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How can I effectively define my goals?
The goal making process follows logical, sequential behavioural steps.
However, a substantial amount of the impact depends on the positive mental
attitude of the Goalmaker.
The following guidelines for goal making include steps to support positive
changes for both attitude and behaviour:
- Identify your mission or purpose in life and
set your goals to align with this.
- Decide what you really want and write it in
present tense as if it's already been achieved. Goals must be in
writing. An unwritten want is just a wish. If it's in writing, it's a
commitment. (What you hold in your head doesn't happen. A written goal
has positive energy that can move you towards your result, sometimes
seemingly without your consciously directed action.)
- Goals must be specific - Broad desires have no
effect. It must be concrete and detailed. Specify the task you will need
to achieve each goal and then break a large goal into achievable
"bite-size" bits. How do you eat an elephant? ....... Chunk by chunk!
One bite at a time.
- Goals must be believable. If you don't believe
you can reach it, you won't. Eliminate the negatives in your life and
focus on positive things. You are responsible for your thoughts, so make
them positive ones. Don't listen to people who say "It will never work.
You can't do that. You'll never make it". Remember, Christopher Columbus
would never have sailed over the horizon unless he had belief in
himself.
- Goals must be challenging and demand more from
you. Be willing to stretch your comfort zone.
- Act to set your goals in motion. Planning is
only the first stage of goal achievement. First set your goals, then you
must act to get your goals.
- Apply self-discipline. No matter how many
people are aware of your goal, the final responsibility rests with you.
Remember - the buck stops with me. You need to consistently organise
yourself and work with determination and commitment if you are to
achieve the success you truly deserve.
- Goals must include your loved ones. Goals must
harmonise and be in balance (not conflict with each other).
- Goals must have target dates for completion. Set a target date for
your goal and share it with someone-else who will encourage you to meet
the deadline. There is nothing as motivating as an "impending event"
to get you into action.
One of these Guidelines will be shown to you each time you use GoalMaker
as a reinforcement, so that you become unconsciously competent in setting
your goals.
How do I manage my goals so that I easily achieve them?
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