Setting goals is one thing that sets us apart from our animal cousins. We can plan for the future, they can’t. And, achieving our goals is one thing that separates the successful from the rest. Here we look at the role of goals in life and how good you are at fulfilling them.
It’s been taken from our Book Rapper issue: Victory. This was was derived from Heidi Grant Halvorson’s brilliant book Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals.
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Here are three crucial things you need to know about designing your goals…
The whole point of setting goals is to provide direction and a benchmark for decision making. Not choosing makes life more difficult.
The more specific we are about what we want to achieve the better.
Goals are meant to be a stretch. Difficult goals inspire greater effort, force us to strategize how to achieve them and provide greater satisfaction when we’ve fulfilled them.
QUESTION: How good are you at achieving your goals? Do you aim high enough?
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