A lot of people just live their lives without setting goals, and living without goals and dreams is almost a sure way to failure.
Some see little or even no need to set goals, but goal setting is an important guide to success. The importance of goal setting cannot be overemphasized, and these reasons below underline some major importance and benefits that come with goal setting.
1. SERVES AS A GUIDE TO YOUR VISION IN LIFE
It could easily be said that anyone who doesn’t have goals in life also doesn’t have a vision, and such a person lacks a sense of direction; such a person would easily be swayed by the things of life and have little or no idea on what to do.
Goals provide that sense of direction; it serves as a guide and provides that vision in life.
2. IT BRINGS MOTIVATION
Merely writing your goals down can serve as a means of motivation to working towards your goals, that’s why it’s advised to always write your goals down.
Motivation is an important aspect of life; it’s one that provides that drive and energy to keep going forward. There is hardly a great thing that can be done without motivation.
3. HELPS OVERCOME PROCRASTINATION
Procrastination they say is a lazy man’s disease, and it’s one disease that could cripple the growth or success of one’s life.
Goal setting brings that sense of accountability, and when you have that sense of accountability, you are less likely to procrastinate.
4. GIVES YOU FOCUS
When you have a guide on what you are doing and where you are going, you tend to be more focused. However, when you lack direction and you are easily swayed from left to right, you would easily lose focus.
Having focus is an important key to being successful.
5. MEANS TO MEASURE PROGRESS
Having a sense of direction in life would make it easier for you to measure your progress. However, when you lack direction and plan and have no ambitions, you cannot measure your progress; a lack of goals leaves you without a barometer to measure success.
6. GOALS ENSURES YOU BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
Goal setting is powerful, and it gives you that self-belief and confidence that you can achieve anything you want. When you have that belief in yourself then there would be nothing stopping you.
Goal setting ensures you to be the best you can be; it ensures you to give your all and above all, it acts as a drive to success.
Do you set goals for yourself? Do you believe in goal setting or you just live your life as it comes?
Jake