Goal Setting

“Success is steady progress toward one’s personal goals”

~ Jim Rohn

The power of setting goals is very important if you want to succeed in anything, it is essential to success. There are many books and audio books on this subject, but we will go straight forward to the steps of setting goals.

To use this technique in this area, there are couple of ingredients which are necessary;

• You must first identify a clear, specific and precise Goal ( for example if you want to improve your relationship with either member of family, spouse, girlfriend etc., you must be specific on what you want to improve say like I want to have a better communication with my spouse on spending money).
• Your goal must be something that is attainable, realistic-perhaps very ambitious, but within the realm of possibility or in other words it has to be something that your conscious mind accept it as something that can be attained, setting a goal of building a Time machine while you are not well informed on this subject will only lead you into failure and disappointment.
• And it has to be something that you truly desire. There was a story about a young  who wanted to know the mysteries of the universe , so he went far in the East and asked one of the masters;  “ I wish to become a student and learn all the secrets and mysteries of the universe “the master took the young man behind the head with a strong grip and submerged his head in the water, the young man fought so hard to get back into the air so that he could breathe again, then after a while the master raised the young man’s head, and the young man asked the master; “why did you do that for?”, the master told him; “what did you wanted the most when you were under the water?”  young man said; “of course I needed air” then master told him;” If you have a strong desire to become a student as you did for the air then you are ready to begin”  the young man packed up his stuff and left. The story shows the importance of desire and focus towards what you goals.

The Steps for goal setting

1. You must first crystallize your thinking and formulate the goals with desire. Sit down and take time to think clearly on what you want to accomplish, or something that you have always wanted to accomplish, people say proper diagnose is half the cure, if you can take your time to clearly decide what you want to accomplish, the means of accomplishing it will follow.
2. Next step after clearly writing down what your goals are is to write down the means and steps of accomplishing it, write down how you are going to accomplish your goals, set a time limit, it is amazing when you start using your brain power and appreciate what it is capable of, brain storm on different ideas how fast you want to accomplish it step by step.
3. The final and most important step is to get down into business by acting on what you have planned.  Pay the price, discipline yourself by making yourself do what you want to do, there are always distractions and obstacles but you must never lose focus. Napoleon Hill said “Before success comes in any man’s life, he’s sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That’s exactly what the majority of men do. ”