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Is Your Goal Worth the Time and Effort?


It is very important to estimate how much time and effort your goal requires. Many people get into the trap of working hard to achieve a goal which is not really worth the effort. These people are usually very motivated and serious to achieve their goals. They are very driven and focus in achieving their goal which is a good thing. The problem is that after a period of time of continuous hard work they start to criticize people who don’t work hard on their goals and they consider them soft. While many people do make excuses, and don’t put enough effort to achieve their goal, some of them do have a valid excuse. 

If you want to achieve a certain goal, it is important to estimate the time and effort needed to achieve that goal and decide if it is worth it or not. For example, learning a language will take more than a year of constant studying for most people. Often times people say they are interested in learning X language but they don’t put sufficient among of effort to learn that language. Hard working people will attack these people by saying that they are soft and just making excuses. However, often times they are not really soft but they just realize how much effort it will take to achieve this goal and for them it is not worth it. 

            Moreover, the timing is very important to work in a goal. For example, if you are college student and you have poor academic performance, it is more important to put more effort to improve your academic performance than learning another skill. This does not mean that you are making excuses. When you start to have a good academic performance or after you finish college, you can start working in another goal or skill. You can’t achieve more than one goal in the same time. You can read my post “ Why You Cannot Achieve More Than One Goal in The Same Period of Time  ” where I explained my point in details. Since you can’t achieve more than one goal in the same time, you will have to postpone your goals for the future. This is exactly why it is extremely important to prioritize your goals and decide which one is the most important one at the time being. You need to ask yourself, which skill or goal is the most important one for me at my age? If I can master only one skill this year, which one would I prefer? 

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