Have you ever thought of why do you need to have a goal? Why is that every successful person set goals anyway? There must be some reasons behind why they do so. For me, there are basically only 3 reasons why I set my goals…

1. Goals Keep Me Focus In My Direction

I believe you know this. The number one reason people set their goals is because goals can keep them staying focused in where they are heading. It does not matter where you come from, the real key is where are you heading? Maybe you come from a poor family or maybe you live a mediocre life. But it does not matter because everyone has different background.

It does not mean that if you come a rich family, you will 100% achieve your goals because you are rich. It also does not mean that if you come from a poor family, then you will be staying poor forever. Where you want to go is the real key to achieve great success in life.

Like I said, goals keep you staying focuses on where you are heading. If you don’t have a goal today, where will you be heading? Like if your goal is to become a top player in tennis, but if you haven’t found this goal yet, where will you be going? Will you improve your tennis skill? Mostly not, because it does not matter for you whether you are a top tennis player or not. However, once you have a clear goal of wanting to become a top tennis player, what kind of action will you take? Will you keep on thinking about this goal? Of course you will. And if you keep on thinking about this goal, will you take more action and train more? Definitely.

So you see, your goals keep you focus in where you are heading. It is the same if you want to be a millionaire. You need to set goal to achieve it. Your goal will then keep you focus and moving you toward that direction. As a result, you will take more action along the way, and hence, improve in the area of where you have set your goals.

It does not matter even if you did not achieve your goals. I cannot guarantee that once you have set your goals, you will achieve them. What I can promise is that once you have set your goals, you will definitely improve in that direction. Why? It is because you will at least take some action that moves you toward your goals, therefore, improve in that direction.

This is the number one reason why goal setting is so important. It gives you reasons to wake up in the morning, it is the determinant of how you live your life today.

2. Your Goals Somehow Motivate You

In fact, it is not your goals that motivate you, it is the reason behind your goals that motivate you. However, the moment you set your goals, you are cleared with the reason why you want to achieve them, this gives you a strong desire and this desire is going to drive you forward.

Whenever you look at your goals, you will be motivated because your mind know the reasons behind your goals. Your goals are somehow linked with your purpose of achieving them. That means, when you see your goals, you will get motivated because they are the signal that drives you in your life.

This is just like the moment you see your dream car, you will get motivated, because it will trigger your hot button and get you driven. Your goals have this very same function. The moment you see your goals, you will get motivated, they remind you of what you have to do and what you have to accomplish in your life.

This is why you need to write down your goals and paste them somewhere you can see often. Unfortunately, this is also the step that most people are not doing because they are shy about their goals, they fear others might laugh at them if they fail to achieve their goals.

3. Get You What You Want In The Shortest Time Possible

If you don’t have any goal today, you will be like lost sheep that dangling in nowhere. When you know what exactly that you want in your life, you are clear of your direction, you know where you want to go and you will save a lot of time focus and get there.

Have you ever heard of the Pareto 80/20 rule? Your goals will determine your action. That means, if you have a goal today, you will spend most of your time doing what’s necessary to get you there, you are spending 20% of your time to produce 80% of the results that you want. If you don’t have a clear goal today, you will do a lot of things that give you little results because you are focused.

In fact, goal setting enable you to take action according to your action plan. And by doing so, you are actually doing the tasks that have the greatest impact in your life. You are doing something that give you the maximum results. Just like if you have written down your goals and you have developed an action plan on how you can achieve your goals, you can then organize your action plan according to their importance and their impact on your lives.

Organize and get those action step that gives you the most impact and maximum results in your life first. This way, you will be getting 20% percent of the things done and produce 80% of the results.

These are the top 3 reasons you need to have a goal. Goal setting is a very crucial process in your road to success. If there is one thing that can make your dreams come true, it is goal setting.

So make the decision and set your goals today. Be committed and do whatever it takes to achieve your goals.

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Posted on October 9th, 2008 by Shawn
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