The purpose of setting a goal is not to hit the goal. The real purpose of setting a goal is to develop yourself into the type of person who can achieve your goals, regardless of whether you hit any particular one or not. Some goals you’ll reach, and some you won’t. It is who you become by giving it everything you have until the last moment — regardless of your results — that enables you to develop the mindset and behaviors that will help you achieve bigger and bigger goals for the rest of your life.

Before we start any task, we must set ourselves a goal. Once a goal is set, we will be able to identify a direction in which we can apply our energy and effort. To set a goal is to “make a resolution’ or in Buddhist terms “to resolve and make a vow.”

Let me share with you an intriguing thought. The real value in setting goals is not in their achievement. The acquisition of the things you want is strictly secondary. The major reason for setting goals is to compel you to become the person it takes to achieve them. Let me explain:

My 2-step goal-setting framework:

1. Pick an outcome I want to achieve

2. Change the goal from "I want to achieve X" to "I want to enjoy every second on the journey to achieving X."

95% of achieving goals is learning to cherish the journey & loving the monotonous consistency.

I’m a big goal-setter. I write them down before the start of a season. I used to write them down in a journal but now I keep them in my phone. I have short and long-term goals, but I always make sure I include goals that are easy to smash because I feel this helps me along the way.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

And how will I accomplish this? First I will set goals for the day, the week, the month, the year, and my life. Just as the rain must fall before the wheat will crack its shell and sprout, so must I have objectives before my life will crystallize. In setting my goals I will consider my best performance of the past and multiply it a hundredfold. This will be the standard by which I will live in the future. Never will I be of concern that my goals are too high for is it not better to aim my spear at the moon and strike only an eagle than to aim my spear at the eagle and strike only a rock? Today I will multiply my value a hundredfold.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes you do to accomplish it. This will always be a far greater value than what you get.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. – Lloyd Jones There are many reasons why people don’t set goals, including: 1. A pessimistic attitude — Looking for the pitfalls rather than the possibilities. 2. Fear of failure — thinking. “What if I don’t make it?” Subconsciously people feel that if they don’t set goals and don’t achieve them, they feel they haven’t failed.

People who have goals succeed because they know where they're going. It's that simple.

I don't think we set and achieve goals in an effort to become happy. We do it because we are happy and want to expand our happiness

Goal setting is the secret to a compelling future.