Good Things About Setting Goals

Keeps us accountable

Makes us responsible for our life

Can make us accountable to others

Gives us direction

Gives us a destination to reach

Gives us purpose

Guides intermediate mission

Helps us see the bigger picture

Promotes long-term vision

Provides a clear roadmap and path to follow each day towards goal achievement

Provides a line of sight

Helps us prioritise

Means we understand what is most important to us

Enables us to prioritise our time and energy

Forces us to set priorities which establish direction to our pursuits

Helps focus attention toward goal-relevant activities and away from goal-irrelevant activities

Helps us focus

Clarifies the future we want to create with measurements and deadlines

Eliminates distraction, overwhelm, and procrastination

Focuses acquisition of knowledge or skill

Focuses desire

Focuses intention

Gives us clarity

Helps create better boundaries around our time, energy, and focus

Defines reality and separates it from wishful thinking

Help us avoid shiny object syndrome

Helps us make better decisions

Serves as a criterion to sharpen decision making

Gives us more freedom of thought

Motivates us to take action

Gives inspiration

Grows our confidence and belief in our abilities

Helps us sustain momentum in life

Increases our sense of what we can achieve

Induces effort

Helps mobilize energy

Inspires us to take on bigger challenges

Motivates us to develop strategies that will enable us to perform at the required goal level

Proves we are capable of learning new things and overcoming challenges

Serves as an energizer

Helps us be more productive

Improves persistence

Provides a clear timeline and measurements for goal achievement

Sets resource constraints that can positively affect work pace

Gives more time freedom

Helps to determine what gets done on a daily basis

Helps us organize resources

Helps trigger new behaviours

Helps us plan better

Helps us manage our time effectively

Leads to discovery and use of task-relevant knowledge and strategies

Leads to greater effort

Helps us use resources in an optimum way

Leads to achievements

Gives us more control over our future

Activates cognitive knowledge and strategies that help us cope with situations

Gives us a sense of past victories

Provides a stimulus for present successes

Provides the framework to make measurable progress

Provides specific measurements and achievements to work towards each day

Helps us continually improve

Helps us do great things

Help us live our best life

Makes us aware of our strengths

Helps us use our strengths to overcome obstacles

Helps us use our strengths to provide solutions to problems

Makes us feel good

Helps promote a sense of self-mastery

Gives us greater peace of mind

Gives a sense of satisfaction