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Goal Setting Mistake: Lacking Clarity
Have you experienced the feeling- you are doing more, running faster, accomplishing much, but you feel there is something missing
You may be writing the best goals of the year, and getting the top prize for accomplishing all the goals you set out to do. You may be accomplishing all that you set out to achieve, but at the end you are still unhappy.
If you don't really know what you want in life, you would have been climbing up the wrong tree. SMART goals aren't really that smart if you do not have the big picture in mind.
For example, you have accomplished the project that you set out to do- writing 40 pages of a proposal, researched and finished in one month. It was SMART goal accomplished.
It was:
Specific- yes, you have finished the assignment and completed it
Measurable: yes, you have written 40 pages
Achievable- yes it is
Realistic- yep you you did it!
Time based- one month. It's time measurable alright.
But what if you really hated that job and what you really wanted to do was something more creative, or something to do with meeting people, and you've never been the administrative type, nor ever wanted to.
It's not your first love.
It's your circumstances, peers, influence, necessity, etc that landed you in this.
Lack of clarity is the most common goal setting mistake that people make
They're already entrenched in a situation. They have to accomplish tasks. So they set goals.
They have not taken one step backward and looked at things from a bigger perspective.
Examine yourself.
Is this the job or task you really love or are passionate about?
Can you see yourself doing the same thing 5 years from now?
10 years from now?
If you didn't have to work for the money, would you see yourself doing the same thing, in the same job?
For goals to be truly real, motivating and motivating and valuable, they must be
Grounded in your deepest values
Balanced.
Consistent and complementary- not opposing one another
Physically possible.
Clarity of purpose.
Vision.
Clarity with balance.
Know yourself.
What you would like to to.
What turns you on.
What do you stand for? What would you defend with your life, if necessary?
If you had only 6 months fo live, what would do with your time?
If your life was perfect in every respect and you were too, what would it look like, feel like, sound like, be like?
Listen to your inner self.
Spend a few minutes a day relaxing, closing eyes, deep and slow breathing.
Think. Dream.
What is important to you?
What do you most value in yourself, your job, a relationship, hobby and friends?
Write down anything that comes to mind. Dream.
Let loose and express yourself . Write it down.
Look at everything you have written and list your top 10 values
You should have your own list.
The values could be : honesty, doing one's best, love, family, being enterprising, independence, self control, spirituality, fairness, security. etc.
Rank them and say what each of these values mean to you.
You have just begun you journey of true goal setting.
Take time to know yourself.
It is worth it.
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