135: "Just See It" How to See Goals the Harvard Business School Way - Part 3/5 (Achieve Professional Success) - a podcast by Jason W. Womack MEd, MA

Do you know what success would look like? Do yourself a huge favor, and spend 15 minutes today (before you fall asleep tonight) writing down goals, ideas, milestones and outcomes for you, your life and your career. The time span on this doesn’t matter; it could be for this week, this month, this job, or this lifetime. After you spend 15 minutes thinking about this, listen to the podcast one more time.

Be different, see different.

There are two things you need to do, if you want to experience more “Success.” And, no, I’m not going to serve up the obvious one. You know what most people say, right? I can’t tell you HOW many beginning life coaches, mentors or even friends I’ve talked to who say, “Jason, I need to be more clear with my goals. Will you help with a goal-setting, strategy session?"

Did you know that researchers at Harvard Business School have actually proven that simply identifying - no matter HOW clearly you do it - a goal is NOT the most important thing to do to achieve more. I found a couple of pieces of research on this, and have been reading up on it over the past year or so. In fact, later in this year in the GET MOMENTUM coaching program, we’re going to study for an entire month this aspect of Better Goal Setting. I’ve seen too many professionals ruin their careers by setting the wrong goals.

Here are the two things I look for - and generally find - every day. Sure, I have a general direction I’m heading in, but I’m smart enough (or is that I’m old enough?) to know this: Between now and then…Things will change. Over the past two decades of studying leadership, self talk and productivity, I continue to find examples of how the goal people originally set out to experience is affected by both space and time.

Ok, so here are the two things I look for every day, you want to write them down?

1. I look to see other people having fun.

2. I look to see a place to do things differently.

All right, in this episode of the podcast, I talk just a little bit about each one of those things I look for.

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