Telling someone your goals makes them less likely to happen

Telling someone your goals makes them less likely to happen

Ted talk

After watching this video I’ve changed my mind about the decisions I make.

It’s a good point actually, because when I look back I realize, that every time I told somebody about my goals and they supported me I never succeed in them or even tried to do something to make them real. I thought that if they support me, then I have already achieved my goal. So I just gave up on halfway there. But the goals I’ve never told anyone about became real and it’s shocking.

So why is it like that? Every time we tell somebody about our goals we think that we achieved them. People who we told our goals ask about them every day, support you, offer you some help and you start to lose your motivation. But when we didn’t tell them anything, they start to see results and that’s when they notice it.

There’s this quote that I like «Work in silence, let your success be your noise». If you think deeply, you’ll see that it’s simple and effective. When you don’t talk about your goals people don’t know about them, so you start to work harder and harder for them to notice and when they notice you are so proud of yourself. But it’s not enough for you, then you start to want more and more. And that’s really amazing.

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