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In the workplace, you’ll meet two kinds of people, those who are easy to please and those who are hard to please. The former will make you feel good about yourself, the latter will push you to greater achievements. The former can make you complacent, and the latter can drain you of your energy and motivation.

Oh, don’t forget, the person you have the closest contact with in the workplace is YOU. Are you easy to please or are you hard to please? Do you set low standards that are laughably easy to achieve or do you set high standards that are ridiculously difficult to achieve? Is your goal setting predictably low, or predictably high?

Start with awareness of how you are measuring yourself. Sometimes the task is new or complex, and setting goals is hard. Devote your energies to finding out what it takes to set a goal, then set a reasonable goal followed by a stretch goal.

The “pleasing” part refers to the thoughts, feelings, and emotion that accompanies the goal setting.