Setting Goals That You Can Achieve
The setting of goals, and then working hard and smart to achieve them, is a significant habit that separates the 5% of people who are in successful in life from the 95% who are not. If you are in that 95% then do not give up, as there is nothing inherently wrong with you, it is just a case of never having been properly educated in goal setting.
Note the part about working hard and smart, as it is critical. Of the 95% of people who are not winners, lots of them may well set goals, but that is all they do, they just set them and then forget about them.
Even setting goals and working hard is not enough, as no matter how high your level of passion, desire or commitment is, you may well not be focusing your energies in the right direction, and mis-directed energy is mostly wasted energy.
So, it is time to evaluate yourself. Firstly, are you setting goals? Secondly, are you working hard?, Thirdly, are you working smart?
Should you have answered ‘no’ to any of those questions, then it is time to change your approach. It is also time to change your approach if you answered ‘yes’ to all of them, but things are still not working out for you, as you must be either setting the wrong type of goals, not be working hard enough, or not be working smart enough.
You should seriously consider adopting the 10 point ‘Mental Management Goal-Setting System’ that was set out in a book (”With Winning In Mind – An Olympic Champion’s Success System”) written by Lanny Bassham, who is a 3 times World Champion & Olympic Gold Medalist. An summary of that system is as follows…
1) Know exactly what it is that you want to achieve.
2) Decide when you want it.
3) Establish what you stand to gain from it.
4) Prepare for the likely obstacles that you will come across.
5) Evaluate what achieving it will also take away from you, such as time, money or people.
6) Write an overall action plan.
7) Create a daily routine / timetable based on your overall plan of action.
Start right now, not next week, month or year.
9) Have a succession of future goals lined to be achieved after the first one.
10) Never stop until you have achieved what you set out to do.
This system has worked for others, and so it can work for you too. By implementing it and sticking to it, you can achieve everything that you want to, and can become part of the elite 5% of people who are successful.
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Posted on January 12, 2010
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