Setting and Achieving Goals

bycwelliver

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7 years ago

We all must set goals in our lives if we desire to be successful. The problem is goal setting is not easy, as a matter of fact very few people really can set and achieve specific goals, nost people go through their lives just wandering from task to task, job to job, and have never really planned out our future.

The problem is truly that we are not taught how to achieve our goals, if you asked 100 people if they were ever taught how to set goals during their formal education, elementary school, junior hign school, high school, or college i would bet you that nearly 95% would tell you "no".

It is for that reason that I was so inclined to go over the seven steps to achhieving your life's goals.

First and foremost you must identify or define your goals.

Second you must have a good enough reason for achieving the goal, the old, "What's in it for me?" mentality, after all all decisions that we make in our lives are motivated either by our desire to increase pleasure, or to avoid pain. In other words if we associate enough pleasure with something we are most likely going to be motivated to pursue that, or if we associate enough pain to something we will most likely do whatever is necessary to avoid that. Defining the benefit of any goal will motivate you to accomplish it.

Third, determine what major obstacles stand in the way of you reaching your goal or objective. What things must you overcome in order to be successful?

Fourth do you need to acquire specific knowledge or skills to achieve your goals?

Fifth who are the people, organizations, groups or companies that you would desire to associate with to help you facilitate reaching your goals?

Sixth you need to put in place a plan of action to get you to your goal.

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Seven you need to have a clearly stated completion date in order to measure the goal.

Now of course goals need not be etched in stone, and you need to be flexible, but goals are essential in order to succeed.

Your journey here at Wealthy Affiliate and your success along the way requires that you set some goals for yourself. That you set achievable goals, that can be measured and if need be adjusted along the way. they must of course be achievable, no pie in the sky dreams allowed. Associate great pleasure with achieving your goals, you are learning as you progress through your lessons and the bootcamp the skills necessary, and the courses are laid out in a way to walk you through the steps to success. as you make your way through the program you are gaining the specialized knowledge needed to succeed in your new online venture. Wealthy Affilaite is the premium resource for those hoping to build an online business.

Next of course once you have determined exactly what it is that you want, what you truly want out of your business, out of your life, then you can carefully map out your direction. After all you surely wouldn't attempt to drive from Bangor, Maine to San Diego, California without a map or a GPS, you need directions, you need a plan.

Lastlly in the process as I stated is you need to have a definitive completion date. Cearly defined, so that you can measure your progress along the way.

Now that we have determined how to set goals why is it that so few people do? Well there are a few different reasons. The first of course is the FEAR of Failure. But Fear is simply an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. In other words it is just what we percieve in our minds. This is a major cause for not setting goals in our society.

So I challenge you today, why not sit down with your journal and set some goals, make them long range, where you want to be 1 year, 2 years, 5 years, or 10 years into the future.

Then set some short term achievable goals that as you reach those stepping stones that you can replace them with more short term goals headed toward the long range goals. The key is to take the long range goals and break them down into smaller manageable steps.

For example I was once writing a book, I knew that the book was going to be about 300 pages and it was going to take me about 6 months to complete and my objective was to be done on a specific date and had to write 1.6 pages per day that is a manageable objective.

I hope that you have found this post useful. And here is to your continued success here at Wealthy Affiliate.