The Power of Goals
Goals should not be like New Year resolutions that are made to be forgotten. And remember that a goal can be small. It can be simple, and it can be rather difficult to realize, by any standards. Whether you have decided to clean the attic today or want to get through to Harvard Business School, you have to set your mind. There is a focus here, that of the time involved. If you tend to procrastinate, you will have to tell yourself that you must shrug off the habit of postponing and rescheduling and resetting and curtailing your goals.
A time frame is the one parameter which should not be flexible. When you set a time limit for your goals, stick to it. The time you thought you should achieve a task or a long-term goal in, should be like a strait jacket that allows no movement. Do not make it an ever-expanding elastic bag. And be sensible in your goals. That is because goals can be too rigid. Your goals should not be unattainable. Example? You’re wanting to have a figure like J Lo in three months. That is absurd. Your goals should reflect your ideas as they evolve in life and should work towards creating a new you. Did you not want to be better and stronger and sharper than your present you?
Set your goals according to your abilities and never set too many goals. You may aim to achieve multiple goals within the same period, but it may be humanly impossible. We have equated our systems with a mechanism, but you do know that our mechanism is efficient yet exhaustible. You will be exhausted; your energies and resources will be strained, and the end result will be a major disappointment because you could not get near the top of that impossible mountain. Your sack of achievements remains an empty bag. Heard of the saying ‘Jack of all trades, yet master of none?’ If you don’t want your goal achievement line to be plotted alongside this proverb in children’s schoolbooks, then direct your mind to a smaller number of doable, final destinations.
