Goal Setting: Be comfortable not knowing everything

Goal Setting: Be comfortable not knowing everything

When people goal set, they often feel it is necessary to break things down to the minutest detail. There seems to be a common misunderstanding that you have to know everything in full detail before you can start undertaking your goal.

While there is merit in analysing your goals and working out what you need to do; if you take this to far you will never get your goal off the ground. The most important step that you can take is to take action!!!

The fact is, we don’t know everything, and we never will know everything. Rather than fight this, we need to accept it and get on with our lives. Things do happen, they can appear bad at first but may end up been good; or they can appear good and easy and may end up been bad. We never know. But we can take action to find out.

For the majority of our lives we have been designed to learn through failure. We didn’t learn to walk through knowing everything about walking; we learnt through trail and error, and getting out there and having a go.

Trial and error is the easiest way to achieve out goals. So get out there and take action. If you don’t take action you could potentially think yourself out of your goal, or worse still, never get started.

In other Views...

Your editor and his wife went up to the top of Mount Dandenong, a Mountain on the outskirts of Melbourne, on the weekend. There is an observation deck, and a restaurant on the top called sky high.

Being a warm and clear day the place was bustling with people like us, hoping to enjoy the sunlight and the view.

The kids had a great time. There is a hedge maze and also other entertainment and gardens to run around.

As we were walking up the stairs we noticed a bus load of tourists. After watching them for a minute or two, we noted something funny. Not only were they video taping the view, they actually had people video taping the people who were video taping the view. It was like a second degree of separation from nature!!!

Your editor pictured them going back home and showing the video tape of the view and saying, see I was really there, this is me video taping the view!!!

We have made a vow never to travel with a video camera.

Cheers

Andrew Collings