Setting Your Goals
By Anne Watson
The way to achieve the best results is to have a clearly articulated goal. When you set off in the car or train, heading off for a destination, you usually know where you want to end up.
You might not have every detail of the route mapped out but you do know where you want to be when the journey ends. In career terms you need to have that clarity about what you want and nothing will divert you from this bigger picture.
Once you have set a serious goal, you can then set the milestones for getting there. Make sure that the formulation of your goal is positive and that it is moving you towards what you aspire to, rather than shifting away from something that you don't want, that you feel negatively about or something that you fear. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you get there? If you just keep following the path, you may wake up one day aged fifty and realize that you are not doing what you wanted and time has slipped by.
The way to achieve the best results is to have a clearly articulated goal. When you set off in the car or train, heading off for a destination, you usually know where you want to end up.
You might not have every detail of the route mapped out but you do know where you want to be when the journey ends. In career terms you need to have that clarity about what you want and nothing will divert you from this bigger picture.
Once you have set a serious goal, you can then set the milestones for getting there. Make sure that the formulation of your goal is positive and that it is moving you towards what you aspire to, rather than shifting away from something that you don't want, that you feel negatively about or something that you fear. If you don't know where you are going, how will you know when you get there? If you just keep following the path, you may wake up one day aged fifty and realize that you are not doing what you wanted and time has slipped by.