I recently used the term "goal setting" on Google, and I came across some 3,600,000 web pages related to that topic. This should not surprise us, for common sense is that setting a goal is an important skill. It is easy to write both in anecdotal evidence and in research that setting goals can help us achieve more.
There are hundreds of books, cassettes, lectures, workshops, and websites that will provide us with tools and procedures for setting goals. One can think of something as important as setting a goal, with the many tools available, that everyone can have a set of goals. However this is not the case.
Although I was able to fill out a letter for reasons why, there is something very important. People are not setting goals now because they have not achieved what they set out in the past. They follow the process of setting goals that they have read or learned about, but the seminar or book stopped at the wrong time. The seminar is on hold.
That’s like ending a game after the first game, and then sitting on the sidelines, while the goal is off the field. My advice to you, if you can identify from what you just read is to stop worrying about setting goals. And start focusing on achieving the goal. In other words, stop worrying about which goal setting model you can use, or any software you can track your progress. Stop making the goal setting process a focus, and start focusing on achieving the goal.
Here are three things you can do to keep our focus on achieving the goal and greatly increase your success: 1. Illness and fatigue. It is often said that people really start to achieve new health goals when they are “sick and tired of illness and fatigue.” Achieving a goal means you want something different than what you have now.
In order to build your ongoing and ongoing motivation to achieve something new, knowledge or status, you have to hate and be dissatisfied with the current situation. This does not mean that you have to become bitter or resentful, but rather it means developing healthy dissatisfaction with the way things are now (current profit, cycle time of new product development, or your inability to find a bathroom in Brazil). 2. Find (and stay) happy with the result.
To support the challenges, obstacles and disappointments on your path to success, you must have another motivation. You must really look for the benefits that will come to you when the new goal is reached. Create a clear and compelling picture in your mind of what you will hear, hear, see, and believe once your goal has been reached. Focus on the results you will get, not just the goal.
This is important because in the end it is what you want, not just “the goal” itself. As you work at achieving your goal, the goal may change, but as long as the desired results remain clear, improve your chances of achieving the desired outcome. 3. Start the program and get started. Note that I did not mean to outline the whole set of steps between you and your goal.
If your goal is big and important at all, it will require a lot of steps, and it will be very difficult / impossible to see at any level of confidence at first. Too many people think they need a complete system. They delay getting started to get the best information possible. They want to talk to one expert, read another book, explore two other options. Get started already! Give yourself a clear idea of the normal course of action, as well as some obvious steps to get started.
Allow yourself the comfort of knowing that the next steps will be clear as you stay on track. Doing these three things will greatly enhance your success in achieving any goal you set for yourself. Actually, let me be clear. Until you get these three features that will work for you at great prices (though they may be different), you will not achieve the goals you set for yourself. You will lose momentum.
You will lose focus. You will lose hope. You will not be able to overcome the initial setback. And you will fall into the easy and comfortable thinking that goal setting “doesn’t work” for you or that you need a new tool, new approach or a new guru to help you set “better” goals.
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