Do you set goals?
Read an interesting article over at zenhabits.net titled - ‘The best goal is no goal’
Unfortunately, it never, ever works out this neatly. You all know this. You know you need to work on an action step, and you try to keep the end goal in mind to motivate yourself. But this action step might be something you dread, and so you procrastinate. You do other work, or you check email or Facebook, or you goof off.
And so your weekly goals and monthly goals get pushed back or side-tracked, and you get discouraged because you have no discipline. And goals are too hard to achieve. So now what? Well, you review your goals and reset them. You create a new set of sub-goals and action plans. You know where you’re going, because you have goals!
I do have very high level goals (business as well as personal) that helps me make decisions and motivates me to do better. The key here is not to obsessively track and make gantt charts out of your goals but to be aware of them and work on the stuff that make you happy each day.
Does the same work for you?
