Popular motivational speaker Jim Rohn once 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.”
No one ever said goal setting is easy. Each goal you want to achieve starts as a thought - so take some time to think about it. Make sure that the goal you’ve thought of makes sense for the situation you’re in, or the chances are, you’ll never achieve it.
The steps below are an outline for you - remember to keep it simple!
Your steps to making goal setting easy:
1. Set Realistic Goals - You know your limits, push them slightly.
2. Define Your Objectives - Attention to detail is critical.
3. Put your tasks in order - One thing at a time.
4. Define Your Time Frame - Give yourself time to achieve, but not slack.
5. Cross the finish line - Traveling the road is pointless without getting to your destination.
Give Yourself Realistic Goals
Deciding what your personal, financial, and business goals are take a lot of consideration from you. Think about what you might want or need to accomplish and write things down while you do it - even if you don’t think it’s an important detail, it could be an important part in your final goals later down the road.
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.” - A quote by 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’re setting yourself up for failure. Be sure you can comfortably challenge yourself with your goals. That’s not to say you should make it easy on yourself!
Write a List of Supporting Tasks
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 honest with yourself about what you have to do in order to accomplish your goals. Make sure you know exactly what you’ll be willing to sacrifice in order to see your goals through. Keep your goals in order of which is most important - first at the top - and only focus on that before you move onto the next!
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.
FINISH
Besides actually getting your goal on paper, this is absolutely the most critical step - and the one that most people fail with. If you can’t finish, you will unfortunately never get to your goals. If one of your goals is to lose 15 pounds, you can’t let yourself to stop at 14. If your goal is to get an A on your final exam or get a raise at your job, don’t stop until you’ve got what you wanted!
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