Talking about personal goals

With a goal, there is a direction to work hard.

In fact, my concept of goals has always been vague, and I have never set a clear and systematic goal.

But the biggest advantage is that when I was in the northeast, I always had an idea that entering Beijing was a goal.

After I had the idea of going to Beijing, I thought about what to do in Beijing. What kind of people are lacking there? What aspects should I improve my ability? Who do I need to know? Who can help me get into Beijing and so on. Ability to go up, seize the opportunity, really go to Beijing.

This is the magic of scoring goals.

Recently, the goal of efforts in the future has been determined, and an action plan of 10 1 has been drawn. I feel full of confidence.

Today we are going to talk about personal goals.

The goal is the final result pursued in a certain period of time, the concretization of the purpose and mission at a certain stage, and the future situation of the expectations you strive to achieve. For example, if you want to earn 2 million yuan in 1 year, this is your annual goal.

The importance of goals

The difference between successful people and ordinary people lies in whether they have their own clear goals. If they want to succeed, they must set the goal of success. When you set your goal in life, you can become a ship with a sailing goal, and the wind in any direction is downwind. When you pick up the first bucket of gold, you will find it much easier to earn the second 1 ten thousand than the first 1 ten thousand.

The role of the goal is reflected in the following four aspects:

The first is to point out the direction. Bisell, a tourist attraction in the Western Sahara Desert. A long time ago, Bisell was a barren place, and people could only get in but not out. In the endless desert, if a person walks forward by feeling, he will only walk out of many circles of different sizes, and the last footprint is in the shape of a tape measure. People never go out because they don't realize this. Later, a young man appeared. He found that Searle was surrounded by desert, and there was nothing to refer to. So he found the Big Dipper and successfully walked out of the desert under the guidance of the Big Dipper. The young man later became the pioneer of Searle, and his bronze statue stood in the center of the town. There is a line engraved on the base of the bronze statue: a new life begins in the selected direction. So some people compare this effect of the target to the "Big Dipper".

The second is to see the mission clearly and generate motivation. After defining the action goal, the goal produces a positive attitude, mobilizes the subconscious and tries to create the best result. Only after reaching your goal will you feel a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. Stimulate work enthusiasm, dedication and creativity, and the goal makes us feel the meaning and value of survival.

Goals determine mentality: Only with goals can we have an attitude, know what to stick to, and achieve "Zhi Zhi is calm, peaceful and far-reaching". Goals determine what knowledge you should learn and how to integrate what you need. Goals determine where you spend your time and how to make full use of it. Goals determine what kind of friends you should make, what kind of contacts you should integrate, and how to use these resources.

Third, the goal lets us shift our focus from the process to the result; We know the results we want, we know why we have to pay like this, and what kind of shore we will reach; Goals help us to prioritize and grasp the key points; Goals let us concentrate and grasp the present.

The fourth is the decision-making criteria and assessment basis. Objectives are not only the starting point for making decision plans, but also the basis for evaluating the quality of making and implementing management decisions. Only by setting clear goals can we have objective standards of thinking and action, instead of making decisions based on subjective wishes and making assessments based on subjective impressions.

How to set goals

Where does the goal come from?

All the wishes we want to achieve can be called goals. We can list our main goals, nothing more than the following aspects:

Work, family life, interpersonal relationship, growth, wealth, health, personal interests, etc.

But in fact, most personal goals can be achieved through wealth goals. Therefore, work and growth goals are particularly important, because I am for everyone and everyone is for me. If you can bring value to others, you can get wealth and satisfy more personal wishes. For example, family relationship and friend relationship, in addition to getting along well with others, your economic ability can also have a great impact; Life, interests, health, etc. , can not be separated from the support of a certain economic capacity.

Goals must be the result of overall consideration, and each goal must be coordinated.

The goal level should be clear, and the goals of an organization are not equally important. It is necessary to highlight the key objectives about the success or failure of organizational operation, and then list the corresponding sub-objectives at different levels under the overall objectives.

The goal should be established on a reliable basis, and it must be feasible, not unattainable. It should be based on careful investigation and study of the internal and external environment of the organization, with sufficient objective basis.

Goals must be specific and easy to measure, not general and empty slogans, and be expressed in numbers as much as possible.

Clear goals are the motivation and source to support your actions. A good goal should be achievable, quantifiable and executable.

Requirements for the measurability of the target: quantify as much as possible, refine as much as possible and streamline as much as possible. Quantification is to measure the target according to the immediate quantity, quantity and quality. If you don't quantify the goal, you won't know where the responsibility lies, and there will inevitably be buck-passing in your work, so that even the grand goal can only be an empty slogan. Therefore, it is necessary to quantify when setting goals. Therefore, quantifying goals helps us to accomplish our tasks better.

The goal should be relatively stable, and it should be relatively stable after it is determined. Don't constantly change it. At the same time, it is necessary to adjust in time according to the changes in the internal and external environment of the organization and implement the rolling goal.

Two major misunderstandings

One is that there is no clear goal, or there are certain challenging goals, and you can go anywhere.

The second is that the goal is too big, but it has lost its goal.

Peter drucker, a management guru, said in Management Practice: "It doesn't mean that you have a goal when you have a job. On the contrary, only when you have a goal can you decide everyone's job. Therefore, the mission and task of the enterprise must be transformed into goals. " In other words, we can't just rely on the existing conditions and resources to achieve what we want. We must also make demands and create conditions to achieve higher goals, but at the same time we must ensure that this goal can be achieved.

