Thought: On setting achievable goals being a bad concept • 06.29.08
Around December or January of every year, I notice many people talking about the goals1 they wish to accomplish for the coming year or the goals they wanted to accomplish for the ending year. Many people set goals that are good for their health, like losing weight, or exercising to remain slim. Many other people set financial goals, like earning money, earning more money, or paying off debt. Still, many other people have different kinds of goals that they try to coordinate around the concept of a 365-days goal period.
One thing I would like to propose to you is to start thinking of setting up goals, instead of planning to set up achievable goals. Your goals can be sorted out in ways other than the achievable and non-achievable category. You can look at a goal and think “Can this goal be pursued easily using the exact tools, resources and character that I have at my disposal at this very moment?” That way, goals which can be achieved easily can also exist along side the goals which cannot be achieved easily. Thus, your goals will exist based on what you want your goals to be and the difficulty level of their completion or progress, instead of your goals existing based on whether or not you think they can be achieved.
5 reasons setting achievable goals is a bad stereotypical trend
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- No, not soccer goals. Soccer goals and saving soccer goals help you in different ways, like making you stop the goal and start the pain. [↩]
- ”The Challenge Facer!!“ [↩]
- I myself have talked about goals planning before, but I have also noticed that I have rarely, or ever, explicitly expressed the details of my yearly plans in public. There is a reason for that: I do not end up having goals based on a year. Instead, I have goals for life, both short term to long term, which keep changing or modifying or updating dynamically every moment of the day, or whenever I think about them or whenever I do something about them, when it comes to realizing as to how or what can be done for me to change to get that goal or to get similar results as the goal in mind. My goals rarely change in terms of being eliminated - a few new goals keep getting added from time to time, while many goals have been with me since childhood. Without goals or efforts towards goals, which are in my view the desire and the actual action to experience an idea or a concept or a dream, life can be very robotic or extremely unsatisfying for me. [↩]
- I stand against the idea of doing something because the society does it. Think emotionally, think rationally, think from scratch, and decide what you want to do: that is what I tell myself all the time. [↩]
