How To Set Goals For Life
Famous speaker Jim Rohn said, "If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. What ever good things we build end up building us."
Goal setting is indeed a tricky task. Every goal you wish to achieve has to begin as a thought. So the first step is to think. Evaluate your overall situation and define your goals.
The steps below are an outline for you - remember to keep it simple!
Your steps to making goal setting easy:
1. Give yourself realistic goals - Bring yourself up to your limits, then push yourself closer.
2. Write a list of supporting tasks - The more details here, the better.
3. Put your tasks in order - One thing at a time.
4. Do you have a set time? - Without a scheduled date, you'll be nowhere fast.
5. Follow Through - What good does an unaccomplished goal do for you?
Give Yourself Realistic Goals
Figuring out your personal, financial, educational or business goals take a lot of thought on your part. Consider what you want to accomplish and journal notes along the way - even if you think it's a small detail, it could be a critical part in your decision making later on.
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it." - Henry Ford.
Take a couple days at at least to think it over. If you watch a carpenter work, he'll say "measure twice, cut once." If they don't measure twice and then cut too short, the project will take longer to finish because they didn't make the right measurements in the first place. They have to use extra wood, extra time remeasuring, all making the goal more difficult to reach.
If you set your goals too high, you might be setting yourself up to fail. You want to challenge yourself with the goal, but give yourself enough slack so you don't get disappointed - all without making it too easy on yourself!
Define Your Objectives
Give yourself clear and defined goals plus subgoals. Make sure you have time set aside for each goal when you're writing out your plan. You should also by this time have clear notes about how you'll reach each goal and subgoal.
Make Sure Everything is in Order
Be very clear with yourself about what you must do to reach your goals. Take great notes. Make lists of what you're willing to give up to turn your goals into a reality. Decide which goal is most important to you and put it at the top of your list. The tasks needed to reach that goal are now your number one and only priority. Once you reach that first goal, move the next one up the list!
Set a Time
Exactly as it suggests. Define your time frame. Give yourself an achievable limit. You don't want to be sitting there 15 years from now wishing you'd stayed on track! Only you can decide when you want to achieve your goals, and only you can make yourself succeed in achieving them. Like step-one, Set Realistic Goals, you have to set a realistic time frame for each goal. Remember, challenge yourself, but don't make it so difficult that you give up.
Cross The Finish Line
Besides thinking and mental planning, this is probably the most important step. If you don't follow through, you aren't going to achieve your goals. You can't let yourself give up on you! If your goal is to lose 20 pounds, you can't allow yourself to stop at 19. If your goal is to ace the big test coming up or get a promotion at work, don't stop until you've achieved it!
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