About NOT working efficiently on the wrong goals in 2022!

Are you also too good at working on some wrong goals?

It feels a bit arbitrary, but a switch to a new year helps many of us zoom out.

On a personal level, I found it helps me tackle a nasty pattern: On the one hand, I tend to become efficient in the detailed tasks of every-day life. Yet, I rarely take the time to consider whether I am moving towards the RIGHT goals in the first place.

Here’s a truth that’s hard to deny:

There is nothing more unproductive than working on the WRONG thing.

And here I am, declaring a BIG personal victory.

Over the last 3 days, I have accomplished something which I have procrastinated on for the last 6 (!) years: I built a very first 5-year plan that finally combines professional and personal ambitions.

It was HARD!

I love working in the detail. Defining these long-term professional and personal goals, then breaking them down into sub-goals for years, then defining some first quarterly, monthly, weekly and daily goals took gruelling HOURS.

And it opened my eyes!

I now see the sheer imbalance in some of my priorities. I see where there is a clear (duh!) disconnect between short-term activities and long-term goals.

I see where I have been working efficiently towards some wrong goals.

And: I am excited about 2022!

I wish for YOU to also put all your energies into the RIGHT goals…those that matter most!

The key question is: What are those RIGHT goals for you?

Happy New Year 2022!!