Tag: Performance

Don’t Set Your Goals Too High

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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‘Setting goals too high and hoping to ‘get close’ is one of the most damaging things you can do to your performance.’- Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow

If you want to achieve success in your life, you need a powerful goal. It is important to have one or two. But setting your goals too high is not going to help you. Instead, it is going to demotivate you.

Goals are motivators, not demotivators. If your goals are not encouraging you, if your goals are not motivating you, then you need new goals. Maybe the ones you have right now are too high for you. If they are too high, you won’t be able to make them happen. And when they are too low, you won’t learn anything from them.

‘If you want to be successful, if you want to achieve greatness in your life, do not set your goals too high.’

The best thing to do is to set goals you can achieve, but not too low. And not too high. Because you need them.

Without a goal, you are not going to achieve success. You won’t even know what is going on in your life. You won’t even know where you are, what you are doing, and where you are going.

Remember, your goal is your guide. If you want to get to the next level in your life, you need a new goal. Do not be scared to start again.

If the goal you have right now is not working, then set a new one. Do not forget that life is about growth. If you do not have a goal, if you do not have something to fight for, then how are you going to grow?

Successful People Are Good At These Things

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Success is more than just having money. Success is not about what you have. It is about who you are. It is about what you do. And it is about how you do what you do.

If you want to be successful, take charge of your life. Take full responsibility for your life, for your work, and for your relationships. Do not wait for others to take the lead. You take the lead. You don’t have to be perfect, but just take the lead. You will get better as you go.

Successful people are leaders. They know when to take the lead. They know when to back off. And they know when to put other people in charge of the journey.

Successful people are good at forgiving other people. They know that no one is perfect. They know that mistakes are going to happen.

Successful people are great team players. They don’t claim to know everything. Because of that, they always surround themselves with people who are smarter than them. Because they want to learn.

Successful people love networking. They love to hang out with the right people. They know where to look for other successful people. So if you want to be successful, always be around great people.