Practicing goal setting is very important. It’s significance is usually underrated by most people. When you have a target to achieve, it helps you focus on important things, take action and prevent taking unnecessary actions.
Doing goal setting is not just about writing down your goals on a piece of paper. There is so much more to it. There are several best practices to follow to ensure that your goal setting practice is effective and can makes a desired impact.
One of my friends recently committed herself to a healthier, fitter lifestyle. It started off as a very healthy change for her, but at some stage it turned into an obsession. She now spends hours a day training, documents and reviews everything she eats, yet is not training for anything specific.
Setting goals gives you short-term and long-term motivation. Having well thought out goals helps you set focus on the acquisition of required knowledge and helps you to plan and organize your resources and your time so that you can get the best out of your life. The basics of goal setting will involve deciding what you really want to do with your personal life and what short term and long term goals you need to achieve it.
Setting goals gives you short-term and long-term motivation. Having well thought out goals helps you set focus on the acquisition of required knowledge and helps you to plan and organize your resources and your time so that you can get the best out of your life. The basics of goal setting will involve deciding what you really want to do with your personal life and what short term and long term goals you need to achieve it.
In part 1 of my Six minutes to Success journal, we talked about whether self improvement programs were worth their time and effort.
Are you frustrated in life? Do you feel like you’re not getting anywhere, and you’re nowhere near achieving all your potential? You’re smart and you’ve got some skills, but somehow you’re stuck in a rut and just spinning your wheels.
Statistics tell us 90% of Americans will make New Year’s resolutions. Sadly, 50% of us will have abandoned our goals by the end of January. Of those still holding on to hope, only 50% will be realized. So, why do we continue this tortuous ritual? Perhaps it is the hope that this year we will make better choices. This year, we tell ourselves, will finally be the year we turn that corner, flip over the new leaf, and begin again.
Every New Year I encounter the same interior battle between the good business practice of setting goals and my Christian understanding of God’s outworking of our purpose and plan. When does goal setting or making New Year’s resolutions cross the Christian line into self-determination?
I was thinking today, for whatever reason, how disheartening it is when people begin a journey, whatever that journey is, and they never get to the end of it. Now, it isn’t so disheartening because they fell short of a goal, but because they will probably end up worse off than they were when they started.