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Not setting goals made me accomplish only a few things over the last months. Much less than I expected.
Since I started a new job, I gave up goal setting and planning for a while. I hoped my consistency could deal with everything I had set up. But it didn’t.
I stopped trying hard enough. I found hundreds of reasons why I should give up. And I almost broke my side hustle because I didn’t have goals.
So If you want to accomplish something, goals are still a necessary step you must take. And if you don’t, you will achieve much less than you wished.
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So not setting goals could trigger surprising side effects on your performance. Your self-efficacy levels will drop. You will waste your time. And your happiness and well-being will decrease.
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Besides poor and aimless work, there are many other surprising side effects of not setting goals, like working in cycles.
You never know if your work is acceptable until you set goals. So you may repeat the same errors many times. You will stress out. And you may even give up.
But if you set S.M.A.R.T. goals, you will also control and improve your plans so they are updated and efficient. So how can you fix it?
Here are six lessons I learned from my mistakes.
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Time illusion is a thing.
When you set long-term goals, you can’t track them because you have a lot of time. But in the last moments, you realize you don’t.
But then, your deadline will approach. And you will start working again because you realize you have been delaying until the last minute. And the urge of the deadline will push you again.
In the beginning, your motivation pushes you to work with consistency. But then, you forget about your goal. Every day you will procrastinate because you have time. And you will spend weeks doing nothing.
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So you must create a feeling of urgency in your life that helps you take action daily. And you can do it in different ways:
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I am a big motivation fan. And I’ve extensively produced content about it because I believed in it.
But motivation often fails. And sometimes, you must neutralize it to work at best.
When you only use motivation, you are weak to its swings. And if something goes wrong, it could ruin your entire day. But if you become resilient, it won’t affect your tasks too much.
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So, how can you do it?
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When the end of a goal approaches, a little bit of fear helps you work faster and focus better. Under pressure, you often perform better. And for this reason, you must feel the urge at all times.
However, there is a difference between pressure and panic.
The pressure pushes you to work faster to finish before it’s too late. But you won’t even start working on your goals if you panic. You will procrastinate until it is too late. And you will fail.
And most times, it is a matter of entity — high goals trigger big fears.
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So, how can you improve?
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You are not as reliable as you would like to be. And when you set a goal, it would be better to have someone or something checking on you.
I have always benefited from a reliability system because it helps me think less about consistency and more about the work. But if someone pushes me, I am more aware of the situation. And since I don’t want to lose their time, I am more serious about my goals.
You can build many types of reliability systems. But usually, they will be part of two categories:
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Time blocking, bounding, and planning in slots all mean the same thing.
Find the perfect moment to work on your tasks.
But it is not easy to find the perfect timing. It takes a lot of analysis and repetition. And sometimes, a task you scheduled for an hour might take three if you don’t have enough experience.
Also, you must learn to respect limits and stop working when it’s time to relax. Otherwise, you might work too much. And your brain will struggle and become resistant to that task.
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But how can you learn to limit time?
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A life without a goal is purposeless.
Without goals, you start an aimless journey toward the unknown. You will work in cycles without any improvements. And you will stress about things you should have learned already.
Goals can give you clarity. They can help you focus and analyze tasks from any perspective. Therefore, you can spot the errors easier, fix them, and proceed. So never live without goals.
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Not setting goals made me accomplish only a few things over the last months. Much less than I expected.
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