Goal setting doesn't have to be boring. There are many advantages and benefits to having a set of goals to work towards. Setting goals helps trigger new behaviors, helps guides your focus and helps you sustain that momentum in life. Goals also help align your focus and promote a sense of self-mastery. In the end, you can’t manage what you don’t measure and you can’t improve upon something that you don’t properly manage. Setting goals can assist you do all of that and more.
What Is A Goal?
According to Wikipedia the exact definition of a goal is the desired result a person or a system envisions, plans and commits to achieve a private or organizational desired end-point in some sort of assumed development. many people endeavor to reach goals within a finite time by setting deadlines.
5 Reasons Why Setting Academic Goals Is Necessary For Students:
Goals Give You Focus:
Without a goal, your efforts can become disjointed and often confusing. For example, a goal takes the flight of a hummingbird, which is chaotic and erratic and focuses it much like a hawk swooping down for its prey. It allows you to zero in on each day’s tasks with laser precision, weeding out wasted effort and idle movement.
Goals Assist You 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 assist you maintain focus, keep your head held high and your energy up. it'll 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're wanting to get, you have created movements in the right direction and are a lot better off than where you started.
Goals Assist You Stay 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 need 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!
They Help You Beat Procrastination:
Procrastination is something we all battle from time-to-time, myself included. However, when you set goals in life, specific goals for what you want to achieve, it helps you understand that procrastination is dangerous. It is wasted time. it's another day you aren’t moving closer to that goal. Consider this quote from Pablo Picasso next time you are thinking of putting off that next step towards your goal and rethink your stance: “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.”
You Achieve 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 will 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. These goals keep you motivated, helping you avoid procrastination and keeping your laser-focused on achieving your dreams. It is, therefore, the act of setting, achieving and surpassing goals that make living your best life possible.
