That’s What I Call A Goal!

Posted on 29 March 2008

If you read my post on goal setting the other day you’ll know that it’s a process that I believe strongly in. I believe in it, because I know it works, and I know it works because I have seen it do so time and time again with clients, and also with myself.

I’m going to do something now I never thought I’d ever do in my life, and that’s quote Donald Trump. Don’t worry I’m not growing my hair and asking my hairdresser to do a triple comb over with forward sweep, I’m just quoting Trumpy for the purposes of demonstration.

“If you’re going to be thinking at all, you may as well think big”

I’m not a huge fan of the strangely coiffured one, but I do respect his ability as a businessman and I think this quote is on the money. Having said that, I now want to paraphrase it for my own ends and to get it to make more sense in terms of this post. So if you’re ready, here goes:

“If you’re going to be setting goals, you may as well set HUGE ones”

Do you like it? I think it’s got legs myself.

Too many people think small when setting goals because they think they need to be realistic and they don’t want to disappoint themselves. I honestly believe that such people would rather live a lifetime of minor disappointment than try and break out and risk occasional major disappointment. That’s not what the super-successful do, they fail, and fail often. In fact, it’s not inaccurate to say that the most successful people in life are often the biggest failures! The difference being though, is that they embrace failure as a means to an end. They know that they will learn, gain experience from it and turn the possibility of success into a glorious inevitability.
 
Earlier this week I was working with a client on goal setting and going through the SMARTER method. With each goal we went down the list to make sure it fitted all the criteria and he’d done a pretty good job and they mostly did. Then we got to the last goal and it was a big one. No, scratch that, it was gargantuan. It was the kind of goal that had me laughing and pumping my fists in the air. Not because it was unrealistic but because it was so magnificently, stunningly, fantastic. Before this guy told me his goal the biggest I’d ever been given by a client was to be worth $3billion. That was impressive, but not compared to this beauty.

Have I given it a big enough build up do you think? Yeh I reckon so too, so here we go.

This guys goal is to be able to offer medical supplies to any human being on the planet that’s in need through a worldwide series of free clinics! Not bad, huh? That’s a goal you can really get your teeth into.

I’m not interested in people that say it’s unrealistic or he’ll never do it. I really don’t care what they think. This guy is aiming high, and even if he comes up way short and only manages one clinic, it’s one more than now and a lot of people will be grateful for that.

What goals do you have?

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