GOAL SETTING

Some important quotations on Goal setting

To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We want to set the goals that our heart conceives, that our mind believes and that our bodies will carry out
Jim Rohn
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
Don't start tomorrow until tomorrow starts. Take care of today as we only get one go at
David Bryan
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Abraham Lincoln
The tragedy of life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
Benjamin Mays
Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
The most important thing about goals is having one.
Geoffry F. Abert

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Zig Zigler
Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.
Scott Reed
You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it.
Lucinda Basset

Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Harway Macey
All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
Norman Vincent Peale
For me, goals are my road map to the life I want. They have helped me accomplish things I once thought were impossible.
Catherine Pulsifer

A goal is the end toward which effort is directed. Goals are dreams and wants except a goal is more specific.

 The purpose of goals is to give you something that you want to enhance your life in some way, so the most important thing you need to know about goals is that you ought to have some.
Setting goal is something easy to do, but keeping them in your mind will be another story. A lot of people know how to set their goals and they know what they want to accomplish in their lives, however, they are not keeping these goals in their mind.

In other words, we have to consistently reviewing your goals from time to time. If possible, review our goals once in the morning after we wake up and once at night time before we go to bed. What we need to do is just to read our goals, affirm them and if possible, visualize about them.

We must link our goals into our subconscious so that we will take action automatically to achieve them.

This is why reviewing our goal consistently is so important. When we review and think about our goals consistently, we are actually making it a habit to think about it. And in the same time, linking what we want to accomplish in our life into our subconscious mind.
Goal setting is one of the most powerful techniques that we can use to help we accomplish what we really want in your life.

The problem is that most people still fail to create the life they want even with the help of goal setting. Why?
The answer might be we don’t know how goal setting really works. We see, by simply writing down what we want to have in your life on a piece of paper is not the magic step that will help us making it come true.

The main problem most people face with goal setting is that we cannot stay focused with our goals all the time.

In fact, one of the reasons goal setting works wonderfully is because it helps people to stay focused in their daily lives. Setting a goal will lead us and direct us toward the place we want to end up.

As for those who don’t have any goal, they will never bother about it. This is what separates successful people and super achiever from ordinary people.

So the key to successful goal setting is to stay focused in our goals until we conditioned them into our subconscious mind so that we’ll think about our goals automatically without having to remind ourselves about it.

1. Use Affirmation: - write down our affirmations on a card and put it inside our pocket
2. Write down our Goals
3. Create a Vision Board
4. There Are Many Ways To Do This, Be Creative!
Yes, there are many ways how we can accomplish this, we just have to be creative and make our goals as tangible as possible
5. If we fail to achieve our goals, it is mainly because of this ‘secret’.
Many people set their goal to be financially independent, but most of them fail to make it come true. Why is this so?
The reason is simple; it is because achieving their financial goal is NOT their main definite purpose in life.
Money is just the byproduct or the results of our action. Money is not going to solve your problems. It is true that you need money to buy cars, houses, boats, and more. However, it is not an end.
What we truly want to get from our financial goal is the feeling that it can give you
6. Getting it right: Means goal vs. End goal
7. The detail-ness: - When setting goals, the more detailed and descriptive we make the goal the better. Remember, clarity is power. Go further than the what, why, how, when, who questions. Make it as detail as possible.
Making our goal setting very descriptive will give us more motivation and determination to achieve it. By describing it clearly, it no longer just seems like a wish or longing, but rather something that is possible.
8. Create positive motivation to inspire us to take action.
9. Make use of punish and reward system.
10. Spend 15 minutes everyday to visualize the achievement of our goals.
11. Make a public commitment about our goals.
12. Never forget about the reasons why we want to achieve our goals.
13. Never Lose Sight of our Goal
14. Don’t Procrastinate

Types of Goals

 Long Term Goals:
10-year, 5-year and 1-year goals
 Short Term Goals:
goals for the next 9 months, 6 months and 3 months
 Immediate Goals:
1-30 days from now

"TIME IS LIFE. TO WASTE YOUR TIME IS TO WASTE YOUR LIFE; TO MANAGE YOUR TIME IS TO MANAGE YOUR LIFE." -- ALAN LAKEIN

F.R.A.M.E
 Fantasize - Dream your wildest dreams and make sure that your goals match your values. Ask yourself: what do you want to be doing in 1 year? 5 years? What kind of person do I want to be?
 Reality - Fantasies can become reality, depending on how hard you are willing to work for them.
 Aim - Define your goal(s) by striking a balance between Fantasy and Reality; set a high but realistic goal.
 Method – Be truthful to yourself by narrowing your choices or goals to the ones you really intend to accomplish. Don’t be afraid to ask for help.
 Evaluation - Process the results, but don’t make it the last step; evaluation should be on going.
S.M.A.R.T

 The Goal should be SPECIFIC enough so that we know exactly for what we are striving.
A goal must be MEASURABLE. It should have concrete facts. We should be able to answer very specifically, when and how we will know we attained our goal
 ACTION-ORIENTED, declaring positive activity that will produce results.
 A goal must be REALISTIC. Challenging ourselves is an important part of goal setting. We want to aim high; however, we also need to be realistic.
 TANGIBLE meaning concrete and not vague.

Steps toward Setting Effective Goals

1. Set Goals
2. Identify possible strategies or objectives to reach each goal.
3. Select the best strategies
4. Outline specific plans to accomplish each strategy.
5. Motivation
6. Commitment
7. BE FLEXIBLE

The Benefits of Setting Goals

 Suffer less from stress and anxiety
 Concentrate better
 Show more self-confidence
 Perform better
 Are happier

Dr.KESIRAJU RAMPRASAD
Kesirajuramprasad@gmail.com