4 WAYS THAT GOAL SETTING AFFECTS OUTCOMES
4 WAYS THAT GOAL SETTING AFFECTS OUTCOMES
- Choice: Goals separate beneficial choices from counter-productive choices. I.E. Consuming alcohol on the night previous to a 10K run is NOT going to help with the run, and so this choice is easier to make NOT to drink the alcohol.
- Effort: If you are truly focussed on a particular goal, you will find that the distractions in life become a sort of white noise, allowing you to put more time and energy into the goal you are accomplishing.
- Persistence: Goals provide known “outcomes”. Knowing an outcome willaddextra drive to sometimes arduous tasks leading to ones goal.
- Cognition: Setting Goals allows you to plan and then make changes in yourself you may not otherwise be compelled to make.
As you can see,goal settingclearly effects the outcome of any given situation. Regardless of how complicated or intricate a particular goal may be.
It’s a common mistake to only applygoal setting”systems” to task or objectives that are monumental… such as promotions or big weight loss. Actually, these “systems” of goal settingare better applied to menial task. I’ll explain.
If you want a big promotion, and you are really cranking hard on the job performance while at work, you are really only addressing one half of the goal. Your chances of promotion will improve, but not as much as they can. If you hit what I call the “peripheral” goals as well, your chances for this promotion will double or even triple. Peripheral goals for your promotion goal might include: fitness,diet, appearance, education, etc… When you hit all of the peripherals hard, you not only increase your job performance, you increase the impact you have on co-workers and the atmosphere in general at work.
This same kind of logic applies to setting goals of love or passion. A main goal is only as strong as it’s peripheral goals. Don’t neglect the little goals!
One more association: You most likely have heard that the game of football is a game of inches. Does that sound familiar? Well, goal setting and success is the same, but I might say that rather than being a game of “Inches”, goal setting is a game of “moments”.
Be aware of ALL of the moments that make up your life, for not one is less important than another. Fill in the empty spaces with positive activities or input.
Think of the time you spend doing anything, and on any given day, like this… every moment in your life is “practice”. You are practicing, literally, the way that you will live with every action or inaction you take. Are you watching t.v. a lot? If the answer is “yes”, than you are practicing watching t.v. a lot. Getting up early to run? Than you are practicing getting up early and running!
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Author’s Bio:
Alan Currens is the creator of the “Time Mapping” and “Unbound & Limitless” Systems. With the help of my goal setting and time management systems I was able to run 2,010 miles in the year 2,010, and that was among many other goals in life that were occurring simultaneously.
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