How do you plan your goals?

If we’re talking personal goals? I’m terrible at planning for personal goals. I look at the things I want, I get all wrapped up in my head around a vague goal for those things, and it usually falls apart. Occasionally I will make a more focused attempt, but not too often.

Work goals are usually a lot more solid. We define the goal, we break down the relevant activities and divvy them out, then set a timeline. That is the way a goal needs to be planned out, in the simplest description, and we do well with it.

Circling back to personal goals, you would think that I could apply the same structure to those, right? I suppose there have been a couple of times that worked, but usually it’s because someone else is involved and they’re depending on me (whether they realize it or not) to make things work out. I can step things out for some goals, put that structure in place, but then it falls apart because I’m putting it all on myself and I’m only accountable to myself. So, the natural assumption is I’m probably not too concerned with the success or failure of said goal.

I don’t have the same drive or ambition as others, and that’s okay. I like to remind myself that goals are good to have, even if you stumble or fail. You can always pick yourself up and make a new goal and go at your own pace based on what you learned last time.