How to Set Your Goals and Stay Focused In a Changing World

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Welcome to How to Set Your Goals and Stay Focused

Most of us will have tried a form of goal setting in the past and, more often than not, will have fallen short of our targets. The most common demonstration of this phenomenon is the New Year Resolution that is often forgotten a week later or the colleague who always seems to “be giving up drinking” on their return from holiday.

A friend once told me that giving up drinking is easy, he did it a hundred times. For me writing down goals are done yearly, and this has nothing to do with Yearly Resolutions, it is simply how I have trained myself over the years to assist me in achieving those things I set out to achieve.

Some people prefer to use words like, results, outcomes, aims, objectives, dreams and hopes and wishes. In plain terms this means that the language we use has a dual role: it defines how we see the world and can be used to help change that view. The language we use is very powerful and we need to be constantly aware of this.

When setting goals, it is important that the goals are measurable and detailed. Using words like dreams or hopes suggest that you are too vague and non-specific.

Techniques to Assist Goal Setting

There are some simple but proven techniques that can assist you in setting your goals. By following these, it is possible to enhance the probability of their achievement.

Key criteria for goals

Goals must:

• Be written down.
• Have target dates by which you will achieve them.
• Be expressed in the present tense, as if they were already real. So the goal is that ‘I have a tidy desk’ not ‘I want a tidy desk’ or ‘one day I will have a tidy desk’.
• Be reviewed daily – this keeps the goal at the forefront of your mind so you’re constantly aware of it.
• Have a clearly defined destination – the tidy desk, for example.
• Have a means of measuring progress towards their achievement –first the filing then the ‘in tray’.
• Contain a tangible reward for achievement – celebrate the fact you have achieved your tidy desk.
• Have a defined support infrastructure – who is going to help you get to your goal? Perhaps you will ask your family not to disturb you for an evening while you tidy your desk?

Success in reaching a goal often involves many strategies. You need to make use of all of these strategies and concepts that together increase the effectiveness and likelihood of you achieving your goal. While it is important that you stretch your horizons, it’s also important that you learn to recognize what and who you are and what you are capable of achieving. To do this you must let go of your limiting beliefs. To learn more just go and click on the product.