Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Fun Facts on How to Write Goals That Will Effectively Affect Your Life and Business

February 8, 2010 by James Franklin  
Filed under Goals

No matter what you are striving for, there are a couple of easy things to learning how to write goals that you can actually achieve. These tricks will succeed regardless of whether you want to lose weight, walk a 5K, or tone up your out of condition arms. These actions to achievement are to make your dreams possible and as precise as possible.

If your goals are not realistic, then you are certain to not succeed no matter what you do. When you finally understand you have failed, the setback can be crushing.

Let’s take weight loss as a case in point. If you state you would like to lose thirty pounds by the year end and it is already mid-November you have practically no chance of truly attaining that goal. When the year end arrives you will be dissatisfied no matter how much weight you did manage to lose.

A sensible choice may be to say you want to lose 6 pounds in that period of time. This is something that could actually take place, and in fact you could lose some extra pounds and do better than the goal.

Your odds of success are much higher with the lower, more sensible goal. Yet, it still doesn’t hurt to continue the hope of losing a few extra pounds in your mind. This may motivate you to work harder, growing your odds of success all the more.

If you arrive at your goal of 6 pounds you will feel successful, but if you reach the higher mental goal you will feel an added flood of satisfaction. Either way, you come out a victor.

So, how do you track your progress and gauge success in the end? The second tip is to make sure your goals are as explicit as possible.

Consider our earlier example of losing six pounds by the end of the year. A generalized goal may be that you want to look beautiful on New Year’s Eve. There is very little here by which to measure progress.

To get specific, you might improve this goal to say you want to lose 6 pounds and fit into a specific dress for New Year’s Eve. As long as the dress size is realistic, you can now assess progress by trying on the dress occasionally and you will know accurately when you meet the goal.

These two tips to implementing how to write goals that end in success depend on your knowing accurately what you in fact want. Once you know where you want to go, you can set exact and realistic goals which will eventually lead to that destination.

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