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The Dangers of Goals

Love, happiness and self-actualization are the universal human desires that motivate most goal-setting behavior. Compared to business processes, these desires are non-specific, not measurable and not easily squeezed onto a timeline. In order to achieve a reasonably set or any goal at all, one needs to create some sort of measurement or timeline in order to achieve. This gives the individual motivation and keeps pushing them to succeed to accomplish their goal in the desired time frame, instead of keep putting it off and pushing it back to accomplish at a later time. Without a decent time frame of achieveing your goal people who are accustomed to planning their future will most likely fail in achieving their goals.

"The clever man quickly finds a solution, by substituting a proxy goal for his original desire. His proxy goal is evidently in alignment with the true objective, and has the advantage of being easier to quantify. Typical proxy goals are money, power and fame. Thus equipped, the clever man plans to achieve his desired percentage of satisfaction by a specific date." (Martial Development)

"The wise man sees the negatives of this approach. At the outset, proxy goals produce the desired results. If poverty and powerlessness are real obstacles to happiness, then wealth and empowerment are real solutions. But when these substitutes inevitably diverge from the original objectives, the goals themselves become obstacles to success." (Martial Development)

Without a direct path/vision of one’s true desires, goal setting is just a destructive habit & Confusion.

Do we consider people who achieve their goals successful? Yes. however They are successful by their own measures—as the people who dont set any goals at all. This is subjective bias; if we want the objective truth, we should ask someone without a fast car in the success race.

So nevermind personal speakers, coaches, etc.. "One who sets out on a great enterprise does not concern himself with trifles; one who achieves great successes does not achieve small ones. Mankind’s greatest masters left us a different path to personal empowerment: abandon your goals."