Focus on your Goal setting part-1

Focus on your Goal setting part-1

 

Goal setting seems to be a perennially hot topic!

Easy to know about and difficult to practice ?

 

It would be very surprising to find an adult in the work force who has not heard about goal setting. A Harvard study of their graduates over thirty years found that there was only a small percentage (3%) of them who actually wrote down their goals--and these were the most successful! You can be certain that every one of those students had repeatedly heard the value of goal setting. Yet only 3% actually wrote down their goals consistently. Imagine what you can do if you both write down your goals and, then, focus on them consistently every day, every week, until they are accomplished!

 

What is it that causes what I call the "New Year's Resolution Syndrome"? You probably know the one I'm thinking of. People make resolutions, work hard at them for a few weeks, maybe even a few months, and then forget them. Next year, they make the same New Year's Resolutions. That is the syndrome. It is self- defeating and self-sabotaging. So why so many people do does it?

 

They may be making goals that are too global, too extensive, and too unrealistic for the time frame, body type or current finances. That is not to say that they are not worthy goals. They need to be broken apart into smaller, more specific, attainable pieces. The elephant analogy is still the best one I know of to illustrate good goal setting. You probably know it. "How do you eat an elephant? One spoonful at a time" So it is with goals. Make spoon size goals and accomplished them easily. One you've mastered this, get a bigger spoon!

 

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