Goals are great for helping success and achievement. The potential down side to this outcome is the abuse of goals for the wrong purpose. Specific cultural pressures and personal ambitions and desires highlight people pursuing goals only to fit in and move up a specific social ladder or fulfill the needs to be liked and respected. This sensitive sign goes deep into the original purpose and reasons for the actual goal itself.

Question yourself why you are pursuing the goal and have a specific goal. If the reason points towards an emotional feeling of achievement by being accepted by a perceived social group then you are likely to have some addictive traits in your behavior.

4. People cool off to your mood swings

Have you been blowing hot and cold recently? Are you sure? Do you find most other people do not understand why your goal is so important? Have you needed to jump a queue or over take someone or skip an action so that your goal is attained but had to yell some common sense into others to do it?