) It's going to be physically painful because at first you're out of shape, B) It's time consuming, C) Not even the most dedicated fitness geeks work-out 6 days a week, D) In week 3, you feel like a failure because you've only worked out 3 times instead of 6 times. So you give up altogether. :-(

The noomii system naturally combats this tendency for over-ambitious passion (sorry for the mini-plug here but it seems pertinent to your readers). By conducting weekly coaching sessions, you get the benefit of discussing your short-term commitments for your highest priority goals. That way, if you're goal is ambitious (i.e. to lose 100 pounds), you're weekly actions will remain more realistic because you'll spend time discussing it with your coaching partner and they will hold you accountable. And a lot of little steps are better than no steps at all.

Happy goal achieving!
Stephan

My name is Stephan Wiedner and I am the co-founder of noomii.com. This is a great article that demonstrates the emotional roller coaster ride of motivation and goal achievement. Way to go Ali and thank you for mentioning us.

From my experience as a life and business coach, part of the reason for the all-too-familiar dip is over-ambitious passion. People want to go from being single and sitting on the couch every night to going on extravagant dates every night. Any major life change is hard to maintain because it's unrealistic.

The best example is going to the gym. Why go from nothing to working out 6 days a week?! A) It's going to be physically painful because at first you're out of shape, B) It's time consuming, C) Not even the most dedicated fitness geeks work-out 6 days a week, D) In week 3, you feel like a failure because you've only worked out 3 times instead of 6 times. So you give up altogether. :-(

The noomii system naturally combats this tendency for over-ambitious passion (sorry for the mini-plug here but it seems pertinent to your readers). By conducting weekly coaching sessions, you get the benefit of discussing your short-term commitments for your highest priority goals. That way, if you're goal is ambitious (i.e. to lose 100 pounds), you're weekly actions will remain more realistic because you'll spend time discussing it with your coaching partner and they will hold you accountable. And a lot of little steps are better than no steps at all.

Happy goal achieving!
Stephan

I am testing http://noomii.com – thx for sharing

Tobias

Cheers
Vincent
Personal Development Blogger

I'd add re-evaluating. Once you've started you will know more. Some things you wanted may be unrealistic – or the way you thought of going about them may not be the best.

If you can find a simpler way or more realistic approach this will probably help motivatioin.

Thanks for putting together this excellent post! :-) Eric.