The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Write down your goals. Only three percent of people have written goals and only one percent review those written goals daily. Be in that elite one percent. Visualize the attainment of your goals often. Goals are dreams with dates attached. You will only become as great and as happy as the goals you choose.
Let us recap the goal setting steps
Step 1) Write your Goals down in a Journal / Diary.
Step 2) for each one of your goals write a paragraph as to why you want to achieve that goal.
Step 3) Identify the obstacles you need to overcome to reach that goal.
Step 4) Ask what you need to know in order to reach your goal.
Step 5) Identify the people you need to work with in order to achieve your goals.
Step 6) Devise a specific plan of action.
Step 7) finally put today’s date on each of your goals and then the date you aim to achieve your goal(s).
Now focus on the contribution you can make
Ask yourself these three simple questions at the end of each day
1) Did my actions today take me closer to achieving my goal or further away?
2)What was the one positive thing I noticed today?
3)What am I looking forward to tomorrow?
Goal setting techniques are used by top-level athletes, successful business-people and achievers in all fields. They give you long-term vision and short-term motivation. They focus your acquisition of knowledge and help 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. You can see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. By setting goals, you will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognize your ability and competence in achieving the goals that you have set.
If you have followed the goal setting steps may I take this moment to congratulate you and wish you every success in the future.
