Last week Gretchen attended a course and a motivational speaker called David Hyner spoke about NOT setting SMART goals. His viewpoint is setting SMART goals just set us all up to be mediocre, average and not aiming for the best we can be.
We are taught through school and often in our training at work to set measurable, achievable and time-sensitive goals. Whenever they come up in appraisals we all roll our eyes … not this again!
So, here we are at the start of February and your January ‘must get fit’, ‘must eat well’ goals have either stuck or gone out the window. February is the start of the transition from Winter to Spring, the daffs are starting to show, the days are getting longer.
It’s the perfect time to re-evaluate and set some BIG goals. Goals that make you happy. Goals that will make your life the best it could be.
Really goals we set are only guesses. We shouldn’t put ourselves under so much pressure when planning goals. No one knows where and exactly what they will be doing in 20 years. We can’t be precise, we have to guess and just give ourselves something to aim at.
Goals can be flexible. You shouldn’t just change a goal because it’s turning out to be hard work, but if the goal no longer suits you or isn’t what you actually want to do, you should be able to change it.
Goals are your own, not your family’s, neighbour’s, Facebook’s or Instagram’s. Make them your own and work on the plan to achieve them every day.
Make your goals BIG. Forget SMART! Plan the smaller actions and steps you need to take along the way to hit that big goal, but set it high, make it big, make it scary. What’s the point in working to something that makes you mediocre?
So, get planning this weekend, set that goal and really work towards it!