Posts Tagged ‘Goal Setting’

Why Your Goals Need To Be Specific And Clear

July 14th, 2011

I believe you understand that the goals you set must be clear and specific. Do you know that one of the most common reasons people fail to get what they want in their lives is that they do not really know what they want?

setting specific goalThis may sound ridiculous, but it is a truth. When you ask someone what they want in their lives, most of them will tell you that they want to be happier, to have a better job, to have more money, to have less worries and so on. All these are general wishes that everybody wants. These are NOT goals; these are very general wishes that everyone wants in their lives.

How can you achieve ‘to have more money’ when you do not know how much that you want? This is why having a clear and specific goal is very important. It gives you a measure of where you are, how to get there and when will you achieve it.

For me, the most important reason that you need to make your goal clear is because your goal will determine the strategies that you are going to use to achieve them.

Allow me to explain what I mean here. The strategies that you are going to use to achieve the goal of making $10,000 per month and making $100,000 per month are totally different. Let me give you a very clear example…

Let’s say that you are running a shop selling fruits by the roadside and you are making $10,000 per month. Do you think that it is possible to raise your income by earning $15,000 per month? The answer is an absolute yes.

What you can do is to work harder, raise the prices of your fruits, make the operation hour longer, create loyalty programs and allow others to sell for you, create an online selling system and so on. Highly likely, you will increase your revenue and achieve your target.

Now, do you think that it is possible to earn $100,000 from your fruit business? If you are running your business the same way, of course the answer will be a no. However, if you apply other strategies to grow your business, the target that you set is possible to achieve.

For instance, you must study the market, create a solid business proposal, raise capital through investments, widen your market by creating more fruits-related products such as organic fruit, invest in research and development to build a strong brand, come up with ideas that can expand your business both nationally and internationally instead of just running your business in shop, create dried fruits product that can sell around the globe, set up franchise system and grow your business to the next level and so on.

Now, do you think that making $100,000 a month is possible? Of course it is. The only different is in your strategies that you are going to use to achieve your goals. This is why your goals are important and they must be specific enough.

Your goals will determine your strategies. Thus, if you set low goals, your mind will come up with mediocre strategies to achieve those goals. On the other hand, if you set high goals, your mind will come up with strategies to achieve those high goals.

And you have to understand this, it does not matter what goal you set, all goals are achievable, it is just a matter of strategies. If you use the wrong strategies, you will produce the wrong results. If you use the right strategies, you will create the results that you want.

Now you know why having a clear and specific goal is important. So look back at your goals right now and ask yourself whether they are clear and specific. Make sure your goals are specific, measurable and with a deadline when you will achieve them.

Remember, always make sure your goals are measurable so that you can know the process and know how far you are from your goals. When you know your numbers, you can come up with better and more efficient strategies to achieve them.

Finally, take action and do something to accomplish what you have set to achieve. Do not just talk and dream about it, do something everyday and make sure you are making progress toward it. Think about the future that you want all the time. Imagine what if you achieve all the goals that you have set. And imagine what if you did not achieve any of the goals that you set and you are still living in mediocre after 5 years from now. How does it feel?

So start now and take massive action today.

Keep Your Goals In Mind

June 6th, 2011

Setting goal is something easy to do, but keeping them in your mind will be another story. A lot of people know how to set their goals and they know what they want to accomplish in their lives, however, they are not keeping these goals in their mind.

In other words, you have to consistently reviewing your goals from time to time. If possible, review your goals once in the morning after you wake up and once at night time before you go to bed. What you need to do is just to read your goals, affirm them and if possible, visualize about them.

Out of sight, out of mind

vision board

vision board

The reason most people are not taking action is that they forgot about their goals and their dreams. Most people will forget about what they have set to achieve in the next few minutes. Therefore, you need to consistently reviewing your goals so that you will actually condition them into your subconscious mind.

It is just like when I tell you about burger, highly likely, the first thing that will come into your mind is McDonald. How about if I talk about professional basketball player? Who will come into your mind in the first place? Is it Michael Jordan?

