Showing posts with label setting goals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label setting goals. Show all posts

Having too many goals could be taxing

A study suggests given too many options making a choice leaves a person mentally drained.

Kathleen D. Vohs, PhD, the study's lead author and a member of the University of Minnesota's marketing department, says experiments provide evidence that making choices, as opposed to just thinking about options, is what is especially taxing.

Similarly, having too many goals is taxing. Instead of using your time to reach your goals, you will be spending time choosing which goal to pursue; this pursuit of too many goals will only vex and de-motivate you.

As George Moore said, “The difficulty in life is the choice”, so why spend your life in pursuit of too many goals. Choose one wisely, lessen your distractions; give your undivided attention and energy to a single goal.


Motivational and Inspirational Corner

Setting meaningful goals

I call myself a goal 'skeptic'. I have never had success firstly in setting definable goals and secondly in achieving them.

I had assumed that it was partly due to my failure to see things through and always blamed myself for not being determined or focused enough.

However, do I (we) fail in achieving goals because I am (we) spineless?

Michael Melcher, thinks otherwise:

"Goals are more meaningful when they result
from your taking stock of where you actually are, which requires you to think
about how your life has developed over the past year."


The error isn't in my (our) ways, it lies in how I (we) set them.

This year, I have decided to set my goals starting from where I stand and not from where I need to be.