Goal setting, a hot topic for discussion among the personal development gurus.

Some claim that goal setting plays no part in them achieving their goals while others preached that by setting your goals right, you are more likely to reach your goals through the easier and more enjoyable path.

So, who is right and who is wrong? Well, to me, both groups have their own reasons for stating their claims. Therefore, it is all up to you to determine if you find goal setting is beneficial to you or not.

And if you ask me if I believe in goal setting, I would definitely say “YES” without any hesitation. Of course, goal setting alone will not be able to help you achieve anything. However, when combine with other powerful techniques like creative visualization, affirmation etc, you will most likely to reach your goal the fast and easy way.

Although personally I find goal setting to be helpful, many other people may not seem to agree with me. If you were to do a search for the articles on goal setting, it is not too hard to find some controversial articles about the use of goal setting.

Even so, that doesn’t mean goal setting won’t work. Instead, goal setting works if you work it correctly.

I personally have read quite some books on the so-called “correct” techniques of goal setting. However, after you have read 2-3 such books, you will find that most of the content inside them were mostly reiterated stuff.

Of course, that doesn’t mean those books that wrote about goal setting are of no use to you. They definitely have presented to you, their readers the essence of goal setting. However, they all seem to lack of one very simple, yet important point.

The point of setting your goals in accordance to your calling and purpose. Not the other way round!

Why do people give up so easily when trying to reach for their goals?

Why do people find it hard to follow through their action plans?

Why are they constantly procrastinating in doing the correct things at the correct time in the correct place?

Well, the reason is actually very simple. They are trying to derive their calling or purpose in life from those goals which they have set instead of doing it the other way round.

Your calling or purpose is loosely defined as the tasks and roles you are sent to accomplish in this world. By following your purpose and calling, you are in fact finding your easiest, shortest and laziest path to success.

The truth is, the path to success need not always be a difficult to walk. If so, most likely you aren’t walking on the right path.

If you walk on the path that leads you to your calling, you will find that the journey down that path is actually the most enjoyable path you ever walked on. At the same time, that path is also the easiest path for you to reach your success, happiness and growth.

Therefore, by setting your goals first and trying to derive your calling from them is actually against the nature! You won’t want to spend half of your life reaching the top of the ladder only to find the ladder against the wrong wall, will you?

Therefore, take some time off your schedule to look at all the goals you have in hand now.

Are you struggling to reach those goals?

Do they seem difficult, hard and tedious to reach?

And most importantly, are your goals derived from your calling or the other way round?

Thus, as I have mentioned earlier, goal setting will work if you work it well.

Remember: If your route to success is tedious and difficult, now is probably a good time to look at what you are meant for and redesign your goals from there.