Goal Setting

Let me share with you a story. Just a short span of three years ago, my career goal was to retire comfortably in my public housing apartment, not to rock the boat or shake things up. I wanted to be a civil servant and get my pension at the end of it.

Fast forward to three years later, I’m now an entrepreneur and an intrapreneur working from home, as well as a platform speaker helping to bring people into personal development and intraprenuership courses.

I’m going to share with you the three biggest mistakes of setting career goals. The first is not being in the right career in the first place. The second is not knowing your personality and the third is not thinking big enough. Let me elaborate further all on each of the three biggest mistakes.

What do I mean by not being in the right career? In the groundbreaking book known as “Ready, fire, aim” by Michael Masterson, he says that there are actually two types employees, the entrepreneur or the intrapreneur. If you’re able to employ an entrepreneur it means that you have caught the entrepreneur in a very low time in his life and he needs money to tide him over. He will leave in no time. But if you were to employ an intraapreneur, then you are in luck.

What does this mean for you? Discover for yourself, within yourself, who are you? Are you entrepreneur or intrapreneur or simply a civil servant who just wait for his time to be over?

I really hope that you’re not the third option. If you are an entrepreneur, are you setting your career goals on the right track? Do you want to work for somebody else for the rest of your life? Do you want to be compensated fully for your ideas and feel that you should be in full control of your life and given full credit for whatever ideas you put forth?

Are you an intrapreneur who prefers to have the backing of a solid company and allow them to take a big proportion of your credit for your idea but have the security of having a paycheck every month? With that, you would be able to find for yourself what the right career is.

The second biggest mistake is not knowing your personality. In the Myers-Briggs personality test, I found that I am known as an INFP. These terms may confuse you but in simple words it means that I am someone who is idealistic and would work in the personal development field.

Once you know your personality, you can then tailor your career to suit yourself so that when you achieve greatness in your career you’ll feel so aligned with who you are. This would give you so much more job satisfaction.

Setting career goals is not just about finding the career that everybody loves and everybody talks about and being good in it. Setting career goals means knowing what you want, knowing who you are and going full force into achieving what you set out to do.

The third biggest mistake to setting career goals is not thinking big enough. As I said before, three years ago, all I thought about was to retire from my civil service job and lead a comfortable life with the family. But what I didn’t realize is that with the technology of Neuro Linguistic Programming, a very popular success technology, setting career goals for me became a high when I set my goals.

The reason is because I destroyed all by limiting beliefs using the technology of Neuro Linguistic Programming and was able to find for myself what my talent is and what resources were available to me to skyrocket myself to success.

So there you have it, the three biggest mistake of setting career goals. Do not make the same mistake I’ve made three years ago and waste precious time. Know that you are in the right career by finding out for yourself if you’re an entrepreneur or intrapreneur. Know your personality so that when you do achieve greatness, you are aligned with you are. Begin to think big so that when you start setting career goals, you’ll believe that you can achieve greatness and sooner or later, you will begin to achieve it.