Goal Setting: Essentials 1
Hi. Good morning and welcome to Leading Right. My name is Abiodun Fijabi.
This week we are going to be looking at some essentials of Goal setting. You might think we are belabouring this issue but there is hardly any other way you can achieve that great dream in your heart without a successful goals programme.
First, your goals must stem from your vision. Accomplishing a vision is the very reason for a goals programme. If you do not know where you are heading, you stand no chance of knowing how to get there. Goals are the decisive and practical steps we take to our vision. Perhaps the real reason you do not set goals is because you do not possess a vision. Vision is a vivid mental image of your future. It is what you believe you have been created for. It is the real reason for your existence. Did I hear you swear no one in his right senses would live without a clear understanding of what he is here for? You are dead wrong. Majority of humanity has no clue as to their mission here on earth. They live each day as it comes, responding to the day-to-day needs as the circumstances of life dictate. They are reactive and not proactive.
Such visionless people have no business with goals or goal-setting. It is too painstaking for them. Too rigorous. Too time consuming. Too complex. They prefer to just swim in the calm ocean of survival instead of the troubled sea of real living. But fulfilment is only found in real living. And real living is like a pearl; you do not cast such treasure before the swine of lack of vision.
Dear listener, you will continue to underestimate the importance of goals as long as you are yet to crystallize your life vision in your mind. Remember you have no business setting goals without the backing of a strong vision to which you are passionately committed.
Second, your goals must be predicated on your behaviour rather than on your expectations from others. If you set a goal to become a better husband if your wife changes her nagging behaviour, you are setting an ineffective goal. The same is true if you plan to read more books once you are transferred to a new position. The possibility exists your wife may not stop nagging and the expected transfer may not materialize. In the event of such possibilities, your goals become ineffective. The truth is that you are only in control of your own behaviour and not that of anyone else. To predicate your goal on behaviours you do not have control over is like chasing a shadow. Since no man has ever caught up with a shadow, you may be taking an endless journey.
Be determined to do it right. Let your goal arise from your vision and predicate your goals on your behaviour and not on others.
This week we are going to be looking at some essentials of Goal setting. You might think we are belabouring this issue but there is hardly any other way you can achieve that great dream in your heart without a successful goals programme.
First, your goals must stem from your vision. Accomplishing a vision is the very reason for a goals programme. If you do not know where you are heading, you stand no chance of knowing how to get there. Goals are the decisive and practical steps we take to our vision. Perhaps the real reason you do not set goals is because you do not possess a vision. Vision is a vivid mental image of your future. It is what you believe you have been created for. It is the real reason for your existence. Did I hear you swear no one in his right senses would live without a clear understanding of what he is here for? You are dead wrong. Majority of humanity has no clue as to their mission here on earth. They live each day as it comes, responding to the day-to-day needs as the circumstances of life dictate. They are reactive and not proactive.
Such visionless people have no business with goals or goal-setting. It is too painstaking for them. Too rigorous. Too time consuming. Too complex. They prefer to just swim in the calm ocean of survival instead of the troubled sea of real living. But fulfilment is only found in real living. And real living is like a pearl; you do not cast such treasure before the swine of lack of vision.
Dear listener, you will continue to underestimate the importance of goals as long as you are yet to crystallize your life vision in your mind. Remember you have no business setting goals without the backing of a strong vision to which you are passionately committed.
Second, your goals must be predicated on your behaviour rather than on your expectations from others. If you set a goal to become a better husband if your wife changes her nagging behaviour, you are setting an ineffective goal. The same is true if you plan to read more books once you are transferred to a new position. The possibility exists your wife may not stop nagging and the expected transfer may not materialize. In the event of such possibilities, your goals become ineffective. The truth is that you are only in control of your own behaviour and not that of anyone else. To predicate your goal on behaviours you do not have control over is like chasing a shadow. Since no man has ever caught up with a shadow, you may be taking an endless journey.
Be determined to do it right. Let your goal arise from your vision and predicate your goals on your behaviour and not on others.
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