Why Traditional Goal Setting Doesn't Work

Written by Arina Nikitina


If you have a $100.000.000 inrepparttar bank, drive new Lexus, look like a movie star and have a perfect health save yourself some time and do not read this article. This article is for people, who don't have all these things, but are planning on changing that slight inconvenience.

So how do you change it?

Every January millions and millions of people decide to start better and healthier life. We plan to change so many things and set so many goals. "I will exercise at least three times a week", "I will spend more time with my family", "I will find a better job", "I will stop smoking"repparttar 128870 list goes on and on.

Now if you know anything about goal setting, you'll know thatrepparttar 128871 first thing you have to do is to write down your goals on a piece of paper. Then you have to decide step-by-step how you are going to achieve those goals and form a plan of action as detailed as possible. All you have to do just followrepparttar 128872 plan.

That's a great theory, which hardly happens in reality. In reality your enthusiasm and concentration lasts a couple of weeks and than everyday routine gets to you. You skip an exercise here, get frustrated and smoke a cigarette there, or start jumping from one goal to another and atrepparttar 128873 end ofrepparttar 128874 year nothing ever gets done or achieved.

Why this theory alone doesn't work.

1. We often have so many goals it is hard to know where to start and how to proceed 2. We continually jump at different goals and as a result nothing gets done 3. It is hard to remember allrepparttar 128875 goals 4. Enthusiasm and excitement wears off 5. We don't have enough time 6. We don't have enough will power to follow through

Patience: A Better Way

Written by Maureen Killoran


I believe it! We receiverepparttar lessons we need to learn . . . and we keep receiving /em until we get it at least half-way right. At least, it seemed this way to me recently, when a trip from North Carolina to Oregon took a total of 50+ hours travel time, there and back. The smart aleck mantra, “Got time to spare? Go by air!” was in my mind as everything that COULD go wrong DID . . . equipment malfunction . . . fog . . . ice . . . crew change . . . lost luggage . . . extended holding patterns . . . emergency rates at an airport hotel . . . except . . .

Except that, inrepparttar 128865 end, we DID arrive safely at our destinations. Airline personnel were 100% courteous and friendly. A Travelers’ Aid volunteer pointed us to good-quality food and relatively comfortable chairs for our 12 hours in San Francisco. (Hint: Tryrepparttar 128866 sushi inrepparttar 128867 International Terminal!)

Patience is a virtue, one hard to come by in a world that counts time in nanoseconds. From soundbites to microwaves, we expect life to come in user-friendly format, and we’re quick to take it personally when it doesn’t.

DID YOU KNOW:

  • The average doctor’s visit lasts 8 minutes.
  • Some fast food restaurants promise lunch in 90 seconds or it’s free.
  • The optimum height of a highrise is measured by people’s maximum reported toleration of an elevator ride -- 15 seconds.
  • Most people spend less than 50 seconds brushing their teeth; most people think they spend 3 minutes each time!

And onrepparttar 128868 other side:

  • Customer Service is rapidly becoming one of this country’s most stressful job areas. Why? Because, after an average wait of 20 minutes on hold, customers are taking their stress out onrepparttar 128869 human being who takes their call.



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