Americans Fail at Setting, Achieving New Year’s Goals

December 22nd, 2005 · 2 Comments

Americans fail at setting and achieving goals. New Years resolutions seem to be the most broken goals made each year. The reason is that the goals are not true goals complying with the SMART profile.

By saying you are going to lose weight and exercise more, you are setting yourself up for failure. Read this great article on goal setting and you will see what I mean.

Church Business - Important New Study Reveals Where Americans Fail at Setting, Achieving New Year’s Goals. The Reasons Might Surprise You.

BOULDER, Colo. — www.ThinkTQ.com — a leading publisher of virtual training products for personal and professional excellence — recently announced the results of its 2005 Goals Study. The data — while more hopeful than last year — shows a big disconnect between people’s hopes and dreams, and their power to realize their aspirations.

Given the numbers below, Americans, once again, get an “F” in this critical area of their performance. Simply put, they fail to consistently take the 10 actions necessary to move their dreams and visions out of their hearts and heads and into their lives.

Tags: Motivation

2 responses so far ↓

1 Troy Worman (4 comments.) // Dec 27, 2005 at 7:49 pm

Excellent advice, Larry! Thanks for the link.
2 Larry Hendrick // Dec 28, 2005 at 3:11 pm

Thanks Troy,
There will be more on this on the next podcast where I will spend a lot of time talking about how to set correct goals and not set yourself up for failure.