Well, what comes up in your mind is not really that important here, the key is that how come when I talk about something like basketball or golf, you will automatically link and think about that particular thought?

There are a few answers to the question above. It can be because of a strong emotion that makes you link that thought or maybe it can be because you have been bombarded your mind consistently with the same thought in a particular event.

What I mean here is that you must do the same in goal setting. You must link your goals into your subconscious so that you will take action automatically to achieve them.

This is why reviewing your goal consistently is so important. When you review and think about your goals consistently, you are actually making it a habit to think about it. And in the same time, linking what you want to accomplish in your life into your subconscious mind.

And when this happened, you will automatically take action to move toward your goals. Your subconscious mind will search and look for important events and activities that will lead you toward your goals. This is how great people are able to accomplish amazing results in their lives.

Successful people do not only know what they want, they know what they want and they think about it most of the time. It is what you think about most of the time that will make you the person you want to be.

You will become who you think about most of the time

The easiest way to find out what you think about most of the time is by looking at your life right now. If you are in financial trouble now, most likely you are thinking about all the bad things about your business and finances. Maybe you are worrying about your business, thinking about how hard the economy is, how difficult to close a sale and so on.

Your outer world actually reflects your inner world. Thus, look at your life right now. Take a few minutes to really think about it.

So are you satisfied with your life right now? If your answer is a no, congratulations, because you know you know you want a better life and you definitely can achieve it.

Oftentimes, it is the dissatisfaction that will create a better life. If everything is fine and right for you, you will never go through change.

What to do now?

So what you need to do right now is very simple. I believe that you know what you want to accomplish and you have your dreams to achieve in the future. What you need to do is to consistently reviewing them everyday.

Here are some suggestions that you can do. You can create a vision board, cutting out all the related pictures of your dreams and paste them on the board. This can help you to visualize your dreams easily. In the same time, you can also create affirmations to help you from time to time. You can repeat the affirmations whenever you are free.

There are actually quite a number of creative and fun ways that you can use to help you remember your goals and your dreams. You just need to make it fun and explore my blog for more great and inspiring ideas.

3 Ultimate Secrets To Achieving Your Goals

March 2nd, 2010

Goal setting is one of the most powerful techniques that you can use to help you accomplish what you really want in your life.

The problem is that most people still fail to create the life they want even with the help of goal setting. Why?

The answer might be they don’t know how goal setting really works. You see, by simply writing down what you want to have in your life on a piece of paper is not the magic step that will help you make it come true.

However, this is exactly what most people do. They write down what they want on a piece of paper, and “hope” that their goals will come true. This is just not going to work.

It is not that goal setting does not work, it is you that do not make it work for you.

You have to work the principles. It is just like anyone can read a book that shows him how to be rich, but not everyone will be rich. You can have all the knowledge you want, but you won’t be rich if you don’t practice the principles.

And today I’m going to share with you the 3 ultimate secrets how you can achieve your goals the guaranteed way.

What you have to do is to follow through each of these 3 principles that I’m going to share with you. If you do, the day that you achieved your goals will be near…

1. Practice The Rule Of Five

Jack Canfield suggest that if you want to make your goals come true, you can practice the rule of five.

What he means is that you have to take five action steps that will move you toward your goals each and everyday. Seriously, if you follow this rule, you definitely will achieve your goals in the future.

If you think that 5 action steps are too much for you, you can always lower the number. You can make it to 3 instead of 5 action steps.

The key here is to take consistent action everyday so that you will achieve what you really want in your life.

2. Condition Your Goals Into Your Subconscious

Do you know why goal setting works? It works because it helps to condition what you want to accomplish into your subconscious mind. Whenever you write down your goals, you strengthen the neuro connection in your mind. You are telling yourself that your goals are something important to you and you must achieve them.

Goal setting helps you to stay focused in what you want because it conditioned your mind to do so. Think about it, if you keep on thinking about your goals, do you think you will take more action to make it come true? Of course you will.

And this is exactly what goal setting do to you. And this is exactly what you need to do if you want to achieve your goals easily.

There are a few methods that you can use to help you condition your goals into your subconscious. For example, visualization, a vision board, reviewing your goals, affirmation, and more.

