🎯 Many of us are taught to set goals. While there is room for goals, simply setting a goal is never enough. Focusing on building missions that move us towards a goal is much more actionable.
🎯 Goals focus on results.
🚀 Missions focus on objectives.
▶ Example > Goal: Lose 11 lbs.
▶ Mission > Objective: Learn to eat right.
🚫The problem with goals is that they don't tell you how to reach them or what to do when accomplishing the expected result. In the example above, several people can focus on losing 11 lbs at once by sheer willpower, but when it passes, the weight comes back.
✅ On the other hand, missions, for example, such as the mission that focuses on the objectives of "how to learn to eat right" and the one of "doing aerobic exercises", help you to focus on the main activities or routines that move you to get where you want. Once those key activities turn into habits, you hit your goals and overcome them.
📶 The best way, is to use goals to estimate the desired result and missions to formulate the main steps to reach the goal.
✨ You still need to scale your goal because the effort required to lose 11 lbs is quite different compared to the commitment to lose 44 lbs, but once an approximate goal is set, like losing 11 lbs, for example, does it matter if you lose 12 lbs or 10 lbs?
👍 Instead, focus your energy on building missions/visions (with goals) to help you reach your desired results in a more perennial way.
Text super adapted by Ash Maurya
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