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Originally Posted by David365  Goal setting like this works for some people – but I’m sure many people don’t achieve goals despite doing all the right things. Some people don’t respond well to specific goals and deadlines.
Bottom line is many people do find great success without setting goals. But they do need commitment and passion (which isn’t the same thing). Going back to Xin's original post in this thread – Bill Gates and Will Smith could have given up without some form of inner drive and belief that this was their calling.
If clear goal setting works for you, great. Likewise goals may help to give you a loose structure that helps, even if you don’t follow the goals religiously. But I do think we should be too prescriptive of this as a technique that everyone should adopt. In my opinion the hard thing for most of us is finding a path we can pursue with commitment and passion. Setting goals to achieve things in fields we’re not willing to put the effort into is where most come unstuck. |
I'm not saying everyone should do anything. I'm simply stating that what works for me is a relatively simple, hierarchal structure of goal setting that is incremental and has a finite end. Then again, I'm an engineer, so I like things to be rather structured.
Again, though, I can't imagine a life without goals, just letting life carry where it will. Too hippie-esque by far. One needs structure of some sort, even if that goal is to make the mortgage, or to back up, get the house. Humans actually do thrive on competition, and the higher the bar you set for yourself, you find that you are actually quite more able than you may have thought you were.
As they say, if at first you don't succeed, so much for sky-diving.
