This document discusses common mistakes people make when setting goals, such as setting unrealistic goals, underestimating completion times, and not reviewing progress. It provides five rules for effective goal setting: set motivating goals, make them SMART, write them down, make an action plan, and stick with the plan. Finally, it emphasizes the importance of mindset in achieving goals and quotes Stephen Covey saying your mindset influences your actions and results.
3. Goal Setting Mistakes
• Setting Unrealistic Goals
• Underestimating Completion time
• Not appreciating FAILURE
• Setting other people’s goals
• Not Reviewing progress
• Setting Negative goals
• Setting too many goals
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4. The Five Golden Rules
• Set Goals That Motivate You
• Set SMART Goals
• Set Goals in Writing
• Make an Action Plan
• Stick With It!
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5. Goals & Mindset
“When you change the way you see things, it influences what you
do and the results you get”
- Stephen Covey
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Goals are dreams with deadlines
Have you thought about what you want to be doing in five years' time?
Are you clear about what your main objective at work is at the moment? Do you know what you want to have achieved by the end of today?
If you want to succeed, you need to set goals. Without goals you lack focus and direction. Goal setting not only allows you to take control of your life's direction; it also provides you a benchmark for determining whether you are actually succeeding.
To accomplish your goals, however, you need to know how to set them. You can't simply say, "I want" and expect it to happen. Goal setting is a process that starts with careful consideration of what you want to achieve, and ends with a lot of hard work to actually do it. In between, there are some very well-defined steps that transcend the specifics of each goal. Knowing these steps will allow you to formulate goals that you can accomplish.
Setting Unrealistic – Be Imaginative & Ambitious, make sure your goal is achievable
Setting other people’s goals – don’t set goals to satisfy others
How much we achieve doesn't depend on our innate ability, character, environment, or opportunities. Rather, it depends on what we believe – about ourselves, and about what achievement really means. That's our "mindset," and learning to control and change it can have a dramatic impact on our success.
We’re all born with certain skills, but the mindsets we have toward improving our skills and character ultimately determine our success in life. A growth mindset is a perspective on life in which we find validation from internal growth rather than external rewards
Stephen Covey has made a helpful model of this stating that: “when you change the way you see things, it influences what you do and the results you get.
“Create short term goals leading to the long term one. When climbing a ladder, getting to the top of it is our long term goal, but we need to take several steps that will lead us to the top.
Nothing can get you down when you manage your mindset
“Who we become is what we take forward forever.”
We’re all born with certain skills, but the mindsets we have toward improving our skills and character ultimately determine our success in life. A growth mindset is a perspective on life in which we find validation from internal growth rather than external rewards
To start, look internally at the dialogue you have with yourself:
Do your beliefs engage and nurture you, or hold you back?
Think of how you reacted to a challenging circumstance at work. What are the facts of what happened vs. the story you’re telling yourself?
What does transformation mean for you as a leader?