goal setting

Top Tips for Setting Powerful Goals

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Goal setting is a powerful tool to help us get everything we want in life. The act of setting goals provides us with focus, and it shapes our dreams. It provides us with the ability to determine the exact actions we need to perform to achieve everything we want in life. We all need powerful, long-term goals to help us get past the short-term obstacles that life often throws at us. The more powerful our goals are, the more we can act on and guarantee we will be able to achieve them.

Evaluate and Reflect

The only way for you to decide what you want in the future and how you’ll get there is for you to know where you are right now and what your current level of satisfaction with your life is. First, you’ll need to take some time to think through your current situation, and then ask whether you’re okay with it or not. Evaluating your current situation gives you an objective way to look at all you’ve accomplished, and it shows you where you are currently, so you can determine where you need to go.

Define Your Goals and Dreams

One of the great things that we’ve been given is the desire to dream of a better life and the ability to set goals to live out those dreams. Everyone has dreams. They may be right on the surface, or they might be buried deep down inside of you. Take the time to be quiet and reflect on your dreams and determine how you can accomplish them.

Have Accountability

When you share your dreams and goals with others, they have the power to hold you accountable by asking you to keep them updated on your progress. Accountability helps to put some teeth into the process. A goal isn’t as powerful if you don’t have at least one other person who can hold you accountable.

Set S.M.A.R.T. Goals

When setting goals, they need to be smart, which means they need to be:

* Specific

* Measurable

* Attainable

* Realistic

* And Have a Timeline

Setting S.M.A.R.T. goals will ensure that you have the tools you need to achieve them and that you are successful in reaching them.

 

Everyone wants to make a difference in their lives and accomplish something big. When you set powerful goals, you can increase your chances of getting everything you have ever wanted in your life. By sticking with your goals, you will be one step closer to being the person that you always wanted to be.

How To Experiment Your Way To Success

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Just because you’ve planned your goals right down to the last detail doesn’t mean you shouldn’t experiment and see what else works. Maybe what you’ve envisioned during the planning stage isn’t going to work in real life, so you look around for alternatives. But you don’t know which of the available options you’ve found is going to be a good fit for your business or life goals.

So, what do you do then?

You experiment.

Successful people have all experimented their way to success. If one method’s not working, they use another one. They don’t shut their brains down and surrender if one method’s not working.

Let’s use driving as an example:

You’re trying to get to a city 1,000 miles away and you’ve got your entire trip mapped out. You’ve got a good old-fashioned map with you, or maybe an app on your phone. Along the way, you discover the map is not updated, and the roads are blocked for some reason. You don’t know which way to go and there’s nobody else there.

So you drive around, you explore until you find the correct road that’s going to take you back to the highway and get you closer to your destination!

See, that wasn’t so bad. If you’ve got plenty of gas (your motivation), you can pretty much go anywhere you like. You can always gas up when you’re running low so you can continue your journey.

Another benefit of experimentation is that you can have fun, and you learn something new. Going with the previous example, you learn new roads, you learn which road is going to take you to where you want to go. That’s new knowledge for you.

You may have planned for the journey, but it’s almost always never going to go according to plan. Just enjoy the process. You’re in control of your journey – you’re sitting in the driver’s seat. Don’t let anybody else dictate where you’re going to go.

You can ask for help when you get lost, and you can take their advice, or you can explore the back roads and learn as much as you can about the location and your ultimate destination.

And that’s it! That’s basically how you experiment your way to success!

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