Most people fail in those fields in which they try their best. As a result, achieving your ultimate, no-limits ideal brings you no closer to your goal. Rather than striving to reach an endless time limit, you must recognize the limitations of the present moment and work around them to achieve what you would like. The aim of goal setting is to learn to manage one's time in order to achieve something that you want in the present, and not to strive to reach an endless time limit.
With Goal setting you can develop a sense of control over the future. It means you have a strategy to bring forth your vision of your future. And when you have this solid understanding of your goals, it gives you the confidence to go out and tackle this future, should you have a strong enough desire for success. Having clear goals and preventing burn out are powerful tools to both boost your confidence and bring you closer to that unique, impossible dream you have in your heart.
If you only have time to pick the 1-5 things you want to achieve when your time is in short supply, and only do the 4 actions required to achieve each of these goals, you'll have a hard time getting started. If you have to work towards 20 goals or more each week, then you'll inevitably make some mistakes along the way. The goal setting process creates realistic expectations that help you with this process, but it doesn't make the process any less difficult.
Like anything worthwhile, some goals will simply be easier to reach than others. However, for most people, setting goals that will directly affect their day-to-day lives, such as volunteering, making a career change, or retiring early, are going to be more easy to accomplish. Setting a huge goal like quitting your job would probably be a dream come true for most people. However, for you to reach this goal you need to first have the discipline to stay on the job. After all, quitting your job is something many of us can't afford to do.
Setting this goal will not be easy, and the struggle of setting that goal will be particularly difficult. But it is the beginning of the journey. It is a step toward living the life of your dreams, and it is a step that will allow you to keep on working hard to reach those goals. Of course, it is just as important to recognize the conditions that prevent us from achieving this ideal future. To do this, it is essential to acknowledge your unmet potential. This is where goal setting and personal development start to work together. It helps you recognize your unmet potential, and learn how to harness it.
In many ways, goal setting is more effective than anything else we can try. The process of developing a plan to be successful, and to attain the goals that we want, can be deep and profound. But the process of getting this goal done, and achieving the outcome we want, is often made a lot more difficult by barriers like money, technology, constraints, biases and additional factors. Being a success story also relies on many aspects of personal character. Not being afraid to fail is key. Often failure is the only way to succeed.
