Goal Setting Advantage - Legend or logic? Part 2 of 4 Self Help Articles | July 26 Riley Ridley Hoodie , 2008 Is the goal-setting process the difference between those who achieve success and those who don't? Do my goals have to be SMART?
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In this article, we consider the goal-setting process and support for the concept of SMART goals.
Part 1 of this article considered the myth of the Yale study on goal setting and we discussed what a goal is and if it is necessary to have one.
Perhaps it's not really about knowing your goal but about the goal-setting process. After all, few people who find themselves staring at a computer screen all day answering emails to earn a buck are likely to have decided this as their career goal.
What is goal setting? Inadvertently, or deliberately, people asking us when young "what do you want to be..." have set us on a process of goal-setting. They are asking us to peer in our mind's eye into the distant future and describe our goal. With little worldly experience David Montgomery Hoodie , we most likely think of people we admire that through their job demonstrate what is valuable to our young minds.
What would you like to achieve in X years that having achieved it will satisfy your personal values? Would you ask a ten year old that question? No? It's unlikely that they would understand - but with the massive leaps in education and increasing pressure on children to know a whole lot more than the current generation of mature adults, they may well be asking you that question and be surprised if you can't answer it. I digress, but we are effectively asking that when we say "what would you like to be..."
Goal-setting is a process by which we choose our intended result, decide what we want to achieve in the longer-term AND determine HOW we are going to attain the goal (i.e., the strategy). Therein lies the problem for many people in regard to goal-setting... the process necessarily includes the strategy to achieve the goal. When relatives with kind intentions ask "what do you want to be..." the strategy they advise to achieve whatever you said Akiem Hicks Hoodie , invariably refers back to the need to study hard, be a good child, don't answer back and above all... "eat your greens!" As you get older, the advice may become more specific and even, more useful. You begin to discover which areas of knowledge and skill you most enjoy and are better equipped to clarify your personal goal as you become increasingly aware of what is important to you. Goal-setting for your career Walter Payton Hoodie , life and business is strongly advocated and endorsed in hundreds of books and papers and articles. Most emphasise the importance of writing your goals down as part of the goal-setting process.
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