Why Your Goal Setting Failed Again This Year
(and it's only February...)
Kevin Hogan
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More Stupid Ways to Make Sure Your Goal Setting Fails
4) You set a 20-year or life set of goals that is ridiculous. Reality
check: You have NO clue what life will be like 20 years from now and
can't fathom what will be going on in life, so this ranks as one of the
stupidest activities you can waste your time on.
5) You spend a half hour with your goals each day as if they were
people. (You NEED to spend about 1 minute with your mid-term goals
each day and then about two minutes on the core stuff that needs to
get done THAT DAY and then go about doing them, until they are done.)
6) You spend hours writing down your values and beliefs. (Instead of
spending two hours writing down what YOU WANT your values and
beliefs to be INSTEAD of what HAS BEEN important to you up
until now that has caused 100% abject failure.)
Yep, a total 100% waste of time.
What you believe today is, in part, what got you here today. This isn't
true for Ahmed in Ethiopia who wrote me and asked me why Americans
don't help stop genocide, rape and total starvation of innocent people
in Ogaden and Somalia. What those people believe doesn't make a
diddle of difference.
You CAN'T UPRISE AGAINST HEALTHY PEOPLE WITH MACHINE
GUNS when you are laying on the ground starved and withering away
barely able to breathe the next breath.
(Friday, I promised Ahmed I would tell you about his people's life.)
Back to those of us lucky enough to be able to do something for
others, things that matter.. in the world...
Be comforted by one thing.
Here we are 40 days into 2008 and I promise you only 1/1000 people
who were not used to "getting things done" are doing much of
anything toward... anything they deemed important at the end of the year.
Maybe the wife wasn't supportive (who cares).
Maybe the kids didn't realize this was as much for them as
anyone. (Too bad)
Maybe you just couldn't get past flat out laziness to bust butt
an extra 4-10 hours per day in 2008 and instead set "just an hour
a day to success" goals that could never have worked in the first
place.
