5 Reasons Setting Goals Is Important
1. Goals Give You Focus
Without a goal, your efforts can become unconnected and often confusing.
It allows you to zero in on each day’s tasks with laser precision, weeding out wasted effort, and idle movement.
2.Measure Progress
Being able to keep track of your progress toward achieving a goal is only possible if you set one in the first place.
Being able to measure progress is extremely rewarding and will help you maintain focus, keep your head held high and your energy up. It will also keep you from getting down.
Sometimes, when working towards success, it’s easy to become discouraged because you don’t feel you have “arrived” yet.
However, when you measure progress while working towards a specific goal, you will be able to see that though you might not be where you are wanting to get, you have made movements in the right direction and are a lot better off than where you started.
3. Motivated
It’s easy to put off work until tomorrow when there is no goal on the line.
For example, let’s consider the life of an athlete. If they have to get in shape for say an NFL combine, you better believe they are going to be working out each and every day, whether they feel good or not, whether they are sore or not, whether they are tired or not, whether they want to or not, because they have a goal.
They have a destination.
Their desire to achieve their goal keeps them in the gym when they would much rather skip.
In much the same way, having a goal will keep you motivated!
4. Even More
When you set a goal and reach it, it gives you the taste of victory. You will want to taste that again.
What does that mean? You push yourself towards the next rung of the ladder, challenge yourself to move past another ceiling, you achieve even more.
Working towards meeting and surprising goals help you achieve way more than you ever thought possible.
5. Goals Help You Determine What You Want In Life
The act of setting goals forces you to contemplate what you truly want out of life.
What is the level of success you want to achieve? What is the income level you want to have? What does your life of ease look like? What about your dream home? What do you need income-wise to achieve your dreams?
Once you set this end goal, you then break your desires down into attainable, measurable goals.
These goals keep you motivated, helping you avoid procrastination, and keeping you laser-focused on achieving your dreams. It is, therefore, the act of setting, achieving, and surpassing goals that make living your best life possible.
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