Failure to meet goals is useful in improving the likelihood of long-term success as
long as you draw useful lessons from it and feed it back into your goal setting program.
You should allow yourself to enjoy the achievement of your goals and reward yourself
appropriately.
Goal Setting Steps
Step 1 Desire is the great motivation. The powerful
force that drives you toward your goals.
Step 2 You must believe with all your heart and
have no doubts that you have the ability to achieve your goals.
Step 3 The third and most important step is to
write your goals out in complete detail, exactly as you wish to have them. Until your
goals are committed to paper, they are not goals; they are simply wishes backed by
fantasies.
Step 4 Determine all of the benefits you will
receive by achieving your goals. Write out all of the benefits you will receive and enjoy
by accomplishing your goals.
Step 5 Set a deadline. Decide exactly when you are
going to accomplish your goals and put it down on paper.
Step 6 Identify the obstacles you will have to
overcome to achieve your goals. You will discover major lingering obstacles in your mind.
Step 7 Clearly define the knowledge you will need
to learn in order to accomplish your goals.
Step 8 Take all of the details that you have
identified in step 6 and 7 and create a plan of action. Be sure and make it complete in
every little detail.
Step 9 Get a clear mental picture of your goals as
if they are already attained. Picture in your mind repeatedly seeing yourself succeeding
and achieving your goals. Just let your imagination run wild.
Step 10 Back up you plan with determination,
persistence, and a burning desire to never, never, give up until you have achieved your
goal.
Additional Tips
Make sure the goal you are working for is something you really want, not just something
that sounds good.
If you need help form someone in achieving your goal, will you have his or her
cooperation?
Write your goal on the positive instead of the negative. Work for what you want, not
for what you want to leave behind.
Write your goal out in complete detail.
Make sure your goal is high enough.
Reviewing your goals daily or weekly is crucial part of your success
and must become a part of your routine. Each morning you wake up read your list of goals
that are written in the positive aloud. Visualize the completed goal, see the new home,
smell the leather seats in your new car, feel the new smaller outfit on your body. Each
night before you go to bed repeat this process. This process will start both your
subconscious and conscious mind working towards your goal. This will also replace any of
the negative self-talk you may have and replace it with positive self-talk.