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How to Set Goals.

How to set goals effectively, powerfully and efficiently. Learning the process will move you from dreaming about your ideal future to creating your ideal future. Goal setting is all about changing your reality. It's about moving from where you are in life to somewhere else. Goal achievement is all about making dreams come true.

Goals help you focus your energy. By clarifying exactly what it is that you want to do, you will know where to spend your energy and efforts. You can also quickly identify and deal with those things that distract you from your goal. Life is only a grind when you don't see any progress. Goals help restore the excitement of life.

One of the most common and popular methods on how to set goals is the S.M.A.R.T. goals setting method. This is probably one of the best ways to go about goals that there is. When you have a number of goal victories in your list, you can see progress and be proud of what you've accomplished. Your self confidence will rise as you observe your competence levels rising.

How to Set Goals for Your Personal Life

Goals should be set for all areas of life. To start with you need to create a big picture overview of what you want your life to look like. Once you have the big picture sorted out you can start breaking down the goals necessary to achieve that big picture. Big pictures are usually to overwhelming and scary to attempt all at once but smaller bite sized pieces are less intimidating. So after the big picture you need to decide what the big goals are.

Once you have the big goals determined you can break them down into smaller more manageable sized goals. The big picture, the larger goals, and the smaller goals are your personal blue print for your life. Once you have decided what they are write them down and start working towards them.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

- Donald Rumsfeld

How to set those big picture goals can be intimidating but they don't need to be. Goals and goal setting can be a fun exercise, even a bit of a game. Just because you've worked on setting some goals doesn't mean that you are obliged or committed to them.

How to Set Goals for the Big Picture

Big picture goals are goals that will take a significant amount of time to accomplish. They should be at least 10 years out or more. In order to come up with big picture goals you need to consider all the main areas of your life:

  • Career
  • Education
  • Family
  • Financial
  • Physical
  • Leisure
  • You can brainstorm these areas and come up with some goals in each category that best reflects who you are and what you want to do with your life. You only have one life it makes sense to spend it well. When you have a number of possible goals from your brainstorming session you can prune the list choosing the ones that resonate with you in the strongest fashion.

    As a warning, make sure your goals are goals that you want to achieve, not the goals that your parents, spouse, friends or social group want you to achieve. Be true to yourself.

    How to set goals that support your Big Picture

    Once you have decided on your big picture goals, you need to make a plan of smaller goals that will serve as stepping stones to the bigger goals. In effect you are breaking those big goals down into smaller bite sized chunks. These goals should also be time oriented. For instance you should have a 5 year set of goals, a one year set of goals, a six month set of goals, and then weekly & daily goals. This early in the process a large part of your time should be devoted to planning. Perhaps reading some good books on goal setting, time management and self improvement would be good goals to set.

    Maintaining motivation is difficult. Especially over the long term. One of the things you can do to keep your goals alive and motivating is to simply review and update them on a periodical basis. As your priorities and experiences change you may want to modify and change your goals and plans this is perfectly normal and reasonable. Don't be afraid to rewrite your script when it is clear you need to do so.

    After Figuring out How to Set Goals

    The following is a short list of tips you can apply to help you set effective goals:

  • State every goal as a positive
  • State your goals with precision
  • State your goals in order of priority
  • Write them down!!!
  • Keep your daily & weekly and even monthly goals small
  • Base your goals on performance rather than outcome
  • If you don't already use goal setting techniques as part of your daily life, do so now. You will find your career, family, social life, finances, etc accelerating at a pace that you never anticipated. Knowing how to set goals is one thing doing it...

    Learning how to set goals is only one part of the goal setting process. The other part of the process is managing your mind. When your mind is programmed to set and achieve goals, goal setting will become automatic. Success will be guaranteed. The best way to program your mind for goal setting is to employ the latest technology to do so.

    Brainwave entrainment combined with affirmations will reprogram your mind in short order. When goal setting affirmations are embedded in the deepest part of your mind you will become a goal setting power house. You will achieve more than you ever thought possible. You owe it to yourself and your loved ones to investigate how AFRS and affirmations with brainwave entrainment can help you today.

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