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Why traditional goal setting sucks and what to do instead
*This podcast has been renamed to The Conditioning Culprit! Just an FYI that the intro reflects the previous name.
Do you ever reach goals, feel flat and immediately start planning your next goal? Do the same goals go on and fall off your list in an endless, frustrating cycle?
If so, you're in the right place. Traditional goal-setting gets a lot of things wrong. This can be really confusing if you're a driven, Type A personality who's absolutely nailed the process of setting a goal and reaching it, because it can be hard to put your finger on *why* it's not satisfying or fulfilling, and why you have to keep dangling the next carrot in front of yourself in pursuit of that elusive element of satisfaction.
The way we're taught to pursue goals is very linear. You come up with your goal, the specific outcome you have in mind, then you reverse engineer the tasks and activities that will get you to that outcome. It's checklist oriented. Check the tasks of your list and boom - goal achieved. So this process works, right?
Technically, it works in that you get the outcome you had in mind. BUT, if that was all that mattered, you wouldn't be here.
What the traditional approach doesn't take into account is WHY you feel driven to achieve in the first place, HOW pursuing a given goal will impact your life, and WHAT achieving that goal will do for you.
The traditional approach is highly focused on measurable outcomes and based on a foundation that doesn't have real substance. It's no wonder then that achievement of goals can feel empty, even if you kick ass at the achievement part.
In this episode, we dive deeply into this topic and discuss:
Around the 11:30 mark, I encourage you to get out your journal and do some thought exercises to evaluate your process. Here are some prompts:
If you're looking for more prompts to think deeply on this topic and others like it, check out my book, The High Achiever's Guide!
You can find more info at makimoussavi.com
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By Maki Moussavi*This podcast has been renamed to The Conditioning Culprit! Just an FYI that the intro reflects the previous name.
Do you ever reach goals, feel flat and immediately start planning your next goal? Do the same goals go on and fall off your list in an endless, frustrating cycle?
If so, you're in the right place. Traditional goal-setting gets a lot of things wrong. This can be really confusing if you're a driven, Type A personality who's absolutely nailed the process of setting a goal and reaching it, because it can be hard to put your finger on *why* it's not satisfying or fulfilling, and why you have to keep dangling the next carrot in front of yourself in pursuit of that elusive element of satisfaction.
The way we're taught to pursue goals is very linear. You come up with your goal, the specific outcome you have in mind, then you reverse engineer the tasks and activities that will get you to that outcome. It's checklist oriented. Check the tasks of your list and boom - goal achieved. So this process works, right?
Technically, it works in that you get the outcome you had in mind. BUT, if that was all that mattered, you wouldn't be here.
What the traditional approach doesn't take into account is WHY you feel driven to achieve in the first place, HOW pursuing a given goal will impact your life, and WHAT achieving that goal will do for you.
The traditional approach is highly focused on measurable outcomes and based on a foundation that doesn't have real substance. It's no wonder then that achievement of goals can feel empty, even if you kick ass at the achievement part.
In this episode, we dive deeply into this topic and discuss:
Around the 11:30 mark, I encourage you to get out your journal and do some thought exercises to evaluate your process. Here are some prompts:
If you're looking for more prompts to think deeply on this topic and others like it, check out my book, The High Achiever's Guide!
You can find more info at makimoussavi.com