27/08/2018
People talk about goal setting being a skill, and I have to say I agree wholeheartedly.
The skill comes in knowing how high we should set the bar with our goals. If we set it too low we will always achieve our goals, but in doing so we will never have to grow or develop.
Conversely if we set the bar too high we will continually fall short, but not in a way that we can learn and grow but so far short that we soon lose belief and motivation that we would ever achieve the goal.
The right goal should force us to grow and stretch a little bit, not to be so far out of reach that we can never get there, but equally hard enough that we have to get out of our comfort zone and become a better person in the process.
Take some time to review your goals and the projects that you’re working on. Are they challenging you enough? Do they require you to grow in order to achieve them, or are you rarely out of your comfort zone?
Remember that nothing is ever out of reach, so long as we are prepared to stretch a little