How To Realize and Achieve Your Goals
   

While your goal may seem daunting, realizing and achieving it is not. It is easier than you think. Follow these simple steps and your goal will be achieved before you know it.

Step one is to define your goals. Consider everything, even if it seems totally out of reach at this time. Let your imagination be the limit. What would you do if you had more time? What do you want to accomplish in the next five, or ten, or twenty years of life? What do you regret about the last five, or ten, or twenty years? Make your goals concrete, and with set time limits. It is much easier to accomplish something if you know exactly what it is and when you want to do it. For example, instead of saying lose weight, say lose ten pounds by June 1st.

Step two is to identify the importance of your goals. What are your personal values? Which goals are therefore the most important to you? Why are they important? What are the obstacles to achieving them? Then rank them from most important to the least important. While you might not be able to rank your goals one through ten, you can assign them a position – number one goals are very important, number two goals are only moderately important, and number three goals are not very important to you. After each goal write the obstacles. What is stopping you? Do you need something that you do not already have? Why have you not reached this goal already? Be perfectly honest with yourself – this is how you can identify your problem areas and overcome them.

Step three is to write out your plans on how to overcome your problems. What do you need to do to move on past the obstacle? What in our life needs changing? Maybe in identifying your weight loss goal you realized that you did not have shoes or the time to take up jogging. A plan could look like this: 1. Rent videos this month instead of going to the theater. 2. Use money saved to buy a new pair of running shoes. 3. Set alarm for 30 minutes earlier and go for a jog. Now you have a concrete plan that you can mark the items off of as the objectives are completed. Make a plan for each of your goals. Depending on the difficulty of the goal, there might be two or three steps or there might be twenty. Either way is fine as long as you can come up with a solution to your personal obstacles.

Step four is to break your goals down into manageable steps with time limits. One huge goal will seem daunting and prevent you from ever getting started. The new pieces should be smaller accomplishments that will help you achieve your main goal and have set timelines. In our weight loss instance, if you say you have five weeks to lose the ten pounds, your new goals will be to lose two pounds by May 4th, May 11th, May 18th, May 25th, and June 1st. Two pounds a week is a smaller goal, and may seem more manageable, but it still helps you achieve your larger goal of losing ten pounds by June 1st. Stick to the timeline. If you can, find someone else who can help keep you accountable. Some goals, like losing weight or stopping smoking, are actually easier to achieve when you use a buddy system. For items that you are working alone on, it may be easier to find a way to highlight them in your calendar, such as circling them with red marker or using a bright-colored ink to write them out.

Step five is to celebrate your successes and continuing planning ahead. Take time out to celebrate when you meet your smaller goals as well as when you make your overall one. It does not have to be anything in particular as a reward, as long as it is something you enjoy. It can be as simple as taking a couple hours out of your day, or if you have reached a big goal, taking a small vacation. Do not forget to go back and check on your larger goal often. How are you doing overall? Do you need to make some adjustments in your process? Maybe you have achieved your goal – is that it? Or now that you have lost those 10 pounds is your goal to keep it off and start a long-term exercise program? By now you should be well on your road to success.

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