{"id":14616,"date":"2023-09-20T14:05:27","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/leadership\/you-cant-reach-a-goal-if-you-dont-set-it\/"},"modified":"2023-09-20T14:05:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:05:28","slug":"you-cant-reach-a-goal-if-you-dont-set-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mysourcefunding.com\/?p=14616","title":{"rendered":"You Can\u2019t Reach A Goal If You Don\u2019t Set It"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Look around and you\u2019ll see talented people everywhere. The world is full of folks who are smart, innovative, creative, and diligent\u2014and many of them know it. Proficient people are often keenly aware of their own ability to shine. However, so many of them fail to make it big, despite their merits, despite their confidence, despite their dreams, despite the fact they\u2019re better at what they do than 99 percent of their peers.<\/p>\n

What holds these superstars back? What prevents them from meeting their full potential? What\u2019s the silver bullet?<\/p>\n

Think about your own experiences where the best person didn\u2019t go home with the biggest prize. For example, maybe the most pitchperfect, technically proficient, dynamic singer you\u2019ve ever heard is still working for tips at some random suburban karaoke bar you went to for your cousin\u2019s bachelorette party, yet that popular band you hate is selling out arenas.<\/p>\n

Or what about your awkward high school chemistry lab partner\u2014the guy who was always accidentally melting beakers and giving you acid burns\u2014the same person who is now a PhD testifying about science to a senate subcommittee?<\/p>\n

Why do some succeed when many do not?<\/p>\n

The assumption is that the cream always rises to the top, but this is simply not true. While talent, creativity, innovation, hard work, and a certain amount of luck are key elements, none of these aspects will guarantee results on their own.<\/p>\n

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So the silver bullet for turning talent and potential into success is. . .goal setting, paired with deadlines and accountability.<\/p>\n

Listen, I know goal setting is not a sexy concept, especially when presented with her homely stepsisters, deadlines and accountability, but hear me out. A Harvard Business study found that 10 years after graduation, the 3 percent of their students who bothered to write down their goals ended up earning 10 times as much as the other 97 percent who did not.<\/p>\n

Imagine the flex of out-earning your peers 10 to 1 at your next reunion!<\/p>\n

Goal setting isn\u2019t just having a dream you\u2019d like to achieve and putting it on paper. I\u2019ve already mentioned you need more than rubber cement, poster board, and back issues of Vogue<\/em> magazine to create your vision. What I used and you need is a systematic plan, and that\u2019s goal setting\u2019s homerun swing.<\/p>\n

Goal setting is where most people get stuck, and there are two reasons for this. First, people often come up with an amorphous goal, such as \u201cI\u2019m going to work really hard because I want to create a world-changing app, or an AI-based technology.\u201d The problem is that there\u2019s no measurable metric behind goals like this and no timeline. Goals must have a direction and a deadline to be effective. A common acronym in goal setting is to make that goal SMART, meaning Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely.<\/p>\n

Second, once you\u2019ve established that measurable goal, holding yourself accountable to meeting the objective in a timely manner is key<\/strong>. So many people refuse to be tough on themselves, and that\u2019s why they don\u2019t see their dreams come to fruition. They allow themselves too much slack. (More on this shortly.) Remember, time is the enemy<\/em>\u2014if you wait too long to get your world-changing app or AI-based tech to the marketplace, a hundred other companies may beat you to the punch. You can\u2019t wait around because the benefits of being first are too great.<\/p>\n

For me, I didn\u2019t want to start just any language translation company. When we decided to create our business, I knew there were literally 10,000 other companies in the translation space. While there were a handful of larger organizations like Euramerica, most of them were one- to five-person shops, started and run by linguists who were so busy translating, they couldn\u2019t grow their businesses. We were set on starting a different kind of translation company, to be a pioneer in the space. We wouldn\u2019t be satisfied to just be<\/em> in the business; we wanted to create the biggest and the best, the world\u2019s leader, with the most versatile and robust solutions and be the most client-centric one-stop shop.<\/p>\n

We wanted to disrupt the industry.<\/p>\n

Our overall goal was specific\u2014to create the world\u2019s premier language solutions company. We knew the only way we\u2019d achieve this was by setting measurable goals with deadlines and holding ourselves accountable for meeting them. When I say holding ourselves accountable, I mean working constantly in the early years, because that is what it took to meet our objectives. We wanted to go big to win big and this is what it took. I wish I could tell you about the shortcuts we employed, but there were none. If you want massive success, you\u2019re going to have to put in massive effort, for an extended period of time. And there\u2019s nothing sexy about it. It\u2019s working to satisfy a goal until you worry you can\u2019t go any farther and then pushing on anyway. Going from zero to the largest would entail setting and satisfying thousands of smaller metrics along the way (thousands of steps, if you will).<\/p>\n

Excerpted with permission from the publisher, Wiley, from <\/em>Dream Big and Win<\/em> by Liz Elting. Copyright \u00a9 2023 by Pink Star, LLC. All rights reserved. This book is available wherever books and eBooks are sold.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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