Your profession and your career for the next 10 years or so has many to do with what you decide today. You should have a goal or objective of what you want to achieve in the next 5 years, 10 years, 15 years and so on. This is the essence of goal setting.
The school teach you the academic and passing the papers but it does not taught you to make decisions and create goals. However this does not mean you can’t learn to master goal setting. Sometimes we are being so obsessed and enthusiastics with our goals but at the end we realize that we do not achieve our objectives.
There seem to be something wrong with the alignment of your goal structure and the implemenation. And this was either contributed by external and internal factors, in which some of them we do not realize.
What could they be?
1. No black and white.
The principle of goal setting says that you must make your goals visible in the form of writing and documentation. If you store your goals in your mind they will diminish at a rate faster than you can think of. By writing, you have turned an imaginary thinking into a solid substance where you can see it over and over.
Off course, that being said, you can’t just write your goals in a page of a book, put it back in the shelf, and return to your daily routine. The goals must be viewed frequently from time to time to ensure at all times you know what you want to achieve and to ensure that you’re on the right track in achieving your goals.
2. You don’t have beliefs in yourself
Without believe and faith it is literally impossible for you to achieve what you want to achieve. Today you say to yourself you want to be financially independence in 15 years. Tomorrow you come back to the goal, analyze it and say that you can only achieve that in 20 years. The next day it becomes 25 years. On the next day the goal goes up in the smoke.
You will also not be able to capitalize your potential, strengths and talents to your advantage, because you yourself are unsure what you can do best. If you don’t trust yourself, then who will?
3. The fear factor
The feeling of fear. You think by having a goal, you’re putting yourself in a pressure cooker. You will be doomed if you can’t achieve your goals. If you watch “The Dodgeball” movie, the main character (Vince Vaughn) was asked by his lawyer what his goals are, to which he said, “I don’t have any, I don’t have goals, I don’t have pressure. And that feels good.”
Those with negative thoughts think that goals set will always be impossible to achieve. Hence they stop imagining and dreaming. He will only think of the problems arise whenever he put up some objectives, so in the end the say, “Let’s don’t have any.” They will also worry that by having goals, they will face the consequences of facing the people surrounding them who might say, “What happen to your goal?”, “Why can’t you achieve it?”, “I told you so”, and so on.
4. A “part-time” goal setter
You set goals just to make sure you feel good. You can tell your relatives, your friends, your office mates that you have goals. Sometimes you have too many goals eventually you lose focus. For example, you intend to become an actor when you turn 26 and at the same time aiming to be a doctor, and a part time sports commentator.Or maybe after 6 months, you have a completely different goals, and you forget those you have set 6 months back.
Good to have goals but if as far as goal reaching and implementation is concerned, you’re nowhere near, so might as well you forget about everything.
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