Avoid these three traps if you’re trying to achieve life goals
Posted by Josh Taylor / October 22, 2013
Everyone has life goals––you know, those things that occupy your mind and your life’s energy. If you’re going to accomplish those goals, you’d better keep a few obstacles in mind. Here’s one:
Major Mistake #1: Pursuing several goals at once
If you are not new to Goal Setting you’ve probably heard advice to break your life goals into 7 different categories: Health, Career, Finances
, Family, Education, Spiritual Goals and Pleasure Goals. It is advised to have 2-3 goals for each category, to give you a complete picture of all the areas that you want to improve your life in.
At a first glance, it makes sense, but what this advice actually represents is a step-by-step guide to failure. First of all, just trying to remember all 21 goals is a tiresome task. But if on top of that you have to pursue a couple, it becomes totally unproductive. Not only are you spreading yourself too thin by dividing limited resources as time, energy and motivation between multiple goals, but you also work harder, instead of working smarter
. Why?
Because just as our brain is not programmed for multi-tasking, constantly switching between two unrelated tasks, it’s not used for pursuing several goals at once. If you want to achieve
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