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How To Set A Goal in 3 Easy Steps

By David Dutch

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Published: 06Apr2009
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Everyone wants to feel successful in their lives, no matter what their background or status level, to do so you must be able to set personal goals that you will achieve. By that I do not mean setting goals that you could achieve without applying effort, they do not give you a feeling of success.

It is a well known fact that over 90% of the population have never set a goal in their lives, at least that is what they say when in fact they unwittingly set goals every day of their lives.

Setting personal goals can be a short cut to success, it is definitely one of the most powerful and effective techniques that will not only help you attain your goal but also to feel successful.

You don't set goals? Well let us look at goal setting from a slightly different angle. Have you ever booked a holiday? That is a goal - just look at what you have to do in order to prepare so that you are ready to embark on the journey that will successfully take you to your holiday destination and you are seeing the steps you must take to realize every personal goal you will ever set in your life.

Let's break this down into steps to explore how going on holiday is equivalent in goal setting terms to whatever major goal you could wish for yourself.

1. In order to set a goal you need to know where you want to end up, what you really want. Remembering the story of Alice through the looking glass when she tumbled down the path and stopped at a crossroads, not knowing which road to take she looked up and saw the Cheshire Cat, she asked him which road to take, he replied "Where do you want to go?" "I don't know," said Alice "Then it does not matter which road you take", the cat grinned. When you planned your holiday you knew exactly where you wanted to go and Hey Presto! You got there. If only you looked that way at the rest of your life and realised just how many goals you set each day that are successfully accomplished because you know where you want to end up and plan to get there.

2. I don't know about you but I find I remember things best when I write them down I think it is called motorised learning or something like that. So when I write my goals down I remember them and I am able to repeat them over and over in my mind. When I do a strange thing happens, things happen that help drive me and my actions towards my goals and I achieve each one. Unlike most teachers of goal setting I do not encourage you to set a deadline for achieving a goal. You see if I have a deadline I get stressed out as the time approaches and goal achievement does not happen if you are stressed, to achieve the goals just see below.

3. Now for the big secret in goal achievement. This secret is so great I do not want you to tell anyone else it is only between you and me. In setting a goal I know it will never come about unless I follow this secret, the secret to successful goal planning and achievement is ----- wait for it ----- to take ACTION. So many people say they want to do something and then do nothing in the hope that a magic genie will appear and make their dreams come true. The difference between a dreamer and one who fantasises is a dreamer dreams and then takes action to make the dream happen one who fantasises, dreams and does nothing but dream.

As long as you bear these simple steps in mind you will achieve your goals although there are another two magic ingredients that when you add them to this mix guarantees that you will achieve every goal you ever set no matter how big, and how far outside of your present comfort zone, but that is for another day or if you cannot wait you could click on the link in the box below to find out.

Achieving goals is the foundation to a successful life whether tose goals are to provide adequately for your family or build a business each has their foundation in goal setting and achievement. You can find the technique that I have taught for over 25 years at In The Footsteps of Giants it could be the solution to what you seek in your life.

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