Achieving Without Goals

[BlueTurtle]

"working without goals" means nothing.

I'm sure everyone wants to get better.....so that is a goal.

and make more money....another goal.

and not have such a set goal that it blinds them from what is changing in the markets.

ok, my goal is 1 billion by noon.

or, 10,000 ES contracts by next week.

oh.....so now I need "other" goals that, to you, are more reasonable.

there is one simple RULE, not a goal per se........make more money then you need to live on.

then you have have goals like running 100 billion next year....

 

[Eight]

Quote from smallStops:

I think it depends.

On "human performance development", I think it is absolutely necessary,.

On business goals, I think it should be based on past performance - aka within 75% of mean of past data samples.

On research goals ( here we are talking creativity), numerical goals can be counterproductive, specifically when soft aspects ( quality, new idea,...) are key.

Research can be utterly open-ended. You don't know if you will ever be done. You don't know that, when you get done, you will know you are done. Doing research to a schedule is just not going to work. It doesn't happen in a time realm.