Goal Setting
Learn how to set goals and do it often. Setting, and, achieving goals is one of the most powerful and exhilarating self development activities you can do for yourself and your personal growth.
You accomplish goals every single day of your life. You do it unconsciously; we all do. A simple task of making a cup of coffee is a completed goal. Simple but the nonetheless a completed goal.
But what about big goals? Why should you set big goals? I believe you should set three types of goals; short term, mid term and of course long term. Short term goals could be things you need to accomplish within hours or weeks. Mid term goals are those things which will take months and long term goals would include matters to be completed over years.
The time you set on completing goals is relative. The important thing is that you “set personal goals.” Setting goals is a like constructing a road map for your life’s success. It adds structure, purpose and a plan for your personal development.
We all need goals to help and keep us moving forward in a positive direction in life. For the most part we walk through life completing goals, much of the time unconsciously, but we have a direction in mind because it’s pretty much loosely defined within us.
But setting “solid”, specific and challenging personal goals is a “goal” you should commit to right now. By doing so you will enhance your quality of life, self esteem, belief system and ability to reach your full potential in every thing you do. Read more in this article from Mindtools about personal goal setting.
How To Set Personal Goals
Many people feel as if they’re adrift in the world. They work hard, but they don’t seem to get anywhere worthwhile.
A key reason that they feel this way is that they haven’t spent enough time thinking about what they want from life, and haven’t set themselves formal goals. After all, would you set out on a major journey with no real idea of your destination? Probably not!
Goal setting is a powerful process for thinking about your ideal future, and for motivating yourself to turn your vision of this future into reality.
The process of setting goals helps you choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to achieve, you know where you have to concentrate your efforts. You’ll also quickly spot the distractions that can, so easily, lead you astray.
Why Set Goals?Goal setting is used by top-level athletes, successful business-people and achievers in all fields. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses your acquisition of knowledge, and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the very most of your life.
By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals, and you’ll see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. You will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognize your own ability and competence in achieving the goals that you’ve set.
Starting to Set Personal Goals
You set your goals on a number of levels:
First you create your “big picture” of what you want to do with your life (or over, say, the next 10 years), and identify the large-scale goals that you want to achieve.
Then, you break these down into the smaller and smaller targets that you must hit to reach your lifetime goals.
Finally, once you have your plan, you start working on it to achieve these goals.
This is why we start the process of goal setting by looking at your lifetime goals. Then, we work down to the things that you can do in, say, the next five years, then next year, next month, next week, and today, to start moving towards them. Continue Reading Full Article
Setting Goals
Remember, when you learn how to set goals and get in the habit of consistently achieving them; it translates over into every facet of your life. Your self motivation and confidence will rise to a level you didn’t know was possible.
It’s very important to set small, short term goals daily and complete them. There’s no better feeling then completing a goal. Getting that sense of success and achievement from completing small goals enables you to complete mid term and long term goals easier. The bottom line is you have to take action. Chris Farrell is a big believer in this and stresses this often in his, “Having the correct mindset” teachings.
Success with anything comes in small doses so start right where you are with something small. Each success will encourage you to continue onto the next challenging goal. And, before you know it you will have accomplished something astounding. Get started now by writing down three things you know you need to do in the next two days. You can read more in the post I wrote about how you can do anything you want.
Also, get your free Goal Setting Worksheet here.
Stay focused and Stay faithful. I wish you every good thing.
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