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Do not Mistake Your Goal With Your Goal's Steps To Achieve It





Many people make a big mistake when they work on a goal. They focus on the quantity of their hard work more than the quality. It is very important to be wise when you work in your goal. For example, if you want to be a good writer, it does not mean that you need to write fixed amount of words or articles every day to improve your writing. If you want to lose weight, it does not mean that you need to go to the gym every day for 3 hours. It is not really wise to tell yourself to do a fixed amount of work every day in order to achieve your goal. In the beginning of 2019, I have decided to build the habit of reading books. I decided to read 5 pages every day and gradually increase the number. It turned out to be a bad strategy for me since English is my second language. I started to focus more on finishing the number of pages I chose instead of understanding the content of the pages. The point of reading books is to gain knowledge and not just to finish many books and be proud about it. I realized this mistake after a while and I fixed it by focusing on the content more and more. I started to reread the same paragraph over and over until I fully understand it. After I finish the whole book, I reread it again. 

            Another example is during my math courses. I used to think that I need to solve all the exercises in each section to be prepared for the exam. I gradually realized that my goal is not to solve all the exercises but to get a high grade in the exam. This mean that I need to understand the lessons and solve only 5-7 problems from each section to be prepared for the exam and get high grades. It worked for me. It is very critical to fully understand this concept and learn how to create wise strategy for each goal. Otherwise, you will waste time and energy without understanding why you failed. 

            Often times, we focus to much on the steps to reach our goal and we mistake them by the goal itself. We start telling ourselves that in order to achieve our target goal, we need to follow certain steps in a daily basis. We gradually start to focus on keeping doing the steps every day until we start to make these steps our goal instead of the original goal. We actually fooling ourselves just so we can feel good about ourselves. In reality, we are not really making a progress in our goal. Do you agree or disagree? And why?

Please leave your opinion in the comments. Thanks for reading

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