Therefore, management by objectives must solve these two problems.

First, from the beginning to the end-the core of target management (things start from the end)

The second habit mentioned by Stephen R.Covey, a famous management master, in Seven Habits of Efficient People is "from the beginning to the end", that is, "things start from the end" in college-only when you have a clear goal can you know where to start.

First and last, this is very important. It means that we have to be clear about our goals so that we can know where to start and achieve this goal in a planned way, not where to go-this is the way to success quickly.

The problem of order is particularly prominent in the game competition. Which move to play first, which move to play later, the result will even be very different. The order of playing chess, cards and tournaments may directly affect the outcome.

The famous horse racing in Tian Ji is a typical story of changing the result by changing the order.

We often say that choice is more important than effort, which is the importance of management by objectives, because choice determines the direction, which is a strategic issue, while effort is to solve tactical problems. The direction is wrong, no matter how good the tactics are, the harder you work, the farther away from the target. This is what the opposite story tells.

That's why we have this sentence: "Winners constantly revise their methods, while losers constantly change their directions."

There is a beginning, and there is a beginning. The simplest understanding is:

If the goal is not clear, we will waste time on many things that have nothing to do with the goal, and we will also lack a clear direction in the accumulation of knowledge and ability, either because we have not studied enough or because we have learned a lot of knowledge that is rarely used in fact. At the same time, we will not be sure to make more friends related to our future achievements, let alone integrate our personal resources.

Let's take entrepreneurship as an example, simply compare the differences between "from the beginning to the end" and "from the end", and integrate resources according to the goal, so as to develop faster.

Second, stage satisfaction with objectives-the key to management by objectives (Zhi Zhi)

"University" said: "If the ancient desire is obviously superior to the world, we must first govern the country; If you want to govern your country, you must first get your family together; If you want your family to be together, you must repair your body first. After self-cultivation, the family will rule the country, and the country will be peaceful. " What I'm talking about is the key to management by objectives, which is to realize the goals of each stage one by one, so as to reach the next stage.

Therefore, before the phased decomposition of goals, the second sentence of Chapter 1 of University first warns us that you can have lofty goals, but you must first understand Zhi Zhi, because "Zhi Zhi can decide later, decide later, be quiet later, be safe later, be safe later, and then you can get it."

Everyone wants to be an excellent talent, but they all have to go through the growth process from ordinary to excellent and from excellent to excellent, and they all have to go through several key growth stages. The turning point, ability and knowledge structure of each stage are obvious. Therefore, each time period should have a relatively satisfactory goal, which I call "phased satisfaction goal".

Relationship between goal and time

Our life can only be called an ideal, more than ten years, can only be called a vision, five years as a strategic goal, three years as a strategic plan-in these time spans, it is difficult to be specific and detailed. In today's rapidly changing times, who can predict and accurately plan what will happen in three years?

So I roughly defined the concept of goals with different time lengths, which is convenient for us to distinguish:

How to achieve the goal

What do you want to be in five years, ten years or a year? These are your goals. You don't want to stay where you are all the time, but it's hard to know your real goal.

Many people think that setting a goal in life is to find some distant dreams, but they will never come true. This is considered only to predict how to realize one's ambition, because, first, these goals are not defined in sufficient detail; Second, there is no corresponding action, and it will always be a goal.

Defining your goals is something that requires you to spend a lot of time thinking carefully. The following steps can get you started on this journey:

Write a list of your goals in life.

Life goal is a very important thing, in other words, your life ambition, but ambition always sounds like something you can't control, and life goal is that you are willing to put in your energy to achieve it. So what do you really want in life? What do you really want to accomplish? If you suddenly find that you no longer have enough time to finish it, what will you regret? These are your goals. Write down these goals in one sentence. If any of these goals is just a key step towards another goal, then remove it from the list, because it is not your goal in life.

For each goal, you need to set a time frame that you think is appropriate.

This is your ten-year plan, five-year plan and one-year plan. Some of these goals may be "shelved" because of your age, health, financial situation, etc. These factors that you need to use to achieve your goals will take some time to achieve.

The next step is to describe the detailed process of achieving each goal in your life-this is the more exciting part. For each life goal, please follow the following steps:

Write down every life goal at the top of a blank sheet of paper.

Write down the resources you need to accomplish this goal under each goal, but you don't have it yet.

? These things may be some kind of education, career changes, finance, new skills and so on. Any key step that you deleted in step 1 can be added to this step. If there are sub-goals under any goal, they can be added to ensure that every step of life has precise actions.

For each item listed in step 2, write down the actions required to complete each step.

? This may be a list of all the concrete steps you can take to achieve your goal.

Check the time frame you wrote down in step 2 and write down your target year on each target list.

For those goals that have no clear deadline, consider the year you want to complete, and take this as the deadline.

Check the whole time frame and write down the actual time of each small step you need to complete.

Now check your whole life goal, and then make a timetable for this week, this month and this year.

In this way, you can accomplish your goal according to the predetermined distance.

Write down all the target completion time points on your schedule, so that you have a clear time to complete what you want to accomplish.

At the end of a year, look back at what you did this year, cross out what you accomplished this year, and write down what you will accomplish next year.

For example, it may take you many years to complete a job promotion, because you must first find a part-time job to ensure that you can get more money to get an MBA degree by completing on-the-job courses, but you will eventually achieve your goal, because you not only plan what you want, but also plan how to get it and what steps you should take before getting it. Congratulations!