When is the best time to set goals?

When is the best time to set goals?

Have you asked yourself if your goals are good enough or if you have set too many goals for yourself? I believe whatever we do and wherever we may be, we always have goals that we want to reach. Whether we deem them good enough or not is another story, only we can decide what is good enough for us. We aim to reach our goal because they will somehow make us better people and better yet, place us in a much better position. Do you deem setting goals important? What do your goals mean to you? Have you heard anybody utter this “Why I think goal-setting is a waste of time for most people”?

What does setting goals mean to you?

We live in a constantly changing world, more so now with COVID being a challenge to everyone in the world. The world has completely changed from the way it was and chances are, we will not go back to how things were. Thus, making business plans, personal goals, life goals, career goals, and any other goal that we set at the begging of the previous year left to be altered and for some people, these goals may seem quite a bit challenging to attain. Despite the constant changes that we are seeing with our very own eyes, goal setting remains the one thing we do, intentionally or unintentionally. Have you set your 2021 goals yet? Is intentionally setting goals important to you? Are you aware of the goals that you have set unintentionally? Why I think goal-setting is a waste of time for most people?

When the year started, we sat as a team and discussed the things that we want to achieve and reach in 2021, and most of the goals might seem impossible to reach considering the time in which we find ourselves living. I have had to sit myself down post our strategy session and ask myself how far our organizational goals were from my personal goals. What was most important for me was and still is, is alignment. I never want to find myself out of balance. Are your goals aligned with your destiny? Are your goals aligned with all that you believe yourself to be?

Decisions

Here I am writing this article on the 19th January 2021 wondering if it isn’t too late for me to start writing a series on goal setting, and I could easily give up on the goal-setting series and write about something else but I thought to myself, “When is it the best time to set goals?”. When do we get to the point in our lives and think, it is too late for me to plan, to set goals, to dream again? I guess we both know that I decided to continue with the goal-setting series.

Reflections

Don’t you think when we think we are too late to do something, that could be the best time to do it? Have you set goals for yourself? Are your goals in black and white or did you just make a mental note? How important is goal setting for you? Write does your goals (short or long term), and write how you feel about them as you write them.

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