The Power of Goal Setting

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Setting goals is an essential part of achieving success, whether it be in personal or professional endeavours. Rog and Kim discuss the importance of setting goals and achieving dreams, sharing their personal experiences and insights.

Hosts, Kim and Rog, emphasise the idea that achieving big dreams starts with setting small goals and being clear about what you want and how you plan to achieve it. They define goals as part of the process towards achieving one’s dreams and emphasise that living one’s dreams is the ultimate goal. They encourage listeners to pursue their own goals by setting achievable objectives and breaking them down into smaller, more manageable tasks.

Be positive and be prepared to sacrifice

One crucial factor in successful goal-setting, according to Kim and Rog, is to set goals from a positive standpoint rather than a punishment mentality. Punishment goals, such as losing weight to earn the right to go out with friends, can be demotivating and ineffective. Instead, setting specific, positive goals can give people direction and a framework to work within.

Kim and Rog emphasise that goals are not just about achieving something; they are also about being willing to endure pain and sacrifice to achieve that goal. They discuss the unspoken side of goal-setting, which involves giving up something to achieve a desired outcome. In their personal experience of training for a marathon, they had to sacrifice nights out with friends and endure pain and injury to achieve their goal. However, their perseverance paid off, and they successfully completed the marathon.

Kim and Rog 2022 Goal Review

The hosts also share insights into some of their personal goals, which they set for themselves with flexibility and achievable objectives in mind. Their first goal was to spend meaningful time together as a couple. This goal was not very specific, but they found different ways of achieving it, for example by taking 30 minutes to eat lunch together by the river or finding other short moments to connect with each other.

Another goal was to have their household functionally organized. They defined this as wanting everything in the house to have a home. To achieve this goal, they bought a large shed and identified areas where they could put more cupboards. They set a timeline for the goal and broke it down into smaller achievable goals. This goal helped them to make their house more functional and better organized, which, in turn, helped them to spend better quality time on needle movers such as time together, time with their daughter and time on their business.