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Should you set goals, and how do you actually achieve them?
It’s all too easy for them to fall by the wayside
I’ve lost count of all the goals I’ve set in my lifetime. And I would love to be able to say I’ve achieved them all. Sadly, that just isn’t true. There have been so many that have fallen by the wayside when life simply got in the way.
In fact, is there a case for not having goals at all?
Some people say all you need are intentions; goals are too rigid and are far more likely to self-destruct as we naturally lose interest. Most people I know do not set goals, but then neither do they achieve anything. On balance, the people who goal-set achieve the most in life, I have observed.
Take a friend of mine. After college, he started working as a furniture remover. But he had ambitions to work in IT and make good money as a freelancer. He was an avid self-help enthusiast and set many goals for himself, one of which was to take the accreditation path to become a Cisco networking engineer. It took many years, but now he earns big money as a CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) freelancer in Switzerland.
He would never have achieved such a massive change to his work-life and finances without big goals. Lots of goals. So they worked for him. And they can work for…
