Achieving Goals – 5 Smart Steps to Rock
Achieving Goals is all about attitude. It definitely takes time to build an attitude to achieve smart goals. Success is viral, you achieve it and it replicates. A winning habit is never a coincidence but a result of hard work that one has put in all past years. When you set your sight, all you should aim is your Goal. Once you know what you want to achieve you are very much into the Game. It is certainly better than not knowing where you want to go in life.
Setting Goal is an easy part. Everyone loves to do it. But true test of a person character comes when the game begins. You
1) Set Goals
2) Work On it
3) Lose Interest
4) Get distracted
5) Start something else
And when you look back, all you get is Disappointment. Years pass by and all you are left with is a heavy heart that reminds you of a failure . Nevertheless, people do stand up again and try mostly but to fail again.
To be true, there is nothing wrong with this. It is a part of human nature. The problem is not in the way one losses but it is in the way one sets up himself to achieve a Goal. Achieving Goal is a Journey. You increase your chances by enjoying the journey. Stop enjoying it and you are up for failure.
There are 5 Smart steps which will help you achieve you Goals. These are more than essence of enjoying the journey rather than craving hard for final outcome. Follow them and Success would come faster to you.
1) Break Big Goal – It is always advisable to break your big goals into smaller ones. It is like going on a long journey and finalizing places where you would stop to spend your nights. Anticipate the path you would take to achieve the goals and divide it into smaller parts. It is important that the breakup should coincide with the resources you have in hand and the incremental benefit you would get after achieving smaller smart goals. Success replicates and each small goal helps you to achieve the next one.
2) Give Realistic Timeline to Each Goal- Don’t strain yourself by giving timeliness which you know would fail you. It is better to be slow and reach a goal than not to reach at all. It is also important that timelines should not be so long that you lose interest in the goal. It has to be the optimum level which should keep you interested and should keep the flame alive. Setting realistic timelines and than beating them gives an added thrust to aim higher.

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3) Achieve It- Now that goal has been set and timeline has been given, do your best to achieve it. Leave no stone unturned to make it happen. When goal is small and timeline is realistic you get kick to complete it in time and with great zeal. Not only the success makes you feel good about yourself but also helps you to prepare for the next step.
4) Repeat the Process – When one small goal is achieved than go for the second. Depending upon the progress you have made there is no harm in working through the plan for next set of goals or timeliness. The aim should be to implement your learning and see if it can help the next goals in any manner. Generally it happens that the wisdom you get helps you develop a rocking attitude. Learn with each step.
5) Celebrate Each Win- Throw off stress and celebrate each win. It is like taking a rest before starting each morning. The celebration can be in any form but the spirit should be the one that inspires you to take the next thing head on. Let the joy erupt from inside you so that there is a space available for next one to seep in.
Breaking goals into smaller parts has always helped me. It is the smartest thing one can do when one has set himself to achieve big goals in life. This can be from increasing your net worth to targeting an overall personality- Breaking Big Goals into small helps you Rock.
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Very good article on goal setting. Two observations that I’ve noticed from my 10 plus years of providing strategic planning/goal setting for private industry and individuals is that
a)Many people from all walks of life don’t really know what they want out of life or their goals. I receive responses (to achieve world peace OR an “abundant lifestyle” but what does that look like and mean? More importantly how do you develop your client a road map to help get him/her there?
b) Secondly even if your client does know what they want re. their goals-there is such a disconnect between “wanting” and “believing” in themselves to make it happen. Anybody can write down their goals on paper-but what percent will actually achieve their goals?
This is where more work needs to be done. Because of this fact, several years ago I developed the ICPRA (Idealize, Conceptualize, Prioritize, Realize & Actualize) Model for goal-setting. ICPRA moves oves clients through various stages in helping them not only understand the overall goal setting process-but more importantly-instills in the client to have the faith and belief in themselves to actually make the needed and necessary changes in their lives to live a more fulfilled life.
All the Best-
Wayne
Remember: “The only Unfulfilled Goals in Your Life are the Ones you Never Attempt”
Very True Wayne and Thanks for sharing your views. This is infact a complete process which involves series of steps right from introspection to execution. I hope your model must be capturing the essence of it.
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