The Drag of Bad Goals
Distinction: Bad Goal vs. Good Goal. A good goal uses language and metrics that ultimately pulls you toward being and bringing your best self creating opportunities for growth and evolution. A bad goal feels forced, either in its creation or in the drive behind doing it.
When you set bad goals for yourself, it creates a drag on you. Bad goals are expensive, ineffective, and worse, hazardous. Try using the MVG FWD Reframe-work to clarify and maximize the impact of your goals. Write down your top 3 goals. Then answer the following questions for each.
- M – What is the force behind the goal? Why do you have it?
- V – Is there a natural pull toward it? If not, can you rewrite it so that it does?
- G – Will the goal use your natural gifts and talents? Or will it be a grind?
- F – Do you have any limiting beliefs to getting it done? Unrealistic expectations?
- W – Will you feel good in the effort? Or only after it’s done?
- D – Can you link the goal to a dream you have?
Now, rewrite the goals with the insights received from the questions above. You may need to do this multiple times until you have refined your goal or better yet, thrown it out all together in favor of a new goal that came into focus; one that better aligns with what moving forward looks like for you.
It’s a drag to hold onto bad goals. Find them. Rewrite them or release them.
