The document outlines the top 10 mistakes people make when defining goals: 1) Not having a specific plan to achieve goals, 2) Forgetting goals due to daily tasks, 3) Having too many goals to prioritize, 4) Goals being too ambitious with no clear starting point, 5) Not regularly measuring progress, 6) Giving up instead of finding alternative paths, 7) Not reviewing goals when circumstances change, 8) Not celebrating achievements, 9) Choosing goals to please others instead of oneself, and 10) Not setting any goals. It then promotes using OKRs to avoid these mistakes and provides a discount link for an OKR course.
3. 2
You define goals,
keep them in your mind for a couple of days,
until the daily grind eliminates them –
and nothing get‘s done.
4. 3
There are sooo many goals, you can‘t decide
which to prioritize and eventually don‘t pick any.
5. 4
The goals seem to be too ambitious
and you don‘t know where to start.
Therefore, you don‘t start at all.
6. 5
The progress you made on your path to
your goal is not measured at all or very
rarely (once/year).
7. 6
After a few months you think that you are not
making any progress, you get frustrated and
give up – instead of looking for another path.
8. 7
The goals are written in stone, even if the
circumstances change massively.
There is no review, if the goals are still achievable,
and there is no learning from the past.
9. 8
Achieving a goal is seen as a matter of
course and gets neither noticed nor
celebrated as a success.
10. 9
The goals are meaningless to you,
because you got instructed to achieve them,
or you chose them to please or impress others.
12. The 10 Biggest Mistakes When Defining Goals
1. You have goals – but no specific plan, how to get there.
2. You define goals, keep them in your mind for a couple of days, until the daily grind eliminates them – and
nothing get‘s done.
3. There are sooo many goals, you can‘t decide which to prioritize and eventually don‘t pick any.
4. The goals seem to be too ambitious and you don‘t know where to start.
Therefore, you don‘t start at all.
5. The progress you made on your path to your goal is not measured at all or very rarely (once/year).
6. After a few months you think that you are not making any progress, you get frustrated and give up –
instead of looking for another path.
7. The goals are written in stone, even if the circumstances change massively.
There is no review, if the goals are still achievable, and there is no learning from the past.
8. Achieving a goal is seen as a matter of course and gets neither noticed nor celebrated as a success.
9. The goals are meaningless to you, because you got instructed to achieve them, or you chose them to
please or impress others.
10. You don‘t set any goals at all.
13. Avoid these top 10 mistakes by using OKRs
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Editor's Notes
Defining goals the right way and working on them is a great thing to do.
Very often in life it already we can increase our chances of success by avoiding common mistakes. So, let‘s look at the ten most common mistakes when defining goals
And here again the overview of the 10 biggest mistakes when defining and working on goals.
I‘m sure you‘ve seen some of them, and might even have made one of them.
Let‘s together avoid those mistakes and if we then use OKRs for our goals, you‘ll be unstoppable!