Success Requires Goal Setting
IF you desire to own your life and own your time...
goal setting is essential and crucial.
It will not matter how hard you work, how smart you are or how passionate you feel if you do not set goals. If you are not aware of your intended destination your journey will be unpredictable and possibly unproductive.
Success requires goal setting.
Why
Goal setting creates vision, long term and short term. It triggers motivation. Goal setting helps you focus your knowledge acquisition and organize time, resources so that you can make the most of your life.
Clearly defined, articulated goals that are achievable as well as challenging will raise your self confidence.They will increase your motivation, help you realize your knowledge, ability, strengths and weaknesses. Ultimately goal setting will improve all aspects of your life when done well with clarity and intention.
How
Spend some time brainstorming on who you are, where you are and who you want to become, where you want to go in life. Even a vague vision of your lifetime goal will help you start. Everyone starts somewhere. As the process is set into action, each step and goal can be clarified, defined and set. Choose a starting point and work form there.
Effective goal are S.M.A.R.T goals.
- Specific or Significant
- Measurable or Meaningful
- Attainable or Action-oriented
- Relevant or Rewarding
- Trackable or Time bound
Tips
- must be written down
- positive and powerful language in a present tense statement
- precise, clear
- congruent with self
- ask the question "... and then what?" as well as "why?"
- put time, energy, and passion into your goal setting
- allow flexibility to accommodate to changing circumstances
In the video below, you will discover tremendous value on the Mindset of Effective Goal Setting
then, in this Hangout "Mechanics Of Effective Goal Setting" is discussed.
For goal setting to success in life and business to be effective a systematic process is important. Something that all leaders, effective people and successful people have in common is they are effective goal setters. Change, progress and success are all initiated with goals, motivation and passion.
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