A Written Goal ?
Posted 30th January 2008 at 02:20 PM by MeenLoch
Do you believe in writing down goals, vision, objectives ?? Here is a small statistics 
In a Harvard class (not a bad school - everyone on relatively equal footing at a university of that level, so a good
test case) - the numbers are rounded - 83% of people said that they had no defined goals. 13% said they have
goals, but didn't write them down. Remaining 3-4% had goals and wrote them down.
Here's the kicker - the 83% were the baseline - average. The 13% who had goals but didn't write them down made
twice as much money than the 83%. And the 3-4%, they made twice as much money as the 13%.
I write down, but when it comes to following the list, it gets slower. I feel written goals or resolutions definitely have their impact. They orient you towards what you want to do. Of course they have to be right before our eyes so that you read it more often and get back on track in case you are not
In a Harvard class (not a bad school - everyone on relatively equal footing at a university of that level, so a good
test case) - the numbers are rounded - 83% of people said that they had no defined goals. 13% said they have
goals, but didn't write them down. Remaining 3-4% had goals and wrote them down.
Here's the kicker - the 83% were the baseline - average. The 13% who had goals but didn't write them down made
twice as much money than the 83%. And the 3-4%, they made twice as much money as the 13%.
I write down, but when it comes to following the list, it gets slower. I feel written goals or resolutions definitely have their impact. They orient you towards what you want to do. Of course they have to be right before our eyes so that you read it more often and get back on track in case you are not
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yes, i fall under that 3/4 percent. and i wish i had known about this goal thing when i was in college itself. well better late than never. and iam still under the process of starting my goal . hehe. but what the heck, i wrote it down and fell under that 3% dint i ? ;)Posted 30th January 2008 at 04:29 PM by swtsvn
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it is tough to have a goal written as it never falls in place where life is concerned, i know a hotel management man who made money through a tanker.
like being asked a writer is he writing with the people in mind, never it is the other way around where people like somebody's writing and he becomes a hit, now who set the goal for whom, life can be planned to an extent like making the children study until their college then it takes a different dimension, so accordingly we set the goalPosted 30th January 2008 at 10:02 PM by sunkan -
Dear Sunkan,
Goals keep changing, shifting and transforming. But to have a definitive approach to things which we really want, a specific written goal with date and time, I feel writing goal works.
As for your example, have you read this this book called Affluent Society by Galbraith? He says the same thing. Things are written to satisfy, they are never original. I see a lot of it everywhere.Posted 30th January 2008 at 10:54 PM by MeenLoch -
I have tried writinng down goals. But what I find easy to do is break the goal into small steps and follow. That way atleast I will follow up 1/2 or 3/4 way.Posted 16th March 2008 at 12:00 PM by sundarusha - You have point there, Usha...Agin wrting down those sub-steps helps..Infact writing and having them before us to read would help.Posted 16th March 2008 at 08:11 PM by MeenLoch
