Goal Setting

As discussed on the previous topic of Self Development Plan,one of the tools is about goal setting.

Goal setting needs no prerequisite of being someone famous, nor a professional athlete or the CEO of a multibillion company just for us to set our goals. Instead, what you need to be is an individual who desires SUCCESS - be in your career, family or perhaps with personal finances which everyone dreamed of.

Setting goals is simply an organized personal planning process. A reliable procedures for identifying something you want to achieve - whether a long-term one or a short-term goal, thus it may be your personal life or your profession. Along with the process of setting your goals, it gives you the discipline you need to achieve real and lasting success.

To begin with, the first step is to take some time to decide what direction you want your life to take. From that way of discipline, goal setting helps you focused on your chosen direction and could serve as an access point any time you feel you have strayed from your determined path. In this way, it could lead to another benefits which is to help you more accurate in identifying obstacles that could serve as storms, or walls in your path to success and happiness.

When you do this, the immediated effect will be the gratification when you set a goal, stick with it and achieve it. You only have to do this once to know that the fulfillment and pleasure you derive from achieving your goals is a strong catalyst for returning to and relying on, strong goal-setting techniques and method again and again.

When you start goal setting and achieving them, try to take note of areas that improved in your self. The confidence level will surely havea  positive impact on your life. Along with the improvement of your confidence level, you will also have a better understanding of your weakness and strength, while simultaneously developing a stronger sense of accomplishment one that grows with every single goal achieved. Now, talk about a great return on your investment without money being involve.

An effective goal setting, you need to understand the process and variety of levels. It is best to start with the bigger picture, or say your long term goals. These goals are then broken down into smaller ones, which of course represents your routine goals for you to start in achieving your life-long goal. 

Once you start this procedure, it won't take long for you to see the outcome, and including of breaking down the most complicated goals in your life, break them down into smaller goals until you reach the bigger picture and achieved your lifetime goals.

When you achieve the bigger picture, you may find that the procedure of doing it becomes easy and more beneficial if you can classify each goal into a specific category. In an instance, you may have to take it down those various columns with headers such as career, financial, family, relationship, etc. Then, organize it with your long term goal accordingly.

Moreover, there are a lot of information or resources that you can rely on when setting your goals in this generation. Tips, techniques and methods are uttered by some of the ost successful people in the world who started out by achieving some useful information as well and then moved forward with a list that helped them fulfill to high level of success and happiness.

Just like you and me, these people simply decided what they want to achieve and took their moment of creating a process and achieving their overall plan for their goal - a method that creates some of the most successful business men, most celebrated athletes, and most famous public figures.

Begin today and act earlier...and achieve happiness and success...stick with it..and live with it..