2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
The result of productive thinking is the creation of effective means of solving practical problems, the formation of harmonious relations of partnership and cooperation.
The active formation of the result presupposes that an image of the desired result should appear in our minds. The image that we want to translate into reality. This image is called a goal. And since the vision of the goal sets the ways to achieve it and affects other significant characteristics of the activity, then the creation of the goal and the clarification of this image of the future must be approached responsibly.
Traditionally, the following general requirements for goals are distinguished:
- goals should be clear and simple.
- goals must be measurable and consistent
- goals must be achievable, relevant and approved
- goals must be relevant, acceptable and realistic
- goals should be limited in time
These requirements are clear and simple, but it is not at all easy to make the goals meet these criteria.
“I'm going to go in for sports” - your intention is clear, but there is no goal here yet, as long as it is an empty abstraction. Here's an example of a goal: “Throughout the year, regardless of the weather or state of mind, go to the gym (or pool) three times a week.
To help consciously design goals, Vadim Levkin formulated the main elements of a goal, what it consists of. You can go through this list and check if all of these components have one or another purpose for you. A well-defined goal has:
- A clear mental image of what you want, a conscious formulation.
- Feeling of achievability of the anticipated result.
- Vision of terms, time frames for achieving the goal.
- Knowledge of the criterion for achieving the goal.
- Plan and monitoring of its implementation.
- A sense of pleasure in anticipating success.
- Specific actions to achieve goals.
There are such typical mistakes when setting a goal:
- Ignoring a strategic, more meaningful goal. That is, for the sake of which the current tactical goal is formulated.
- Negative goal formulation. Formulation through negation or through "not".
- Blurred statement of purpose. This means that the image of the anticipated future is also blurred, which means that it will not be possible to effectively organize actions to achieve it, to translate it into reality.
- Partial application of priorities. Usually this is a violation of the hierarchy of your values, these are compromise goals that you go for in order to save energy and nerves, or under the pressure of circumstances. To eliminate this error, you need to restore the hierarchy of values. Look through the prism of these values at the tasks that you set for yourself.
- The officially stated goals do not correspond to reality. This mistake usually consists in unconscious self-deception. A person sets a goal that he is not really going to achieve, or in the attainability of which he really does not believe. Often, declarative goals are set for the sake of relationships with another person, and in this case, the declarative goal is just a declaration, without real action.
Good luck in setting and achieving your goals!
The article appeared thanks to the works of Vadim Levkin, Nikolai Kozlov and Nossrat Pezeshkian.
Dmitry Dudalov
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