Achieving goals is the foundation to a successful life whether tose goals are to provide adequately for your family or build a business each has their foundation in goal setting and achievement. You can find the technique that I have taught for over 25 years at In The Footsteps of Giants it could be the solution to what you seek in your life.
Personal goal setting is not only carried out by mega successful people, we all set goals every day whether we realize it or not so those daily goals can simply be expanded to major life changing goals in 3 easy steps. When you see them you will say 'I can do that!' So Come on >>>>>
Over 90% of people who say they never set goals are surprised when it is pointed out that simply goal setting could be deciding what you are going to wear that day or where you are going to go, they have the same basic structure as deciding how you want to live your life.
Setting personal goals can be a short cut to success, it is definitely one of the most powerful and effective techniques that will not only help you attain your goal but also to feel successful.
You don't set goals? Instead of thinking only of life changing goals let us look at goal setting from a different angle. Have you ever booked a holiday? That is a goal - the steps to successful life goa setting is exactly the same as those you took in planning your last holiday, you knew where you wanted to go and knowing that you knew what you had to do to get there.
Let's break this down into steps to explore how going on holiday is equivalent in goal setting terms to whatever major goal you could wish for yourself.
1. In order to set a goal you need to know where you want to end up, what you really want. Remembering the story of Alice through the looking glass when she tumbled down the path and stopped at a crossroads, not knowing which road to take she looked up and saw the Cheshire Cat, she asked him which road to take, he replied "Where do you want to go?" "I don't know," said Alice "Then it does not matter which road you take", the cat grinned. You knew exactly where you wanted to end up when you planned your last holiay and what happend you got there! You got there. If only you looked that way at the rest of your life and realised just how many goals you set each day that are successfully accomplished because you know where you want to end up and plan to get there.
2. I don't know about you but I find I remember things best when I write them down I think it is called motorised learning or something like that. So when I write my goals down I remember them and I am able to repeat them over and over in my mind. When I do a strange thing happens, things happen that help drive me and my actions towards my goals and I achieve each one. Here is something different - 'Do not set a time limit for your goal'. You see if I have a deadline I get stressed out as the time approaches and goal achievement does not happen if you are stressed, to achieve the goals just see below.
3. There is a major secret to successful goal setting and achievement. This secret is so great I do not want you to tell anyone else it is only between you and me. In setting a goal I know it will never come about unless I follow this secret, the secret to successful goal planning and achievement is ----- wait for it ----- to take ACTION. So many people say they want to do something and then do nothing in the hope that a magic genie will appear and make their dreams come true. The difference between a dreamer and one who fantasises is a dreamer dreams and then takes action to make the dream happen one who fantasises, dreams and does nothing but dream.
As long as you bear these simple steps in mind you will achieve your goals although there are another two magic ingredients that when you add them to this mix guarantees that you will achieve every goal you ever set no matter how big, and how far outside of your present comfort zone, but that is for another day or if you cannot wait you could click on the link in the box below to find out.
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