Recipe for success: what should be the motivating goal

In speaking time devoted to the issue of motivation at the company level, a businessman asked, "How do you motivate yourself?" The answer was as follows:

For personal motivation as I know only one way - the goal. If its very vision and determination does not turn you into a homing missile to achieve a result, you should probably find another goal.

I agree that the issue of self-motivation goal is crucial, because sets the direction of all subsequent actions. However, to start your goal to motivate, some important rules must be observed.

1. The aim should be to have a certain period of time

When I was interested in the objectives of the people around them, they are happy to share their plans. However, when I elaborate on the question and ask: "What are your goals for the next 2-3 years" - many are lost. This is because they are used to understand the desire for the execution of which is calculated under the goals.

"I want to learn English," "I want to read more", "I want to start running" - such statements are not targets and will not be motivated to change. If the target has no deadline to achieve, then you do not even want to begin to implement it.

The first thing you need to start the goal to push you to the result - it is life. And here it is important not to allow one of the two errors.

• Do not rush. Ten years to dump 20 kg idea too is not of the best. After all, you can achieve individual success and in a short time.
• Too hasty. You will not be able to lose 20 kg per month, or a week to learn English. Be realistic.

Albert Einstein once said very accurately: "He who wants to see the results of their work immediately, should go to the cobbler." You are not a shoemaker, and in order to achieve significant results, you need time, take it. But do not pull. It is always important to determine for themselves when you can look back and evaluate the result.

2. The goal should be scaled up as a matter of fact, and on ways to achieve

The goal is to widely cover the area of ​​your interest. It should challenge you and your abilities, forcing himself to overcome.

Undoubtedly, any goal, one way or another, moves you to action. It is important that it has expanded the usual notion of any reaching.

I am sure that you will be able to learn spoken English for a year. But why not go to a volunteer English-speaking country? Or make friends - native speakers?

Thinking out of the box - «to think outside the system." Well-known metaphor of what is necessary to go beyond the conditions to find the right solution. Look true motives their desires, expanding their boundaries and constantly asking the question: "How else could I achieve this?"

3. The goal must be specific

In the comments to my first article, one girl asked a question about how to deal with her own goals. One of them was formulated as follows: "I want to read as many books of Nobel Laureates in Literature"

I just wanted to ask: "And how do you know when to stop? "As much as possible" - this is how much? "

Vague goals do not give us the opportunity to evaluate the results of our work and make sure that we are going in the right direction. You should always clearly identify how many books to read, how many pages to write, how much money to earn.

I'm sure you've heard this advice many times already, but recently it has become more and scientific fact. Experiments famous scientists, psychologists Dan Ariely (Dan Ariely) and Klaus Vertenbroha (Klaus Wertenbroch) proved that setting clear goals in different areas of human interest greatly increases the likelihood of achieving them.

Explore books and performances of Ariel and receive an additional charge of motivation.

4. The aim should be kept confidential or be properly announced

Do not rush to share his ambitious goal (and especially the timing of achieving it) with other people. In most cases this leads to the effect that in psychology it is called substitution.

Imagine the situation.

You're talking to a friend: "I decided to learn English in six months!" But then, for some mysterious reason, your motivation starts to wane and you put less and less effort. What happened?

Due to the substitution effect we enjoy universal approval of our goals, but because the brain ceases to remind you that you need to put any effort to actually achieve it. Your friends because you are already considered "superdostigatelem", and one of them six months later remember about your promise?

Out of this situation two.

• Expose for all to see only the interim results on the way to the goal. Praised the knowledge of new words and phrases, mastered the rules of grammar.
• If you still want to share your dream, then do so, to get as little as possible and fun to throw himself even more call"I'm going to learn conversational English for six months, but for this I need to practice for an hour a day, and if I'm going to be lazy, you push me well!"

This principle has opened a founder of social psychology of Kurt Lewin. He also owned the remarkable words:

Truly can understand only what you try to change.

Do not rush to share goals, until you notice the first changes, but when they happen, you will be more pleasant to share the achievements already committed.

at last

Sometimes it seems to me that the topic of goal setting works written more than putting goals. In this article I have tried to give a more updated look at the usual understanding of the order, adding some of these scientific facts.

Many of the criteria and principles will still be repeated, but the bottom line, it seems to me, should remain unchanged: goal - is only the beginning of a great work, and without effort, that we should be applying, and so it will be easy purpose.

I hope I have at least a little to inspire you to setting the right goals, in fact, as the art critic said Sarah Lewis (Sarah Lewis) in one of his speeches, "We have not blooms when all done, but when there is still much to be do. "

Set goals and achieve them!