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Why is it harder for us to set goals for this year?
Psychology
Has 2020 taken away our aspirations and ambitions? We tell you how to set goals again
If we look back, 2020 has left us many broken dreams. The irruption of the Covid-19 At the end of the first semester of last year, it made us begin to consider our objectives, desires and illusions, and many of the things that we believed to be priorities at that time began to cloud little by little, making way for what really matters.
It is for this reason, perhaps, that we have entered 2021 with different eyes: the unmistakable desire to tackle a new year or to achieve this or that for which we have been working for so long is not noticeable in the environment. Most likely see these Blank pages as the greatest of uncertainties,
whose unknowns will be solved little by little as the days go by … Has 2020 taken away our ambitions and aspirations?
Syra Balanzat Alonso, psychologist at El Prado Psychologists, says that the result of last year marked by a pandemic that has changed and transformed lifestyles, has brought us losses and has made us make constant decisions to adapt to the uncertainty of not knowing what It is going to happen in 15 days, it conditions our lifestyle because we are constantly in a survival mode: «The energy invested in this decision-making is finite, and this means that there comes a time when the constant activation of the defense of struggle to get ahead is exhausted and, therefore, set new goals, costs more”.
How to set goals in 2021
But this does not mean that you have to stop dreaming and get excited about future achievements; we simply have to redirect those objectives because the wishes we want to see fulfilled this year are probably very different from those we were able to consider last year … «It is recommended that they be as realistic as possible and that they be accompanied by an internal reflection on how we we found after all this year to get it and if necessary to go to professionals so that they help us to reprogram ourselves, and renew energy, it would be an interesting objective to be able to achieve all the projects that we want to achieve », he encourages.
And don’t be discouraged. Taking into account the extraordinary situation that all human beings are experiencing without exception, we must keep motivation alive to achieve the purposes we have in mind, as long as they are realistic, as we have said. The psychologist Syra Balanzat Alonso recognizes that since self-motivation appears when energy and the ability to achieve goals is greater than costs, in general, maintaining that energy has been difficult because there have been many costs materialized in uncertainty, helplessness, losses, fears and significant wear and tear.
Although today the motivation, the specialist advises clinging to resilience, which is the ability to overcome all these obstacles. How? According to her, with reflection, the approach to new challenges and the social and family support that we have needed so much in recent months.