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Written Goals Build Confidence, Add Sense of Value and Reduce Guilt

May 14, 2019 | Goal Setting, Happiness, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Success

There are a number of benefits to planning and goal-setting:

Written goals build confidence. When you know where you want to go and how you plan to get there, you are more confident in your ability. You develop a more positive attitude, a belief that you will be able to achieve more challenging goals. Planning gives you the tools needed to help you overcome negative conditioning by forcing you to concentrate on positive results. Your self-confidence grows and your frustration level is immediately lowered when vagueness and doubt are replaced by focus and concentration.

Written goals add a sense of values.

Goals encourage you to reflect on your values and take a look at yourself in relation to your expectations. Live your life from the inside-out based on your personal values. Making sure your goals are in alignment with your values is a critical success factor. You must have congruence between your goals and your values if you are going to achieve your goals. Written goals reduce conflict. There is a real security in knowing what you want to accomplish and how you plan to accomplish it.

Written goals help you identify conflicts among various priorities and eliminate damaging frustration.

It allows you to coordinate all of your time, effort, and energy on your goal. Written goals eliminate the possibility of unconsciously altering your goals.

Written goals help you save time.

One of the most powerful things about goal-setting is that you quickly learn to use your time constructively. When you know where you are going and how you plan to get there, you know automatically what to do next, what choices to make, and how to overcome obstacles. You move from clock time to goal time. For every minute you spend in planning and setting goals, you save 4 to 10 times that in execution.

Written goals serve as filters to eliminate extraneous demands bombarding us every day.

Written goals help you to focus and concentrate.

Once you really decide you are going to reach a goal, you can see, hear, and think of more possibilities for reaching it than you ever dreamed existed. Planning helps you visualize your future. Goals establish the direction for your attention and awareness. Focus on what you want and not on what you don’t want.

Written goals help you make good decisions.

It’s easier to decide on a progressive course of action if you have a clear picture in your mind of what you want to accomplish. Writing your goals lets you take charge of your life; it encourages you to make important decisions early, take advantage of opportunities, and eliminate weaknesses that get in your way. Goals provide a foundation for decision-making.

Do You Want to Have a Great Life? Set Big Goals.

May 7, 2019 | Goal Setting, Happiness, Motivation, Productivity, Strategic Planning, Success

In 1972, Life magazine published a story depicting the adventures of John Goddard. His story was one on enduring determination filled with personal passion. When John was 15, he heard his grandmother, aunts, and uncles say, “If only I had done this when I was young.”

John was determined not to spend his life playing the “if only” game, so he sat down with a yellow pad and wrote down what he wanted to do with the rest of his life. When he finished writing, 127 goals existed.

John decided there were 10 rivers he wanted to explore, along with 17 mountains he wanted to climb. He decided to become an Eagle Scout, visit every country in the world, learn to fly an airplane, and dive in a submarine. He wanted to retrace the travels of Marco Polo and ride a horse in the Rose Bowl parade. The list goes on and on.

By the time he was 47, he achieved 111 of his original 127 goals.

John’s story is a testament to the power of goal-setting. Setting goals and determining the best route to achieve them is the surest way to go.

Goal-setting is the precondition to success in every venture in life. It’s absolutely vital to succeeding in your career. Goal-setting forces you to focus on what is most important in your life.

Goal-setting is the foundation of all success in life. A builder cannot construct a home without first outlining a blueprint. A pilot cannot fly a plane without first submitting a flight plan. A minister cannot deliver his sermon without first framing his message. You cannot design an extraordinary life without a solid foundation comprised of goals.

Goal-setting provides a road map for people who want to choose their own route to success and shape the events that fill their lives. Creative goal-setting sets in motion the forces for high achievement and a rewarding, fulfilling life. No one ever becomes truly great by accident. Success requires constructive action and positive habits to maintain and sustain your goals program. Remember: Your past isn’t your future, and you can do whatever you want with your future.

Whatever brought you to where you are today isn’t going to take you into the future. Your life is like a blank sheet of paper that you can mold and shape and create into whatever you choose. Life belongs to the intentional and purposeful goal-setters.

High Achievers Take Time to Create Goals and Plans to Achieve Them.

Apr 30, 2019 | Goal Setting, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Strategic Planning, Success

A Harvard University study and numerous other studies reveal that, of 100 people who retire at age 65, three are independently wealthy, 10 live comfortably with some excess income, 60 barely get by, and 27 are completely dependent on outside support.

What makes the difference in these groups?

The major difference is that the top three percent had set clearly defined goals and had placed them in writing. And this group accomplished 80 percent more than the rest of the survey. Consider what difference 80 percent more in results could mean for you and your business.

The next 10 percent have goals “in mind” but have no written plans for their accomplishment. The middle 60 percent sometimes wishes for something, but because they have no real meaningful goals, their wishes remain merely dreams. The bottom 27 percent have no goals except to exist. They spend a lifetime depending on outside help.

The conclusion is clear: A lifelong goals program is essential to success.

Study after study, book after book, validates this information. All high achievers take the time to plan and create clearly defined goals and action plans to achieve those goals. Effective planning and goal-setting take you more than halfway to execution and improves your results more than 80 percent.

I ask you: Is it worth it for you to become one of the top three percent of high achievers and dramatically improve your results?

Goal-setting and goal-achievement are about deciding to make a commitment to your own personal and professional success. Make a decision today to take control of your life. The rubber meets the road when you set goals and develop a basis for action.

Don’t wait another minute. You only get one chance at this life. Your life is not a dress rehearsal; it’s the real thing. It’s really about your commitment to your commitment.

Make no mistake about it: A life of meaning and purpose needs goals and specific plans of action to achieve them. Consider them the pulse of your life.

Creating a Crystal-clear Blueprint for Yourself and Your Future.

Apr 23, 2019 | Business Growth, Goal Setting, Leadership, Motivation, Productivity, Strategic Planning, Success

Have you ever wondered why some people seem to achieve so much more than other people? And do it over and over and over again?

In my work with thousands of entrepreneurs, business owners, and top salespeople over the years, I have found that they all have one thing in common: They have taken the time to sit down and create a crystal-clear blueprint for themselves and their future. They took to heart what management guru Peter Drucker said: “The best way to predict the future is to create it.”

The common fabric of all peak performers throughout history is their ability to set and achieve goals. Remember, your past isn’t your future, and you can do whatever you want with your future.

A consistent finding about successful people is that they put a significant amount of effort into planning and setting goals. They know what they want out of life because they are goal-directed.

They are long-term thinkers and take the long view with every endeavor. They are proactive, rather than reactive, and live their lives with positive expectancy. They know where they are going and how they are going to get there. Goal-setting is the most powerful force available for achieving success. In fact, Aristotle said, “The first step to achieving true success is to have a definite, clear, practical ideal – a goal.”

Anybody can set goals – just take out a piece of paper and start writing them down – but goal achievement is an entirely different challenge. The most successful people I work with are serious goal-achievers always creating bigger and bigger futures for themselves, their families, and their communities.

There is certainly no shortage of information on setting and achieving goals, yet so few people actually achieve their goals. Why?

The statistics overwhelmingly support goal-setting as a way to success, yet many people still today resist the process.