Tag: Success

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?

Always Evaluate Yourself In A Productive Way

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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‘If you aren’t evaluating yourself in a productive way, the loses and ‘failures’ erode your self-confidence. When you aren’t as confident, you can’t perform as well and you fail more often– starting a vicious cycle.’- Dr. Jason Selk and Tom Bartow

If you don’t have the courage to ask for feedback, you won’t know how well you are doing. So if you want to know where you stand, how well you are doing, whether you are moving forward or backward, whether you are growing or dying, whether you are progressing or stagnating, you must ask other people to evaluate you.

Do not ask your friends. Ask people you don’t know, who are not really your friends. Or if you have a sincere friend, then you can ask him or her to tell you how he or she thinks you are doing. If not, you are just going to be ‘flying blind.’ You won’t know what is going on in your life. And that is not good.

If you want to be successful, please do not fly blind, ask questions.