Problem With Goals

There are problems with the objectives. Suggesting that heresy to many.

Setting goals is an important concept in a speech to the success that some come to see it as sacred.

Goals are good, but there are some disadvantages often ignored. Technology is good but can be used for bad. The food is good, but eating too much, even the finest ingredients, and you'll have problems. Once you know the risks, you deal with them.

Just as Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living, unexamined use of goals can prevent us from achieving the success we want.

Let's start with the view of the positive aspects of the objectives. They give us something to aim for. Assuming that what we have to apply for striking, so good. The objectives of the focus and structure of business and life. They allow us to benchmark progress or regress, and increase the chances of achieving success on purpose than by accident.

Goals should lead us, but they would never have to control us. This is one potential problem with the objectives. It is possible to go from goal-oriented to obsessed. Instead of controlling your goals, our goals are to control us. When we become fixated, we risk paying too much to achieve the goal, or even lose sight of the reason behind the goal.

One advantage of goal-setting is that we have become in the process, whether or not we achieve the goal. I would say that we often learn more failed attempts than from success.

I believe goals can and sometimes should be developed. Although I am not an advocate of purposeless activity, I believe, as the old saying goes, fortune favors the momentum. I think it's better to be splashing around in the ocean than sitting on the beach and bath planning.

Many of the best things that happened in my life have evolved. I've always been goal oriented, but the goal never possessed. In several instances where I wanted to aim too, I found myself sad and disgusted when I reach it. Oddly, when I relaxed my grip on this kind of goal, I have often achieved at a better time later. And I did not achieve the goals are often found to be far less important than what I imagined.

Another problem with goals is that they do not really motivate us. The purpose of aspiration is what drives us, the motivation is the reason for the goal.

I could give you a goal to earn a million dollars in the next 12 months, and she would have little power in your life, unless you have a compelling reason to do so.

However, if you had a son or daughter that is required for life-saving medical treatment not covered by insurance that cost a million dollars, that would suddenly and surely be motivated to achieve that goal.

We must be sure that the reasons for setting goals were enough to motivate us. The reasons resulting in the completion of goals.

Can interfere with the objectives?

Consider this: What happens if you achieve your goals for the year to the middle of this year? What do you do for the rest of the year? There is something about the security objectives achieved and the human nature that causes you to relax a bit and lift the accelerator performance. In this funny way, the goals may limit our success: we stop at achieving the goal without achieving our true potential.

If you do not set them high enough, we've accomplished easily and quickly. As a result, we lack achieve more and learn through the process.

Of course, if you set the goal too high, you will be demoralized. When you realize your goal is unrealistic and unattainable, will simply stop trying. The hardest part of setting goals is to extend the availability of balancing.

One way to avoid a let-down goals realized too soon or too easily at the same time continue their potential, while after your goals. Instead of just wondering how good you become, ask yourself how well you can be.

And if you get audacious aspirations, that you're not quite sure that you are able to achieve, then you have some short term goals that will give you a quick and consistent victories. These smaller goals will help build momentum to go after big, daring himself.

Like any good tool that is used well, goals and goal-setting can enrich your personal and professional life. But the process is not perfect and the potential problems that I mentioned can help you to avoid the disadvantages and make better use of how to use goals in your life.

Mark Sanborn, CSP, CPAE is President of Sanborn & Associates, Inc. iDEA studio for leadership development. He is an award-winning speaker and bestselling author of "Fred Factor: How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary extraordinary," "You do not have title to be a Leader: How Anyone anywhere can make a positive difference 'and' The Encore performance . In order to achieve outstanding performance in everything you do "His book," Up, down and sideways: How to Succeed When times are good, bad, or between "published October 2011.