Right now, at the start of the year, the good intentions we made on New Year's Eve are still buzzing around in our heads. No wonder, after all it is much easier to set goals in our heads, but we often fail to achieve them. How do we achieve our goals in the long term? If we do it like Laurence de la Ferrière! With these five tips, you too can achieve your goals in the future.

1. achieve your goals: Choose a goal that is important to you

Walk to the South Pole all by yourself like Laurence de la Ferrière - as utopian as it sounds, if you set this as your own personal goal, you have the opportunity to achieve it. How? With an iron will and discipline. Hard training and perfect preparation are of course also part of this. Focus on your goal and work consistently to achieve it. How many steps do I need to realize my dream? How much time do I want to spend on achieving it? How can my goal be integrated into my everyday life?

2. say goodbye to your inner bastard

Comfort and fear are the enemies of progress and the culprits when it comes to losing sight of goals and ultimately failing. So send your couch potato self and your inner bastard into the desert and get active!

3. keep your goal in sight

Focus on what is important to you. Keep your goal in sight and work on achieving it every day. Excuses have had their day, as have distractions. Your goal is what should drive you. You can also remind yourself of it from time to time. Whether you write it down or say it out loud - you know best what will help you achieve it. Just never lose sight of it.

4. take the time you need

Depending on what your personal goal is, it may take some time to achieve it. Rome was not built in a day and goals can rarely be realized in the blink of an eye. And if they are, then perhaps the goal was formulated too simply.

5 Accept setbacks and failures

We humans are human and failure is a part of life. Accept that. Because the path to the goal is not always straightforward. Laurence de la Ferrière certainly had to experience this on her barefoot journey to the South Pole. The important thing is to get up again after a defeat or setback, focus on your goal and keep going. Perhaps you have taken the wrong route so far? Rethink your tactics and change something. This is the only way to make it work in the long term.