Oct 27 2008
Goal Setting For Skeptics: Why You Should Risk Dweebhood with Written Goals
It’s hard to force yourself to sit down and write down your goals. Doing this means you actually have to THINK about them and face the hard facts about your current efforts (or lack thereof) to reach them. It also means that you have to carve-out the time to do this in a schedule that seems way too busy for this type of exercise. But the only thing harder than writing down your goals is trying to achieve them without writing them down.
You need a plan to build a house. To build a life, it is even more important to have a plan or goal.
-Zig Ziglar
The following post at Lifehacker discusses this, centering around the following points:
- Goals mean you’re trying to be better
- Writing things down makes them happen
- Written goals make time for big thinking upfront
- Written goals give you hyper-focus and clarity
- Written goals make it easy to cut the crap
- Written goals prepare you for the best and the worst