3. Starting With One Small Step

Yes, if you want to achieve your goals, you must start from one small step. Many people fail to achieve their goals because they set their goals too high in the beginning.

Think about it, do you think you can make $10,000 in the next 3 months? I’m not saying that you should not set big goals. In fact, you need to set big goals. It is just that you will have to start small in the beginning.

If you start small and achieve your goals in the beginning, what do you think is going to happen? Do you think you will feel more confident and ready to set larger goals? You know the answer.

On the other hand, if you set your goals too high in the beginning and you fail to achieve them, what do you think will happen to you? You will condition to yourself that goal setting does not work!

This is why it is so important to set smaller goals in the beginning. If you set small goals and achieve them all, you will condition yourself with positive thoughts such as you’re great, you’re capable of doing it, you have all the potential and you will be more confident with yourself.

So these are the 3 ultimate secrets to achieving your goals in your life.

As long as you follow through these 3 principles above, you will never go wrong.

Success Lessons From Brian Tracy

February 13th, 2010

Lately when I was browsing YouTube, I came across with this video clip…

Although it is  short video, but the lesson from this success coach is a great one. Perhaps, we all should learn from Brian Tracy if we want to be successful.

How To Stay Focused With Your Goals All The Time

February 6th, 2010

Goal setting is indeed one of the most powerful techniques that everyone can use to help them achieve their dreams in their lives.

The main problem most people face with goal setting is that they cannot stay focused with their goals all the time.

In fact, one of the reasons goal setting works wonderfully is because it helps people to stay focused in their daily lives. Setting a goal will lead you and direct you toward the place you want to end up.

For example, when someone set a goal to lose 10 pounds, he will constantly remind himself about this mission. And as a result, it will direct that person into getting the results that he wants.

For instance, he will try to eat less whenever he thinks about his goal. Or maybe he will exercise every morning once he thought about his mission.

As for those who don’t have any goal, they will never bother about it. This is what separates successful people and super achiever from ordinary people.

Unfortunately, you need to stay focused with your goals to do this. If you are not focused in your goals, you will be just like ordinary people. You set your goals today and forget about them tomorrow.

So the key to successful goal setting is to stay focused in your goals until you conditioned them into your subconscious mind so that you’ll think about your goals automatically without having to remind yourself about it.

Here are a few tips that can help you with this…

1. Use Affirmation

Yes, this is an easy method that can help you to stay focused in your goals. Affirm your goals a few times a day will turn you on and motivate you into taking action.

However, not everyone will do this because they will forget to do it just like they forget about their goals.

What you can do is to write down your affirmations on a card and put it inside your pocket. Whenever you feel it in your pocket or whenever you touch it when you put your hands into your pocket, you will instantly recall about your affirmation, and hence know what your goals are.

2. Write Down Your Goals

Do you know why you have to write down your goals on a piece of paper right now? The more tangible your goals, the easier you are going to focus on them.

And if you can better focus on your goals, the more likely you are going to achieve them.

This is why every goal setting tips require you to write down what you want to accomplish in your life.

So write down your goals on a piece of paper and try to put it somewhere you can see often. You can put the paper on your table, paste it on your cupboard, or frame it and hang it on the wall.

3. Create A Vision Board

There are a few cases where people use this technique marvelously. What a vision board will do for you is just like the paper that you use to write down your goals. Just that a vision board is a better and more creative way of doing it.

You can cut down any pictures related to your goals or which you think can inspire you and paste them on a board. If your goal is to buy a Rolex gold watch, cut down the pictures from any magazine and paste it on the board.

Thus, whenever you see that board, you will remind yourself about your goals. As simple as this.

4. There Are Many Ways To Do This, Be Creative!

Yes, there are many ways how you can accomplish this, you just have to be creative and makes your goals as tangible as possible.

You can also tell all your friends about your goals and so whenever you see their faces, you will get reminded. Or sometimes your friends will ask you about your goals, and that will definitely help you in your journey.

I hope this post today is going to be great help for you. If you have any other ideas about how to stay focused with goals all the time, let me hear you in the comment section.