The setting of goals, and then working hard and smart to achieve them, is a significant habit that separates the 5% of people who are in successful in life from the 95% who are not. If you are currently within that 95%, then by learning how to properly set and achieve goals, you can become successful too.
It is important to pay attention to the working hard and smart part of goal setting, as simply setting goals is not enough. Plenty of people within the unsuccessful 95% regularly set goals, but then they forget about them, which means that they may as well not have bothered to set them in the first place.
A self-assessment is necessary then: Are you setting goals? Are your working hard? Are you working smart?
If you answered ‘no’ to any of those questions, or even if you answered ‘yes’ to all of them but things are still not working out for you, then it is time to change your approach.
A goal setting system that you should consider is one created by Lanny Bassham, who is a 3 times World Champion & Olympic Gold Medalist. An summary of that system is as follows…
1) Decide exactly what you want.
2) Decide by what date you want to achieve it by.
3) Establish what benefits you stand to gain from it.
4) Determine the obstacles in your way.
5) Evaluate what you will lose (time, people, money, etc.) in your pursuit of it.
6) Create a plan of action.
7) Create a daily routine / timetable based on your overall plan of action.
Start now, not at some specified future date.
9) Have future goals in place to push you on after achieving the first one.
10) Never stop until you have achieved what you set out to do.
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