Caren's comment appeared in my blog trackbacks, so I popped in to read Erin's blog. Great post Erin! My own experience with written goals is this: When I worked with a coach several years ago, he was meticulous (and rather demanding) when it came to written goals. I learned that my fear of writing down goals was mostly "what if I don't meet these goals? then I'll be embarrassed!" My coach made me write them anyway. So, in Feb, I had written down a goal of having 12 new songs done by August. When August came around, I had written nine songs.
I was still really happy with that because the goal itself kept me going. And I don't think I would've even gotten those nine done had I not written it down. My coach's take on it was... "If you don't reach the goal entirely, you re-write the goal. But make sure there's a deadline and a number, so that you have something concrete to reach for." (And of course, one could argue that the LoA was at work in my fear of not actually reaching the goal. I am working on this end of things now!)  |