Do Your Goals Evolve?

Why is it that there are so many great ideas, goals, and intentions, but so few of them results in long term improvements, alternatives, and approaches? Do you constantly review and evaluate your personal goals and attitudes, and make the tweaks, modifications, or changes that are needed? How do you develop your goals, and how should a leader develop goals? The most essential consideration regarding goal setting is that one must recognize that a goal is derived from either a personal or organizational vision or mission, and must be something that motivates one to persist and persevere, while remaining open to alternative approaches. These must be consistently and constantly reevaluated and reviewed, because neither an individual or an organization exists in a static world, and therefore they must either evolve and adapt, or risk becoming either irrelevant, or at the very best, less important or meaningful than previously. Only when we evolve in our perspectives are we able to transform even the most important goals to meaningful and effective action.

1. Most of the time, we either make a conscious or subconscious decision between being proactive versus procrastinating. Few individuals recognize that they are procrastinating, and generally resort to reasoning that supports their program of avoiding change. Excuses (and the reality is that procrastination is simply the massive accumulation of a disease I call,"excusitis,") are almost always a debilitating and weakening behavior, while often feeling comfortable and easier at the present time, nearly always deliver longer term weakening and are somewhat destructive. Only individuals or leaders who expand their comfort zone to becoming and maintaining a proactive mindset and approach, are true leaders, because effective leadership necessitates well - reasoned and properly planned risks. The only leader who thinks that he avoids risk is the procrastinator, and that approach inherently brings on the greatest risks of all, which include lack of being prepared, no contingency planning and the inevitable diminishment of relevancy.

2. How do you set your goals? Are these goals truly yours (in other words, things that have motivating and essential meaning and significance to you, and will motivate you to persist and persevere when others will give up), or are you simply taking what you believe to be the easier course of following the apparent presently popular route? Which of Robert Frost's infamous "roads" do you opt to take, when you need to make a decision? When do you decide the course, and do you do so proactively or reactively?

Meaningful goal setting is an essential component in growing as an individual or a leader! However, unless we realize that real goals must constantly be tweaked and evolve proactively, rather than waiting until they have to!

Richard has owned businesses, been a COO, CEO, and Director of Development, as well as a consultant. He has professionally run events, consulted to over a thousand leaders, and conducted personal development seminars, for over 30 years. Rich has written three books and well over a thousand articles. His company, PLAN2LEAD, LLC has an informative website http://plan2lead.net and Plan2lead can also be followed on Facebook http://facebook.com/Plan2lead

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