UPDATING THE GOAL STRIVING META-PROGRAM

How do you go about setting goals and then striving to make them real? That question is the elicitation question for the Goal Striving Meta-Program number 40. It is obviously an important meta-program for coaches. You will want to know how any given client sets and strives to complete goals.

In 1997 I conceptualized this one meta-program as a continuum between skeptic and perfectionism with optimization in the middle. Optimizing is the ideal way. People who conatively filter their choice about how to go after and strive for a goal by optimizing are more successful in goal setting and achieving. Here’s the description that I wrote in the 2009 edition of Figuring Out People.