Never Reveal Your GOALs

Never Reveal Your GOALs

Social media is saturated with GOALS and DREAMS.  Nothing wrong sharing it in those platforms BUT here's a big BUT.  If you are plotting your major GOALs in life and even before you take the first steps, if you did share it across social media, even if you initially shared it to your close coterie of friends.  Your friends will share it their friends WHO may NOT be your friends.  True, most of them will be sharing it in good faith.  Before you know it, your personal goal you shared to your close coterie of friends has now propagated across multitudes of people whose names you haven't even heard from Adam.  Now, the BIG ASK, what's the fuss if your goal has now spread all over the social media communities?  Not to fuss about it BUT Never Reveal Your GOALs📗📙📘

Now, before I get doubted that I am into double-speak, please allow me to admit that I do WALK THE TALK.  Many years ago, NO ONE, as in NO ONE, and NOT even my loved ones, knew the major GOAL I plotted for the next twelve months.  NOT a knee-jerk reaction to events that may trigger personal decisions, I thoroughly assessed the horizons and I told myself, nope, I DON'T want to spend the next ten years in my home country.  NOT because I fell out of love with my home country and culture BUT rather because I plotted my medium-term career plans.  NOT out of selfishness.  NOT out of non-transparency.  NOT out of ill-intentions.  NOT out of bad faith.  Now, WHO amongst you ever announced a personal goal to lose weight to the world and ended up staying the same OR even gaining more weight than ever❓❓❓

We can even look back to those year-on-year New Year's Resolutions we are all so damn busy right before the New Year kicks in.  Yes, you can think of resolutions as setting goals or setting intentions.  Being satisfied with progress towards our GOAL is associated with positive emotions.  These positive emotions provide the motivation necessary to continue pursuing our GOALs.  Unfortunately, setting a GOAL does NOT always culminate in the desirable changes.  Thus, a critical solution would have to address how to close the gap between the intention and the execution [at work, we call it IMPLEMENTATION].  the demonstrable way to close the gap between intention and implementation is to 'PRIVATIZE' our intentions.  People tend to make their GOALs public , BUT research has shown that publicizing GOALs might jeopardize chances to achieve the GOALs📌📌📌

Researches by experts reveal that when we publicize our GOALs, especially the ones that have to do with our identity, our goal-related performance is compromised.  Ironically, this effect was only found for participants WHO are very committed to their GOAL.  And the experts state that the LESSON LEARNED is that the more passionate you about your GOALs, the more secretive you should be❎❎❎

From a layman like me, the question is, WHY would making our GOALs public reduce the likelihood of achieving them?  Experts explain that making GOALs and any progress toward implementation generate positive rewarding feelings.  In order for these emotions to be motivational until our GOALs are realized, that 'REWARD' has to be time-released.  Dude, for now, keep your GOALs to yourself.  Beat your chest and blow your horns once you achieve it❗❗❗