Nine Reasons You Shouldn’t Bother Setting Goals and Achieving Them

By Alex Work, YourGoalSetting.com

We always hear about the reasons to set goals, and how beneficial they can be. But what about the other side? Isn't it possible that there are reasons to not set goals?

Here is a quick list of nine tongue-in-cheek reasons that setting goals and achieving them may not be the path for you.

1. You Don't Want an Easy and Proven Way to Learn What You Want from Life. Goal setting is an incredibly simple way to discover what you desire. It's a time-tested and guaranteed method to bring you the results you want. But learning how requires a little bit of work, and who has the time these days?

2. You Don't Want Purpose or Direction. People with goals tend to know where they are going, and how they are going to get there. They arm themselves with a comprehensive plan of action, and anticipate roadblocks and setbacks so that they aren't derailed when they hit them. This isn't you. You go from dream to dream, hoping to maybe achieve one of them, leaning on the good will of others or pure luck to achieve great things.

3. You Don't Desire to be More Productive and Efficient. You don't want to grow a keen sense of focus that pushes away anything and everything that clutters up your life. You're okay with wasting time every day on things that you aren't really passionate about. You're fine watching time dwindle away to tasks and people that aren't that important to you.

4. You Can Live Without Building Your Self-Confidence. Those who are proficient at goal setting tend to feel pretty good about themselves; they bounce from achievement to achievement, piling up their self-confidence to levels to where they feel like they could take on the world on a daily basis.

5. You Would Rather Not See What You are Capable Of. Setting goals and achieving them would mean that you'd have to challenge yourself, something you'd rather not do. This could be for a variety of reasons; fear of failure, fear of success, fear of anything that could possibly lead to you having a better life. You'd prefer not to see what you are truly capable of, and it's in this comfort zone that you live in from day to day.

6. You Don't Want to Improve the Quality of Your Work/Relationship/Physical Health. Not having goals in these areas, and going about them moment-to-moment, results in lower performance. According to David McClelland (1917-1998), a prominent American psychological theorist who specialized in achievement motivation, high achievers are those with a very high need to accomplish goals. This desire to accomplish goals means

that there is a demonstrated willingness to improve their standard of living-whether it's getting in shape, getting a promotion at work, or improving a relationship with a spouse.

7. You Don't Want to Get Absurdly Motivated About Your Life. Setting goals and achieving them means getting excited about making positive and life-lasting changes to your standard of living. It means that you get pumped to work towards something meaningful, and it means that you get even more motivated to keep going down that path when you pass the road posts you set for yourself.

8. You Don't Want to Open Yourself to Possibilities and Opportunities. When embarking on a new journey, most goal-setters pick up knowledge and abilities along the way that they never imagined. A web entrepeneur will pick up opportunities and ideas from other web entrepeneurs along his journey by association in forums, etcetera. This knowledge is closed off to those who assume that they know everything.

9. You Don't Want to Develop a Strong Sense of Self-Accountability. Goal-setters tend to have a sharp sense of self-responsibility. They are aware of the things that ultimately come down to them, and that it is in their interest to take responsibility. You are happy to blame others for your failures. You refuse to look at yourself when things don't go your way. The reason you failed at something you hoped to achieve lies with everyone else; your peers, your boss, your friends or even your family.

Is it possible that setting goals and achieving them is something you may be interested in after all? Of course it is! Take the first step and learn an easy, step-by-step goal setting process with the 5-Day Ultimate Goal Setting e-Course. Download it for FREE here.