What Personal Goal Setting tip increases your chance of achieving your goals by 1000%?
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Personal Goal setting is a major component
of any personal development program and indeed for anyone wanting to succeed
in any or all areas of their life.
"A goal properly set is halfway reached."
-Zig Ziglar
Personal goal setting is a process that allows
people to specify then work towards their own objectives. To
be most effective goals should be specific, realistic and have a time frame
for completion.
Why set personal goals?
By setting personal goals on a routine basis
you decide what you want to achieve, and then move step-by-step towards the
achievement of these goals. The process of personal goal setting allows you
to choose where you want to go in life. By knowing precisely what you want to
achieve, you know what you have to concentrate on to do it.
Personal goal setting is a procedure used by
successful business people, top level sports women and men and achievers in
all fields. It gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation.
By setting clearly defined goals using a goal
setting worksheet, you can take pride in the achievement of those goals. You
see progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless struggle.
With personal goal setting, you will also raise your self-confidence as you
recognize your ability and competence in achieving the goals that you have set.
The process of achieving those personal goals and seeing this achievement, gives
you confidence that you will be able to achieve higher and more difficult goals.
How should you set your goals?
When personal goal setting, take yourself off
somewhere where you feel totally in tune with yourself and your environment.
Find yourself a goal setting worksheet or
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to find out more about the Think2Ink Diary/Workbook
that has a fantastic section on personal goal setting with a step-by-step goal
setting worksheet.
I have a favorite café that plays the
right kind of music and early in the morning there are few other people around.
I sit in the sun with my coffee and the thoughts, ideas and pen just flow. Be
as descriptive as possible and notice your emotions whilst you are writing.
If you can, close your eyes and visualize yourself experiencing and having everything
right now! This can add huge weight to having your achieve these personal goals.
Do this as often as you can.
The first step in setting personal goals is to
consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime, as setting Lifetime goals
gives you the overall perspective that shapes all other aspects of your decision
making.
What are your personal goals?
In order to find out what personal goals you
want to set, you need to ask yourself some pertinent questions and could include
to the following:
What will your life look like when you have what
you want?
What is the ideal career/job/business?
How much money do you want to make?
What things do you want to experience?
Where do you want to go?
What does the ideal relationship look like?
How do you feel when you have everything you
want?
These questions may relate to:
Financial
Business/Career
Personal
Relationships
Once you have the questions answered, you can
make each goal as specific and clear as possible and start breaking things down
so you have clear timeframes around each objective. Personal goal setting usually
includes and a series of lower level goals culminating in a daily to-do list.
The Think2Ink Diary/Workbook
also has a great
'Things to do Today' section which will aid in this process. By setting up this
structure of plans you can break even the biggest life goal down into a number
of small tasks that you need to do each day to reach the bigger personal goals.
Write down your goals - use a goal setting worksheet.
..and the answer to the question above?
Did you know that the single act of writing your
goals down increases the chances of achieving them by 1,100%? Amazing, isn't
it! You can increase your chances of reaching your goals by 11 times just by
writing them down.
A survey was done by a major newspaper and asked people if they had achieved
their goals from the previous year. 46% of those who had written down their
goals did achieve them. And only 4% of those who didn't have written goals achieved
them. That's 11 times the difference!
Thank you for visiting this section and I hope
you find these notes in assisting you to not only set your goals, and also make
them all come to fruition.
If you would like any further tips or have question on personal goal setting,
please email me at Karen@15-minute-life-coach.com