Goal Setting
“Committing your goals to paper increases the likelihood of your achieving them by 1000 percent!”
— Brian Tracy
“Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion.”
— Dorothea Brande, Writer
“An average person with average talent, ambition, and education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.”
— Brian Tracy
“Until you commit your goals to paper, you have intentions that are seeds without soil.”
— Anonymous
“In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia, until ultimately we become enslaved by it.”
— Robert Heinlein, American Novelist
The most important thing to remember when trying to accomplish a goal is to write it down. The simple act of writing down your goals fires off signals in your brain that make your goals one step closer to becoming reality. You need to look at your written goals, every day.
Taking it to the next level, after writing down your goals, you decide when it is that you want to accomplish your goals by. Set a date for achieving all your goals, and make sure you check daily what you’ve done to work toward them. This allows you to see your goals every day, which is important for your subconscious mind to work to help you achieve your goals. It will also help you figure out what action steps you must still take and show you how much longer it will be until you can achieve your goal. Don’t worry if you don’t achieve it by the exact date you wrote down. This is just a method to help you focus more on accomplishing your goals in a certain time frame, rather than employ the “I’ll get it to it later” mindset.
Taking it to the next level again, write down how you’re going to accomplish your goals — the process you’ll use and actions you’re going to take in order to achieve your goals. This three-step process of writing down your goals, having a date it for accomplishing them, and writing down your process and actions for accomplishing each goal completely changes the game. You’re now ahead of 97% of everyone else. You dramatically increase your odds of accomplishing your goals by employing this simple, yet imperative strategy.
“The establishment of a clear, central purpose or goal in life is the starting point of all success.”
— Brian Tracy
Most people do not have many goals, if any at all. If you do not have any goals, it is crucial that you develop some. Both long-term and short-term goals are important to have. Get to it!
Another strategy you can try when setting goals is to tell your friends and family about them. The act of telling people about the goals you want to achieve by a certain date makes you much more inclined and motivated toward actually doing what you’ve said.
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
— Henry Ford
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