4 Common Reasons People Don’t Set Goals
If you want to be successful today, you must learn to set your goals. If there is one advice that I can give to help you to achieve what you want in your life, it is goal setting.
I can’t stress enough how important goal setting is to you in order to achieve what you really want. Do you think that you can achieve something just like luck? Do you think that you will become a millionaire by doing nothing, and the money just fall from the sky? This is impossible.
You must first have a dream, you wish and think that you want to become a millionaire. However, this is not enough, by just dreaming about what you want will not get you what you want. You must then develop a burning desire. It is your desire that will drive you into taking the action, it is your burning desire that will move you towards your dreams.
If desire itself can bring you what you want, why do you need to have a goal then?
Goal setting is leverage, it is a tool that will get you what you want in a faster and easier manner. Just like if you want to become a millionaire, having a strong desire is good, but having a clear and specific goal pointing you to that direction in the same time is better.
If you still hesitate why you need to have a goal, read this post of mine, Top 3 Reasons Why You Need To Have A Goal.
Now, many people want to be successful, but most of them will not set goals, why? Below are the 4 common reasons people don’t set goals…
1. They Don’t Aware Of The Importance Of Goal Setting
How many of you know about goal setting? The answer is, not much. A lot of people want to be successful, but they will never read more and learn more. And if you are not reading more and learning more, how can you learn the art of goal setting? It is impossible that this skill will come to you automatically.
There must be a time where you first come across this information, where you come across the skill of goal setting in your life. I’ll strongly suggest you to rad through this post of mine, Why You Need To Set Goals Today. Once you went through this post, you will understand why goal setting is important in your life.
Like what I mentioned in that post of mine:
Without direction, we will be caught up with short term outcomes like paying the bills, watching TV, going shopping, trying out the newest restaurant, avoiding problems or simply making it through one hectic week after another. Like rats on a treadmill. We will tend to be caught up in a stressed and monotonous existence instead of designing a destiny and truly living.
So make sure you know why you need to set goals today. When the reasons are clear, you will then start your goal setting journey, but most people…
2. They Don’t Know How To Set Goals
Do you know how to set goals? Many people don’t know how to set goals. In fact, goal setting is just a process, it is not complicated but it is not easy as well. But don’t get freak out because I said that it is not easy. There are many ways how you can set your goals, some are effective than others, and what you want to learn, is of course, the better and more effective ways of goal setting.
Of course, if you ask me how to set effective goals, I’ll tell you to grab my Goal Setting Formula. You will find every step and process there, what you need to do before and after you have set your goals. Go and grab it if you feel that it is going to help you to achieve much more in your life.
3. They Are Afraid Of Failure
Do you afraid of failure? A lot of people don’t set their goals simply because they are afraid of failure! Can you imagine that? They haven’t achieved their goals and they haven’t actually took any real solid action yet, but they are already losing the faith and afraid of failure.
After all, if you don’t set goals, you won’t fail, right? Wrong, you will be living a mediocrity life, which is the biggest failure in your life. So if you don’t have any goals in your life, you’re losing, you fail. Don’t worry about failure my friend, nobody was born perfect, everyone will fail in their lives.
It is just a matter of how you deal with failure. If you treat failure as something bad, something limit you, you will never grow. However, if you treat failure as feedback and change your strategies the moment you receive feedback, you will improve and you will grow. This is what success is all about.
Do you think that Thomas Edison successfully invented the light bulb in his first try? Do you think that Donald Trump makes all his deal successfully without any failure? That is impossible, failure is the mother of all successes. In fact, the more you fail, the more successful you will be.
If you want to be successful today, dare to fail! Take it as a challenge, take it as a chance for you to improve, learn from your failure and change your strategy. Read this post and get inspired so you will never be afraid of failure anymore, Do You Dare To Fail?
Here is one of my favorite quotes from Donald Trump:
“My policy is to learn from the past, focus on the present and dream about my future!”
4. They Are Afraid Of Humiliation
After you have set your goals, did you stick the paper where you’ve written down your goals on the place where you can see often? Most people won’t do this, why? One word, humiliation. Many of us are afraid to tell our friends of our goals. Don’t worry about this, what is wrong with having big goals? What is wrong if you set your goals to live a successful life?
When you think about it carefully, everyone wants to live a successful life, just that they don’t dare to make it public because they are afraid that their friends will laugh at them. Frankly, if you tell your friends that your goal is to become a millionaire, how many of them will laugh at you?
The answer is, not much. Most of your friends are very supportive, some may even encourage you to achieve great goals and big dreams. This is what friends are for, right?
So it is fine to share your goals with people, don’t worry that if you cannot achieve your goals and people might laugh at you. Will you improve even if you did not achieve your goals? Of course you will.
Just like if you set your goal as to double your income, will you guarantee to achieve it? No, but does it really matter even if you don’t achieve it? Will you improve and earn more than usual? Of course you will! When you have a clear and specific goal and you start to work on it, you will definitely improve even if you did not achieve it.
This is why goal setting is so important. It helps you to stay focused and help you to improve the quality of your life slowly, day by day. Thus, if you haven’t found yourself a goal, make sure you set it right now, before you leave this blog.
Ask yourself what you really want to achieve in your life, what you really want to accomplish in your life and what do you want out of your life? Remember, if there is a piece of advice that I can give to help you achieve much more in your life, it is goal setting…

Goal setting is indeed an essential ingredient to success. A life without goal is like a ship without destination.
True enough Raymond.
If you don’t have a target, you will never hit it.
Thank you for inspiring article. As a young girl, I used to think I was bored because I there was nothing to do. later I realized that I just didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do or that I didn’t want to do the things I should really be doing. Thanks for your work.
More about goal setting: http://www.goal-setting-for-success.com
Yes Shawn, I like your point about dare to fail. Many people are dare to success but they are rarely dare to fail. Great article, Shawn.
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