As you may already know, goal setting is not the same as strategy planning. However, both goal setting and planning are important in our life, because with both of them, we can basically achieve anything we want in our life.

So What is Goal Setting?

Like what I told you, goal setting is not the same as planning. Goal setting is writing down WHAT YOU WANT TO ACHIEVE in your life. For example, your goals can be to buy a sports car or to earn $1 million dollar in just 3 years. These are what I called your goals. If you did not write down your goals, they will be dreams. Once you write them down, they will become goals for you to achieve.

There are many ways to set your goals, if you are not sure what are the criteria for setting an effective goal, read Goal Setting for more information. Always remember to write down your dreams, let it become more tangible in your life. Write them down and go through them as much as possible everyday, go through them at least once before you sleep and once right after you woke up.

What is Strategy Planning?

For me, strategy planning is different from goal setting. Strategy planning is something EVEN MORE tangible, they are what I called ’steps’ that you must take in order to achieve your goals. Like goal setting, you too, must write down your strategies how are you going to achieve your goals. Yes, strategy planning are the steps how are you going to achieve your goals.

Take the example above, if your goal is to earn $1 million in just 3 years, how are you going to achieve it? Are you going to venture into the world of internet marketing? Or maybe you have strong desire in network marketing? What about stock or property investment? As you can see now, strategy planning are the steps that you can actually TAKE to make your goals come true.

You Need Both to Succeed in Your Life

Yes, you need both goal setting and strategy planning to achieve what you want in your life. Without anyone of them, you will never achieve what you always dream of.

Let’s say that you have set your goal as to earn $1 million from internet marketing in just 3 years. So your strategy planning can be:

1. Penetrate your target market using affiliate marketing.
2. Set up a lead capture page to capture visitor’s contact.
3. Make use of email marketing to close sales.
4. Drive traffic to your lead capture page with article marketing and forum marketing.
5. Improve the system and make at least $500 per week.
6. Decide whether to launch another program to profit from or keep on improving the sales.

I believe that you are clear now and you can see the big picture of what goal setting is and what strategy planning is. Now, both goal setting and planning can be as specific as possible. In fact, the more specific your goals and your plans are, the easier you are going to achieve your dreams. (How to Catalyze Your Thoughts and Dreams)

Goals are just like your target, they keep you stay focused so that you will not running out of the direction where you are heading. As for strategy planning, if goal is your target, then planning will be your arrow and your bow. The arrow and the bow are how you are the tools how are you going to hit your target with.

If You Don’t Know What You Want, You Are a Walking Dead 

I hope that you are clear with goal setting and planning now. They are not the same, but their reasons are the same, that is to help you achieve what you wanted the most in your life.

If you still don’t know what you want to achieve in your life, make sure you find out the answer before you sleep tonight. Life without dreams and goals is meaningless.

Have you ever watched Resident Evil? If you don’t have a clear goal of what you want to achieve in your life today, you will be just like the walking dead in the movie. You don’t know where to go and you don’t know who you are. All you do is attacking those who still live, why? Because it is what every walking dead did!

So you see, if you don’t have a plan today, you are going to end up in somebody else’s plan, you are going to end up doing what everyone is doing. That is why 95% of the people in this world are complaining about their life, only 5% of them are satisfied with their life, because they know exactly what they want in life, they determine their life’s meaning. You are no different than the undead if you don’t have a clear goal and a specific plan of how to achieve them in your life.

Therefore, find out what you really want in your life today, make sure you write down your dreams and develop plans for your goals. The journey of a thousand leagues start from a single step, so take that first step today, make your dreams come true. Read 4 Steps to Achieve Anything You Want in Life.

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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by Shawn
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