How to make keeping your goals setting going
Motivating yourself to stick to your goals just got easier with the launch of a free self-motivational website – www.BetchaIcan.co.uk. BetchaIcan inspires users to stick to their goals and uses the age-old ‘carrot and stick’ method to reward success.
Being able to stick to your goals very often become hard work once the euphoria of the setting the goal ends and BetchaIcan addresses the key reasons for this.
Often the problem is a lack of incentive. If the goal itself is not a fun task, such as dieting or taking a break from alcohol, people may need additional motivation to get through to the end. With BetchaIcan, registered users agree to treat themselves to the reward of their choice (the ‘carrot’) when their goal is achieved. The ‘stick’ is an agreement to donate money to a chosen charity if unsuccessful, which ensures that someone less fortunate benefits if they don’t see their goal through.
The problem can also be one of accountability. If nobody else knows about the goal, it can be easy to make excuses and let oneself down. A powerful incentive to keep going is to commit the goal at www.BetchaIcan.co.uk and ask friends to act as ‘Bet Buddies’, allowing them to keep an eye on progress and vote at the end to confirm whether the goal has been achieved.
By making the commitment in writing, it greatly increases the chances of sticking with it. Setting an achievable timescale helps to track when the challenge was started and, more importantly, gives a foreseeable end date. BetchaIcan allows users to keep a progress blog to help keep motivation up throughout the challenge, which hugely improves success rate.
Challenges can also be set for others at BetchaIcan, offering a way to encourage family and friends to achieve their goals and agreeing to help them along the way.
Marc Carter, Founder of BetchaIcan, said: “I first used these very goal setting techniques to give up alcohol for a month. As it was so successful, I’ve continued to keep other goals like this for many years, since then, and wanted to help others do the same, in a way that was enjoyable and easy to do.”