Blogs >> Education & Books >>
The way ..........? you can ................? Achieve Your Dreams.
Don't let your goals and resolutions fall by the wayside. Chances are that to achieve your dreams and live a life you love, those goals and resolutions are crucial. Goal setting and goal achievement are easier if you follow these six steps for effective and successful goal setting and resolution accomplishment.
- You need to deeply desire the goal or resolution. "The starting point of all
achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring
weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of
heat." So, your first step in goal setting and achieving your dreams
is that you've got to really, really want to achieve the goal.
- Visualize yourself achieving the goal. "The greatest discovery of my
generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their
attitudes of mind." What will your achievement feel like? How will
your life unfold differently as a result? If the goal is a thing, some
gurus of goal setting recommend that you keep a picture of the item where
you see and are reminded of it every day. If you can’t picture yourself
achieving the goal, chances are – you won’t.
- Make a plan for the path you need to follow to
accomplish the goal.
Create action steps to follow. Identify a critical path. The critical path
defines the key accomplish-ments along the way, the most important steps
that must happen for the goal to become a reality. "All things are
created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or
second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint,
the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought
everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you
go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching
orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind." He's right.
- Commit to achieving the goal by writing down the goal. "The discipline of
writing something down is the first step toward making it happen." I
agree completely. Write down the plan, the action steps and the critical
path. Somehow, writing down the goal, the plan and a timeline sets events
in motion that may not have happened otherwise. In my own life, it is as
if I am making a deeper commitment to goal accomplishment. I can’t fool
myself later. The written objective really was the goal.
- Establish times for checking your progress in your
calendar system,
whatever it is: a day planner, a PDA, a PDA phone or a hand written list.
If you’re not making progress or feel stymied, don't let your optimism
keep you from accomplishing your goals. No matter how positively you are
thinking, you need to assess your lack of progress. Adopt a pessimist’s
viewpoint; something will and probably is, going to go wrong. Take a look
at all of the factors that are keeping you from accomplishing your goal
and develop a plan to overcome them. Add these plan steps to your calendar
system as part of your goal achievement plan.
- Review your overall progress regularly. Make sure you are making
progress. If you are not making progress, hire a coach, tap into the
support of loved ones, analyze why the goal is not being met. Don’t allow
the goal to just fade away. Figure out what you need to do to accomplish
it. Check the prior five steps starting with an assessment of how deeply
you actually want to achieve the goal.
This six step goal setting and
achieving system seems simple, but it is the most powerful system you will ever
find for achieving your goals and living your resolutions. You just need to do
it. Best wishes and good luck.
|