8 Benefits of Goal Setting

What are the benefits of goal setting? Well, perhaps you are someone who already carefully analyses your situation, sets your goals, then gets on with achieving them. Or, perhaps you agree that goal setting is a useful notion but never seem to get around to doing it. Perhaps worse still, you just don't see there are any benefits to be had in taking the time and effort to set goals. Why bother?

We think one way to motivate yourself to set goals is to think more closely about the benefits this activity may bring you.

Here, to start you off, we suggest eight benefits of goal setting.

Hopefully they may do three things. Firstly, they may help you to address the value of setting goals. Secondly, they may prompt you to take action. Finally, they may just help you to achieve your goals.

Eight Benefits of Goal Setting

After thinking about these you may come up with some of your own, but in the meanwhile, here are some of our thought provokers. Setting meaningful goals should bring:

Clearer Focus - properly thought out and stated, goals clearly set out your intentions and desires; the things you really want to achieve;

Optimum Use of Resources - there are never enough resources to do everything so setting goals can help you to prioritise. Place your resources behind what you really want to do, rather than on things you are doing by default or by deflection;

Effective Use of Time - of course time is a resource, but it deserves special consideration because it is so important. As Peter Drucker says: "If you want to improve how you manage time - stop doing what doesn't need to be done!";

Peace of Mind - too often you can have many things on your mind. Writing down your goals can help you take all of those ideas, apply perspective and priority, then galvanize you into commitment and action;

Clarity to Decision Making - knowing what you are trying to do means that you can now ask: "does this activity get me closer to my goal?";

Easier Measurement of What You Do - setting goals, especially SMART and SHARP goals, allows you to measure how well effectively you are moving towards achieving them;

More Freedom of Thought - setting goals can help to release your creative energies so you can focus on how to achieve them. You'll start to look for ways to make it happen;

Easier Communication with Others - setting goals enables you to clarify with other people what you are trying to do, and therefore what they need to do to contribute or support.

How Will You Benefit?

Take some time now to think about what benefits you would gain from goal setting. How might they motivate you to start achieving them? After thinking through our eight benefits of goal setting, it might also be worthwhile thinking about both the kind of goals you set, and on how you set them.

In our article Why is Goal Setting Important, we have asked what kind of goals are more likely to make you happier. Goals per se do not necessarily lead you to happiness, only certain types. Secondly, in our article SMART Goals we suggest a particular variant of the acronym that focuses on setting goals that are challenging and specific, and are more likely to motivate you to achieve them. How do you get the benefits of goal setting? It's far more likely when your goals are specific, challenging, and related to the things that really make you happy.

If you want to read more about why goal setting is important, see our range of goal setting information articles or read our goal setting quotes for more quotes similar to those used in the article.

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