Life is a journey of goals and achieving those goals, and this is where we all have similarities, but the way in which we achieve goals might be different.
Whether you are a student or a business leader, or even an athlete trying to compete for the Olympics, you might have your very own technique of setting goals and achieving them.
One of the most traditional ways of doing this is the creation of very big and monumental goals and then slowly but surely moving towards those goals. Think of it as something equivalent to climbing Mount Everest.
These goals look lofty and they always cast is shadow on your journey of improvement. Works for some people but for most people, these huge lofty goals can become quite heavy and overbearing and be difficult to achieve because of the sheer size of these goals.
For example, you can think of these big goals as a junior athlete creating a goal of getting a gold medal at the Olympics one day, no problem with something like that, but it does not really create important benchmarks, milestones that this young athlete can follow towards that goal.
Similarly, big goals are good to look at and make posters out of but they are not really functional when it comes to helping someone move in a methodical step-by-step process.
The solution? The only solution to this problem is to break down bigger goals into smaller microtasks in the form of daily reminders.
Today, we are going to talk about why breaking big goals into daily reminders is much more effective and why microtasks are much more powerful at doing their job. Before we do that, we need to understand what microtasks are.
What Are Microtasks?
Microtasks are just the opposite of big goals because microtasks are basically small, actionable steps that you can take in order to move towards your goal.
For instance, if your goal is to score the best marks in your class, the microtasks are going to be the breakdown of your study pattern and how many chapters you are going to read every day and how much you will be able to study at the end of each week, etc.
Microtasks are excellent when it comes to breaking down something big and complicated into something that can be done daily and something that is actually quite simple to execute if broken down into each step.
Another analogy for this would be to break down each floor of a building into all the steps that it takes for you to reach that floor. At a glance, a building might look very tall but if you break down the action of climbing it into each step, then things will look much more doable.
Why Microtasks Work: The Psychology Behind Daily Reminders
Lowers Resistance
One of the best things about breaking your big goals into smaller, multiple microtasks that you can accomplish every day is that it will make you feel as if the goal is much more manageable and it will completely change your perception regarding the goal. Imagine having to drink three litres of water every day and now imagine having to drink 100 ml of water at the interval of a few minutes.
Keep Goals Top of Mind
One of the biggest negatives of a bigger goal is that it can sometimes not stay in focus and can get buried within the chaos of the day. It is just like keeping the bigger goal in a corner of your mind and not really thinking about it because you are not going to accomplish it in a single day. But now imagine having a smaller goal that you have to continuously do every day. That makes you keep it in your mind.
Build Consistency
When you keep on repeating something, you automatically become good at it, and that is the mastery when it comes to microtasks.
Bigger goals are nice to have as posters on the wall and nice to talk about but when you have to do something about that, you need to build repetition and build routines that create habits for you.
Reduce Decision Fatigue
When you keep on doing something every day, you tend to regret it less because when you have set some kind of lofty goal, you might backtrack from it if you think too much about it.
But when you have to do it every day, it will simply encourage you to accept it, and you will know exactly what you are doing each day and it will remove those layers of ambiguity.
Reduce Overwhelm
Let’s face it, big goals can be overwhelming at times because of the size of these goals but microtasks, on the other hand, feel much smaller. You can think of it like the difference between the height of a floor in a building and the height of a single step; the single step will look much easier and more achievable to climb than an entire floor all at once.
Encourage Accountability
When you have a big goal to fulfil, accountability does not really become an issue because it just becomes like any big project with a lot of time in your hands, that is when accountability starts to disappear. But when you have to keep on doing something every day and keep track of it, you become accountable and if you are using a reminder app for that, then the personal accountability becomes so much more powerful.
Create Positive Reinforcement
There is a lot of difference between achieving one giant goal and achieving something every day. The giant goal can feel huge but the smaller goal is going to feel much better when the dopamine hits every day, so that your small wins help you stay motivated for a much longer period of time.
Track Progress Over Time
The only way you can truly break down bigger goals into smaller microtasks and effectively utilise the benefits of this is to track the progress over time and tracking is quite easy when you have broken down something big into smaller chunks that you can record each day. You just need a reminder app to do so.
That is why microtasks are quite powerful at what they do, and all you need to do as to start with the big picture and focus on what you really want to do and then break it down into smaller bits.
When you have to track your progress every day with microtasks and when you need to be reminded to do something every day, it makes a lot of sense to utilise technology for this.
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