The document discusses goal setting and provides tips for effective goal setting. It defines goal setting as identifying something you want to accomplish and establishing measurable objectives and timeframes. Goal setting is important as it helps you focus on what's important, measure progress, and stay accountable. Tips for goal setting include brainstorming goals, setting deadlines, reviewing the list to choose top goals, and ensuring goals are SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound). Tips for achieving goals include visualizing success, sharing goals with others, keeping goals visible, and regularly reviewing goals.
2. WHAT IS GOAL SETTING?
• Goal setting can look very different depending on an individual’s lifestyle,
values and definition of success. Your goals are unique to you and don’t
need to look like anyone else’s.
• The classic goal setting definition boils down to the process of identifying
something you want to accomplish and establishing measurable objectives
and timeframes to help you achieve it.
• Goal setting can help you in any area of your life, from achieving financial
freedom to adopting a healthy diet when you learn how to set goals in one
area of your life; it becomes easier to set them in other areas.
3. WHY IS GOAL SETTING IMPORTANT
• Goal setting is vital because it helps you decide and focus on what’s really
important to you. Effective goal setting also lets you measure
progress, overcome procrastination and visualize your dreams.
• If you don’t know what you want to accomplish, you can’t create a plan to
get there. Setting goals is the vehicle that will drive you to your desired
destination.
• Goal setting also keeps you accountable. Whether you’re learning how to
set goals at work or in your personal life, telling others about your goals
makes you more likely to establish the patterns that will accomplish them.
4. WHY HAVE GOALS ANYWAY
• Effective goal setting is the fundamental key to success. Whether
it’s increasing your intelligence, taking up a new hobby or rekindling
a relationship setting goals lets us create our future.
• It also helps us grow and expand, pushing ourselves to transform in
ways that we never imagined. In order to feel truly fulfilled, we
need to know and feel like we’re working to achieve something.
• Tony Robbins says, “Progress equals happiness,” and setting goals is
what gets us there.
5. GOAL SETTING TIPS
• 1. Perform a brainstorming session. Give yourself six minutes to
brainstorm a list of anything you’d like to achieve, create, do,
have, give and/or experience in the next 20 years. Write as many
things down as fast as you can in this time.
• 2. Refine your goals. Setting deadlines is crucial to the goal-
setting process. Go back through your list and write one, three,
five, 10 or 20 years next to each goal to indicate how long it will
take to achieve them.
6. GOAL SETTING TIPS
• 3. Review your list. Go over what you’ve written. Choose your top
four one-year goals. These are goals that truly excite you. Write a
paragraph for each goal explaining why you will absolutely
achieve this goal within the next 12 months.
• 4. Evaluate your goals. Are your goals specific? Measurable?
Achievable? Realistic? Do they have a specific timeframe? These
are the components of a SMART goal. You set SMART goals with
purpose and intention, making them more concrete and easier to
achieve.
8. HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
• Learning how to set goals is worthless if you
don’t learn how to achieve goals. Set yourself
up for success by following these tips.
9. HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
• 1. Visualize accomplishing your goals. Visualization is a
powerful activity. When you visualize your goals on a
daily basis as if you’ve already achieved them, you align
your purpose and values with your actions.
• 2. Share your goals. Find a friend, family member or
another person you trust and share your list of goals
with them. You can also share the list with a mentor
or life coach. Sharing your list will make you more
accountable and give you a partner who will work with
you through frustrations or roadblocks. The right
partner can help you transform obstacles into
opportunities and stay on track.
10. HOW TO ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS
• 3. Keep your goals visible. Where focus goes, energy
flows, so it’s critical to focus on your goals. Tape them on
the mirror in your bathroom or pin them to the wall next
to your computer. If your goals involve adopting
a healthy diet and losing weight, put them on the front of
your refrigerator or a kitchen cabinet.
• 4. Regularly review your goals. Have a set schedule to
review both short- and long-term goals. This helps you
track progress as well as determine what activities are
helping you and which are hindering you. It’s important
to know when alterations to your course are necessary:
Stay flexible and make changes where necessary.
12. SMART Goals
SMART usually stands for:
• S – Specific (or Significant).
• M – Measurable (or Meaningful).
• A – Attainable (or Action-Oriented).
• R – Relevant (or Rewarding).
• T – Time-bound (or Trackable).
13. Key Points
• Goal setting is an important method for:
• Deciding what you want to achieve in your life.
• Separating what's important from what's irrelevant, or
a distraction.
• Motivating yourself.
• Building your self-confidence, based on successful
achievement of goals.
