The Official Lifestyle Goals 2012 Thread

[Mark]

@NakedAndFamous, as far as I can tell you haven't accomplished any of your 5 goals, and have only made progress on 2 of them and you're already talking about adding more. I think that's just asking for failure. If anything, you should be dropping 1-2 from the list to focus heavily on the others.


A good friend of mine who is a business consultant passed along an interesting study of corporations. The study found that corporations which created 3 or less goals each year almost always accomplished all of them. Businesses that created 4-6 goals usually accomplished about half of them. Businesses which created 7+ goals each year pretty much never accomplished any of them.

Take away is that 3 goals at a time seems to be the sweet spot. Also that more goals can distract from each other and actually make it less likely that you accomplish any of them.

Keep in mind these were large organizations though and not individuals.