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Maybe you're not setting the right goals - for the right reasons. Maybe you need HARD goals - as in heartfelt, animated, required and difficult. That acronym, from Leadership IQ President Mark Murphy's book of the same name, makes a case that the best goals come with emotional attachments. "The heartfelt piece comes first. If that's not there, it's hard to make the rest of the goal work," said Murphy.
Making the goal difficult means you're setting a high standard for achievement. "They were big. They were scary. They were out of our comfort zone," he said. And they produced some amazing results, whether you're losing 35 pounds or creating jobs for 21 women in Detroit or Delhi or seeing your photos in a major museum exhibit. Some may be 10-year goals or lifetime goals - not something you're going to achieve in a year.
Murphy thinks most corporate goal-setting is far too perfunctory - and doesn't allow enough room for passion and amazingly positive results. When I spoke to him for a Washington Post Capital Business article last year, he told how he took up running even though he has "zero natural running ability" because of his health goals and his wife's interest. He sets plenty of business goals too - but those are fueled by passion and keen interest.
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