The power of goals
Why don’t people love to set goals? When don’t people love setting goals for their lives? The reasons might really shock you. Would you enjoy your journey if you didn’t have direction? Not really right? Yes please. Goals are important to have my friend.
Goals give you hope. Goals give you faith. Goals give you courage. A person of goals is halfway there. A person of goals will reach his destination. Sometimes, without goals, life is meaningless. Life loses color and shape. Without goals, you are like a boxer boxing the air, busy missing the target. Goals give you what you must really target in life. They quantify your destination.
In today’s post, we are looking at the various shocking reasons as to why people don’t like setting goals. Why some people don’t like this idea of having goals. What are the 4 reasons that make people not to set goals? Ready, let’s go. The following are the reasons why people don’t like setting goals:
- Goals are not important
Many people don’t realize the importance of having goals. They think goals are a total waste of time. So they just drift along in life. They just live life as it comes. If you grew up or surrounded by people who don’t have goals, chances are that you won’t see the value of having of goals as well and won’t set them. Remember, your environment determines where you are going. Your associates also determine your direction and course.
- They don’t know how
People don’t have goals because they don’t know how to set them. The how is very powerful and important. If you don’t know how things are done, you will really fall behind. You have to therefore understand and know how things are done.
Many people think they have goals but all they having are wishes and dreams. Wishes won’t fulfill themselves my friend. Dreams won’t also come true on their own. There must be a mastermind called you behind them. You cannot outsource your dreams the very same way you cannot outsource your pushups.
People have fantasies and not goals. What they think are goals are really fantasies. Fantasies will remain fantasies until the real steps of making them true are taken. May all your fantasies come true.
- The fear of failure
The third reason as to why people hardly set goals is the fear of failure. Failure hurts and cripples. Failure destroys but at the end of the day, failure is the classroom of champions. Failure is the institution of champions.
Everyone has had failure experiences from time to time. Each time, they resolve to be more careful next time and avoid failure experiences in the future. If you avoid failure, you are avoiding growth and opportunities. Without failure, life is boring. Life tends to be more annoying without failure. Embrace failure as a powerful classroom and institution that can change the course of your entire life. Why do people don’t set goals? Let’s find out.
- The fear of rejection
Last but not least, people don’t set goals because they fear rejection. My friend in this life you will be rejected anyway. People are afraid that if they set a goal and are not successful, others will criticize or ridicule them.
This is why when you set goals, you should keep them confidential. Don’t tell anyone. Let them see by your fruits and results. Let them see by what you are achieving. This way you will be very safe. At the end of the day, what they don’t know cannot hurt you. Learn to keep things to yourself and you will make it at the end if you persist.
Conclusion
Have goals
People have direction systems in their cars but in reality they don’t have goals. Goals are very powerful my friend and they can alter the entire course of your life. Learn how to set goals. Goals give your life direction and sense of meaning.
Lacking goals in life is like walking blind. You are going but you don’t see where you are going because you do not know where you are going. It’s another thing to see and another thing to have sight. Set your goals today and you will be half way there in your journey. Ideas are worthless without practice. Feel free to tell us what you think in the comments section. Remember, it works if you work it. Till we meet again in the next post. Peace.