SolveYourProblem
eLearning Series: Setting Goals
You Can Achieve Any Dream You Desire
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Write
Goals Down
This crystallizes
your goals and gives them more force.
In writing your
goals down, you are better able to keep up with your scheduled
tasks for each accomplishment. It also helps you to remember
each task that needs to be done and allows you to check them
off as they are accomplished.
Basically, you
can better keep track of what you are doing so as not to
repeat yourself unnecessarily.
Keep operational
goals small
Keep the low-level
goals you are working towards small and easy to achieve.
If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not
making progress towards it.
Keeping goals
small and incremental allows you more opportunities for reward.
Derive today's goals from larger ones. It is a great way
to accomplish your goals.
Set performance
goals, not outcome goals
You should take
care to set goals over which you have as much control as
possible. There is nothing more dispiriting than failing
to achieve a personal goal for reasons that are beyond your
control.
These could be
bad business environments, poor judging, bad weather, injury,
or just plain bad luck. If you base your goals on personal
your performance, then you can keep control over the achievement
of your goals and get satisfaction from achieving them.
Set realistic
goals
It is important
to set goals that you can achieve.
All sorts of people
(parents, media, and society) can set unrealistic goals for
you which is almost a guarantee of failure. They will often
do this in ignorance of your own desires and ambitions or
flat out disinterest.
Alternatively
you may be naïve in setting very high goals. You might
not appreciate either the obstacles in the way, or understand
quite how many skills you must master to achieve a particular
level of performance.
By being realistic
you are increasing your chances of success.
Do not
set goals too low
Just as it is
important not to set goals unrealistically high; do not set
them too low. People tend to do this where they are afraid
of failure or where they simply don’t want to do anything.
You should set
goals so that they are slightly out of your immediate grasp,
but not so far that there is no hope of achieving them. No
one will put serious effort into achieving a goal that they
believe is unattainable.
However, remember
that your belief that a goal is unrealistic may be incorrect.
If this could be the case, you can to change this belief
by using imagery effectively.
Achieving
your Goals
When you have
achieved a goal, you have to take the time to enjoy the satisfaction
of having done so. Absorb the implications of the goal achievement,
and observe the progress you have made towards other goals.
If the goal was
a significant one, you should reward yourself appropriately.
Think of it like this, why would you choose to ignore any
accomplishments that you have made?
In doing that,
you are downplaying your accomplishment which will convince
you that it wasn’t that important in the first place.
With the experience
of having achieved each goal, you should next review the
rest of your goal plans and see them in the following manner:
- If you achieved
the goal too easily, make your next goals harder
- If the goal
took a disheartening length of time to achieve, make the
next goals a little easier
- If you learned
something that would lead you to change other goals, do
so
- If while achieving
the goal you noticed a certain lacking in your skills,
decide which goals to set in order to fix this.
You should keep
in mind that failure to meet goals does not matter as long
as you learn from it. Feed lessons learned back into your
goal-setting program.
You must also
remember that your goals will change as you mature. Adjust
them regularly to reflect this growth in your personality.
If goals no longer hold any attraction for you let them go.
Goal setting is your servant, not your master. It should bring
you real pleasure, satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
If it stops, there
is no longer a point. Let’s look at an example.
The best example
of goal setting that you can have is to try setting your
own goals. Set aside two hours to think through your lifetime
goals in each of the categories. Then work back through the
25-year plan, 5-year plan, 1-year plan, 6-month plan, and
a 1-month plan.
Finally draw up
a To Do List of jobs to do tomorrow to move towards your
goals. When you do, you will soon realize that you will be
on your way to using your goals setting on a routine basis.
 
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