Visions, Goals and Self-Flagellation

Are you scoring an own goal with your goal-setting???

The Sticky Middle Ground…

I did wonder whether there was much new to be said in the area of vision, goals-setting and why we seem to set one course and take another…

But yes, it turns out this is still a topic that causes confusion, sometimes frustration, and often comes with an unhealthy dose of ‘should’ or ‘have to’, or an unhealthy dose of self-questioning at the mild end, and self-criticism at the more severe end.

On the call yesterday, my own assumption was confirmed-the area where we get most stuck is what I’m calling ‘the middle ground’. I don’t mean those covid kilos settling round my waist, but the place where we think goal-setting takes place, all the work we do at the end of the year to decide what we want and how to get there… yes that.

It seems to me that we do pretty well when we’re asked to identify something on the horizon-a guiding beacon, or a ‘feeling’ of what we’re up to in the world or in our role.

It can be as general as, I want to light a spark in people (and that came up, in one form or another for most of us).

Or it can be more specific, I help doctors help patients, as one of my former clients shared with me last week on a catch-up…