Top 5 Goal-Setting Mistakes (To Avoid)

In this week’s episode, let me share the importance of effective goal setting for achieving your dreams and goals in life by identifying the 5 common mistakes that most people often make.

Do you know that goals are the guiding stars that illuminate our journey in life? Whether personal, professional, short-term, or long-term, goals offer us that sense of purpose and direction. They serve as motivators to keep us in pursuit of excellence, growth, and success.

While aligning goals with one’s purpose might be a challenge, remember that goals necessitate traits such as discipline, determination, and commitment. So, if you want to make sure on the right track in your goal-setting, this episode is for you!

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Intro

0:53 - What is goal setting?

1:12 - How to avoid these 5 common mistakes in setting goals?

3:09 - Mistake #1: People make mistakes when they set too many goals.

6:39 - Mistake #2: People make mistakes when they don’t know their “why.”

9:43 - Mistake #3: People make mistakes when they fail to identify the habits that could get in the way.

12:52 - Mistake #4: People make mistakes when they don't keep their goals visible. 

15:42 - Mistake #5: People make mistakes when they underestimate the time

Quotations:

“Without goals, we’re waiting precious time. Our life is just going in circles… We’re squandering our potential. We’re not making time work for us. We’re wasting oour God-given potential.”

“In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”

“Goals are really critical to your humanity. It’s the way God made you.”

“Reaching goals is always about discipline and habits.”

“Vague and invisible goals produce vague and invisible results.”

“Your life moves in the direction of your most prominent thought, your most dominant thought and visual.”

Download the full transcript here.