GOALS

GOALS

GOALS are objectives or task that a person wants to achieve in a limited time period. Goals are short-term and long- term . Short-term goals are objectives a person wants to achieve in 6 months to 1 year or even five years. Long-term goals are objectives a person wants to achieve in the next 5 to 20 years.

In most of my books I always talk about the importance of goals because it is the way I and other successful people achieve things. Goals with time limits give power to the accomplishment of any objective it serve as a forcing mechanism or an inner drive to action. Goals give purpose to the accomplishment of anything.

HOW TO SET GOALS

So do you set goals? I thought you will never ask; to set goals you have to first determine what is it you want, than you must set a reasonable objective to accomplish what you want, if it is a big goal you wish to achieve you must have to break it down into small parts and set a time limit to accomplish these little goals. This is the most important part, resolve that you most pay the price to accomplish your goals, than start, don’t wait for anything just start whether you are ready or not.

This what the book the power of “Self-Discipline No Excuses” written by Brian Tracy says about a powerful yet simple method of setting goals called the ten goal exercise.

       “ THE TEN GOAL EXERCISE

Take out a clean sheet of paper. At the top of the paper write the word “GOALS” todays date. Than discipline yourself to write down ten goals that you like to accomplish in the next twelve months. Write down financial goals and fitness goals as well as goals for personal possessions like a house or a car.

Don’t worry for the moment how you are going to achieve these goals. Just write them down as quickly as you can. You can write as many as fifteen goals if you like, but this exercise requires that you write down a minimum of ten within three or five minutes”.

It’s very important goals are written down and placed where it can be seen regularly; any goal that is not written down and does not have a time limit is still a wish that may not be achieved.

I use the ten goal exercise regularly and it has helped me a lot to accomplish many things, like writing this book for you. I encourage you to do the same.

Do you know that people can go through the university without learning how to set goals?

Those who have achieved financial success are intensely goal oriented; they know how the power of goal setting affects their accomplishments. While everyone else doesn’t set goals and even if they do it’s never written down and it never has a time limit.

NOTE: I’m not saying that setting time limits for a goal and writing it on paper will insure that one must accomplish the goal. Its serve as a way to force the mind into action, Instead of procrastinating, one has to take action to achieve the goal.

Goal setting is an important secret of becoming rich and wealthy. Write goals on paper keep them in a place that you can see regularly, review them morning and evening, develop plans to achieve them and resolve to take actions to achieve the goals.