7 Steps To Goal Setting

The following broad guidelines will help you to set effective goals:

#1 State each goal as a positive statement: Express your goals positively – ‘Execute this procedure well’ is a much better goal than ‘Don’t make this foolish misstep.”

#2 Be meticulous: Set a meticulous goal, putting in dates, times and amounts so that you can calculate achievement. If you do this, you will know exactly when you have achieved the goal, and can take thorough satisfaction from having achieved it.

#3 Set priorities: When you have more than a few goals, give each one a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.

#4 Write goals down: This solidifies them and gives them more weight.

#5 Keep operational goals small: Keep the low-level goals you are working towards small and achievable. If a goal is too significant, then it can seem that you are not making development towards it. Keeping goals small and incremental gives more opportunities for reward. Obtain today’s goals from larger ones.

#6 Set performance goals, not outcome goals: You should take thoughtfulness to set goals over which you have as much rule as possible. There is nothing more dispiriting than failing to achieve a personal goal for reasons beyond your power. In business, these could be bad business environments or unexpected effects of government policy. In sport, for instance, these reasons could include feeble judging, bad weather, injury, or just plain bad luck. If you base your goals on individual accomplishment, then you can keep control over the achievement of your goals and get satisfaction from them.

#7 Set realistic goals: It is important to set goals that you can complete. All sorts of people (employers, parents, media, society) can set unrealistic goals for you. They will often do this in ignorance of your own desires and ambitions. Alternatively you may set goals that are too high, because you may not recognize the value of either the obstacles in the way or recognize quite how much skill you need to develop to achieve a particular level of performance.

Achieving Goals

When you have achieved a goal, take the time to take pleasure in the satisfaction of having done so. Soak up the implications of the goal achievement, and survey the progress you have made towards other goals. If the goal was a significant one, treat yourself accordingly. All of this helps you manufacture the self-confidence you deserve!

With the knowledge of having achieved this goal, re-examine the rest of your goal plans:

If you achieved the goal too effortlessly, make your next goals more challenging.

If the goal took a gloomy length of time to achieve, make the next goals a little easier.

If you learned something that would advance you to change other goals, do so.

If you noticed a insufficiency in your skills even though achieving the goal, make a decision whether to set goals to fix this.
Failure to meet goals does not matter  much, as long as you be taught from it. Feed lessons learned back into your goal setting program.

Remember too that your goals will change as time goes on. Modify them frequently to indicate growth in your learning and experience, and if goals do not hold any attraction any longer, then let them go.

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