I’m very confident most people reading this will have heard of SMART goals.
Even if you don’t know, or can’t remember, the specifics.
It’s the idea that when setting a goal it has to be;
– Specific
– Measurable
– Achievable
– Realistic
– Time-based
And those are five considerations that are definitely worth making when we’re looking at a goal.
But, it’s not enough.
If it was, every time someone set a goal like that, they would achieve it.
You may have encountered other goal setting techniques as well.
Possibly used them.
Do they always lead to you doing that thing?
I’m guessing probably not.
Because there’s one thing that always trumps SMART (or any other) goals.
It’s BORING.
If a goal bores us, we’re probably not going to do it.
BORING goals require willpower.
A finite resource.
That runs out.
Will power is only ever needed for something that we don’t want to do.
Goals that, at least to some degree, excite and enthuse us, are way more likely to happen.
Some of the things that you’ve done most regularly in your lifetime probably had no goal setting whatsoever behind them.
You just started doing them, enjoyed them, and carried on doing them.
The stuff that excites and generates a buzz in us is so much more easy to achieve.
Sometimes that just happens automatically.
Sometimes it requires approaching something, or viewing, it in a way to maximise that.
If going for a workout doesn’t generate a buzz in you (and it never has done in me)……..
Then what results that it brings about………
Do?
What changes will occur in your life………
What will you be able to do, do more of or do more easily………
How will you feel differently……..
Which of those things generates at least a reasonable degree of enthusiasm in you?
And, maybe, while you’re at it, look at how you can make the process less boring at the very least.
Because if some combination of the process and the results it produces is boring to you……….
It doesn’t matter how SMARTly set the goal was.
Much love,
Jon ‘Bore off’ Hall
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