In the pursuit of success, setting goals and adapting to changes are two crucial points. However, how to find a balance between these two points is a question that confuses many people.

Goals are like beacons.

From the perspective of enterprise development, if an Internet start-up company sets the purpose of providing convenient social services from the beginning, then it can concentrate on building platform functions and attract corresponding target users.

Take dieters as an example. If they set a weight goal of losing 20 pounds, they can arrange their diet and exercise plan accordingly.

So that all aspects of the plan will not be clueless.

Goals give people direction.

Scientific researchers are committed to solving difficult problems in treating specific diseases. Every time they conduct an experiment and every time they collect data, they are working towards this goal.

When students set the goal of being admitted to a well-known university, they will pay more attention in their daily studies.

The situation changes at any time.

In the e-commerce industry, Company A originally focused on selling physical goods. However, with the changes of the times, especially the rise of live broadcast sales, it must update its business strategy and expand the business scope of live broadcast sales.

This cannot be covered by the original goal and requires flexibility.

Being flexible allows you to seize opportunities.

Taking the tourism industry as an example, April to October is the peak period for tourism, and many tourism companies plan to focus on promoting tourism products at popular attractions.

If during a certain period of time, an unpopular tourist attraction becomes popular due to an internet celebrity checking in, if you can cleverly adjust the tour route, you will have the opportunity to seize this opportunity and increase your income.

Both are used in business.

If it is a catering company, their vision is to become the most popular Chinese restaurant in the local area. To achieve this vision, they constantly optimize their dishes and improve service quality.

If you encounter a shortage of ingredients or a new dish becomes popular, you need to flexibly adjust the menu content or supply methods.

The same is true for learning.

A student's goal is to learn a foreign language well.

The ideal state is to learn textbook knowledge step by step.

If you have the opportunity to go abroad for exchange, you need to adjust your study plan in a timely manner to better integrate into the foreign language environment.

Reasonability of goals is important.

In the sports world, if someone sets a person with mediocre physical fitness to become a gymnastics champion within a month, such a goal is obviously unrealistic. Such goals are worthless.

To set reasonable goals, you need to consider personal circumstances, including factors such as physical condition and training duration.

Businesses should consider this when setting goals.

It would be too unrealistic for a newly established small manufacturing company to set an annual sales target that exceeds that of the industry leader.

Full consideration must be given to actual conditions such as funds, manpower, and market demand.

Personal development.

Professionals originally planned to steadily advance in their company, but when the company's business conditions suddenly change, they need to make flexible changes based on their personal goals, such as switching to companies in the same industry with growth potential.

In terms of product development.

The software company initially focused on creating desktop office software. However, as mobile devices became widely popular, it quickly adjusted its strategy and shifted some of its R&D resources to the development of mobile applications.

In the long run.

Take the traditional retail industry as an example. If the goal is always to sell in physical stores and if it does not keep up with the trend of online shopping and make adjustments, its competitiveness will gradually weaken in the long run.

If we can establish the development goal of integrating online and offline as early as possible and flexibly adjust our strategies based on market dynamics, our future will be more stable and reliable.

In the short term.

If fitness enthusiasts have set weekly exercise goals and encounter emergencies such as illness, they should adjust short-term goals in a timely manner to avoid affecting the smooth progress of the overall fitness plan.

I would like to ask you, how do you deal with the relationship between goal setting and adaptability in your work or life?

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