{"id":1569,"date":"2012-08-09T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2012-02-04T17:43:55","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T23:43:55","slug":"reasonable-goals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/reasonable-goals\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasonable Goals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of an actual transaction between David and a client in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.topcoachingtechniques.com\/\">Top Coaching Techniques<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>David: I\u2019ve got an idea. Is it possible that at least one day out of the past 365 that you\u2019ve set yourself targets that cannot actually be achieved in a day?<\/p>\n<p>Client: [Laughing] Yes. A lot more than one, I would think.<\/p>\n<p>David: Is it possible that could be a factor in your frustration?<\/p>\n<p>Client: Yes, probably so.<\/p>\n<p>David: Right.<\/p>\n<p>Client: That\u2019s why it is hard to not get frustrated if you have goals, and don\u2019t achieve them. It\u2019s a permanent state of frustration.<\/p>\n<p>David: I can relate. I spent most of the last year in that space. At the end of each day I was constantly frustrated because I wouldn\u2019t have achieved everything that I had said I wanted to. I have some quotes for you that will set the scene, and then I\u2019ll get practical. So, \u2018When you die, your inbox will not be empty.\u2019 Right?<\/p>\n<p>Client: Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>David: Actually, I\u2019m going to leave it at one quote. So that\u2019s always going to happen. Now, I wonder what it would be like for you, I really do, to set targets for the next 7 days that you could actually hit \u2013 and hit them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is an excerpt of an actual transaction between David and a client in Top Coaching Techniques. David: I\u2019ve got an idea. Is it possible that at least one day out of the past 365 that you\u2019ve set yourself targets that cannot actually be achieved in a day? Client: [Laughing] Yes. A lot more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[159],"tags":[275,276,41,349],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1573,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.life-coaching-resource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}