For many years in my life I?ve set goals for myself. ?These goals have been as small as ?ace a spelling test? and as big as ?win a world championship?. ?I?ve set goals, professionally, athletically, academically, physically, mentally, financially, spiritually, and emotionally. ?I?ve been on teams with goals and in relationships with goals. ?On top of that I?ve helped many others with their goals. In order for goals to truly be effective they need to be S.M.A.R.T. goals. ?You name it I?ve probably done it and probably written about it.
The good thing about goals, if you?re driven and you?re motivated by the ?goal? then you?ll like succeed at achieving the goal.
The bad thing about goals, if you?re driven and you?re motivated by the ?goal? then you?ll like succeed at achieving the goal.
Yeah I know, I just stated the exact same thing twice except replaced good with bad. ?The reason I did that is because way too many people, myself included, set goals that are not necessarily in the direction or path that they should be going. ?Unfortunately people will set goals in areas like the following -?Relationships, Family, Friends,?Business/Money/Financial, Professional/Career, Job,?Health/Wellness, Fitness, Mind/Body/Spirit,?Faith/Contribution,?Fun,?Growth, and Personal Development. ?However, setting goals in so many areas can lead a person astray from the overall direction they want to be heading in. ?Even more, the person can get so focused on the goal, they forget about the journey?and when they achieve the goal they don?t know what to do with themselves.
Joshua Fields Milburn, of the Minimalists, wrote a great blog post about direction. ?His post wrote about similar things that I?ve written about above and said many of the same things in different words. ?What I really liked was how he explained the difference between habits, goals and direction.
A direction is where you are going. ?For example, a few years ago Tanya and I stated that we wanted to live in the mountains near the water. ?We didn?t know what that actually looked like, but we made choices to go in that direction when we moved to North Vancouver.
A goal is a method to get you where you?re going. ?As long as you know your direction, goals can be useful to get you where you want. For example, in order to move to the mountains near the water I needed to quit my job in Edmonton. ?The goal was set and achieved. Unfortunately without knowing your direction many of us set goals that don?t align with our direction and thus lead us along the wrong path. ?Setting goals is only valuable when you are very clear on your direction. ?However, when you?re clear on your direction, your habits may be more important than any goals.
A habit is something you do all the time. ?Your habits define who you are and how you?re going to be along your journey in your chosen direction. ?Your habits can include everything from how you wake up to how you answer emails. ?Habits are hard to create and break. ?I?ve read that both can take approximately 21 days though there are others that dispute this. ?The real point is that it takes days or possibly months to change, create, break a habit but it is possible and typically you can only do one at a time. ?So if you want to change many habits, it will take some time.
Once you?re habits are to your liking and you?re making decisions daily that are helping you head in the direction you want to be then goals some times fall off the table. ?Goals aren?t always necessary once you?re on the path you want to be and moving along it in the way you?re most comfortable.
Source: http://www.seanverret.com/1-recognizingvulnerabilties/goals-are-they-good-or-bad/
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