Goal setting needs closer attention.
Don’t bother about goal setting.
Why bother about goal setting when the same old approach delivers the same old outcomes? Without understanding, it’s a waste of time. You decide to work on improving your future. So, you set some goals for yourself. Then, you select activities because you know what it will take to succeed, and you’re ‘committed’ to achieving each goal.
But after a month, not much has changed. You started pretty strong, but then life got in the way. Your day-to-day activities derail your best intentions.
Now, you try to simplify things with a prioritised list to keep you on track. The only problem is that half your time is devoted to re-prioritising your list, and the other half justifying why a lower priority task should be actioned. Of course, ‘stuff’ still gets in the way.
When does goal setting not work?
So while setting goals seems like it should work, it doesn’t. Why do so many people set New Year’s Resolutions only to fall back into old habits on the same old track to their future? The reason is that while most people know what to do, they either:
- Lack of motivation is needed to implement the necessary actions.
- They wrestle with conflicting intentions and beliefs.
- Become too busy handling day-to-day ‘stuff’.
Self-motivation is powerful but often elusive. The challenge becomes moving from the logical to the emotional aspects of your life. When you are emotionally self-motivated, you won’t let distractions and interruptions knock you off course. You become driven to achieve your goals. You’re enthusiastic about them, so you become energised and more action-oriented.
It is vital to understand your conflicting intentions and beliefs. This is one of the main reasons, if not the main reason, people fail to achieve their goals. You have a contradictory purpose when you say or want one thing, but you want or believe something else in your head or heart.
When you’re self-motivated and not in conflict, you’ll reach your goals faster and easier than you ever thought possible. Good goal-setting and implementation affect everything: family, relationships, money, and success.
Goal setting, the bottom line
Have you ever wondered how some people achieve far more than others? Attributing other people’s success to good luck, valuable contacts, and deep pockets can be tempting. In reality, those who achieve great things in life don’t have any luck, friends, or money more than anyone else. So what do they have? What makes them different?
The bottom line is that setting goals and working towards them will often be frustrating until you are genuinely motivated for self-improvement and have cleared out any critical conflicting intentions and beliefs.
Quotable Quotes
“Only by being sufficiently self-motivated and free of conflict can goals be achieved. Most people ‘put the cart before the horse’ by setting goals before they’re truly committed to making a change”. Peter sergeant
“To accomplish your ambitious goals, you must always acquire new knowledge and develop yourself as you learn new skills”. Peter Sergeant