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Going Beyond Goal Setting
I just Googled the phrase “goal setting”, and found approximately 3,600,000 web pages that relate in some way to that phrase. This shouldn’t surprise us, because conventional wisdom is that goal setting is an important skill.
It is easy to document both through anecdotal evidence as well as through research that setting goals can help us achieve more. There are hundreds of books, tapes, speeches, workshops, and websites that will provide us with tools and processes to set goals. One would think for something as important as goal setting, with as many tools as there are available, that everyone would be a goal setter.
This however isn’t the case.
While I could fill a book with the reasons why, there is one that is very important.
People don’t set goals now because they didn’t achieve the ones they set in the past.
They’ve followed the goal setting process they learned or read about, but the seminar or book stopped at the wrong time. The seminar stopped with the setting of the goal. That is like ending the game after the first play, then going to sit on the sidelines, while the goal is out on the playing field.
My advice to you, if you can identify with what you’ve just read is to stop worrying about goal setting. And start focusing on goal achieving.
In other words, stop worrying about which goal setting model to use, or which software to track your progress with. Stop making the goal setting process the focus, and start putting the focus on goal achievement.
Here are three things you can do to put our focus on goal achievement and drastically increase your success:
1. <B>Get sick and tired.</B> It is often said that people really begin to reach new health goals when they become “sick and tired of being sick and tired.” Achieving a goal means that you want something different than you have now. To build your ongoing and sustaining drive to achieve the new item, knowledge or situation, you must become disgusted and dissatisfied with the current situation. This doesn’t mean that you should become bitter or grumpy, but rather it means to develop a healthy dissatisfaction with the way things are now (current profitability, the cycle time for new product development, or your inability to find a bathroom in Brazil).
2. <B>Get (and stay) excited about the result.</B> To sustain the challenges, setbacks and disappointments along your way to goal achievement, you must have another motivation as well. You must really want the benefits that will come to you when the new goal is achieved. Build a clear and compelling picture in your mind of what you will feel, sense, see, and believe once your goal has been achieved. Focus on the results you will gain from the goal, rather than just the goal itself. This is important because in the end this is what you are after, not “just” the goal itself. As you work towards your goal, the goal might shift, but as long as the desired results remain clear, you have improved the likelihood of achieving the end result you desire.
3. <B>Start a plan and get started.</B> Notice I didn’t say to lay out a complete plan of all the steps between you and your goal. If your goal is of any size and importance at all, it will require many steps, and it will be very difficult/impossible to identify them with any degree of certainty at the start. Too many people think they need the perfect plan. They delay starting so they can get the best information. They want to talk to one more expert, read one more book, examine two more options. Get started already! Give yourself a clear idea of a general approach, and some clear first steps. Allow yourself the luxury of knowing that the next specific steps will become clear as you stay on the path.
Doing these three things will drastically increase your success in achieving any goal you set.
Actually, let me say it more strongly. Until you have these three factors going for you in large (although potentially varying) amounts, you won’t achieve the goals you set. You will lose momentum. You will lose focus. You will lose hope. You won’t be able to overcome the first setback. And you will fall into the convenient and comfortable thinking that goal setting “doesn’t work” for you or that you need a new tool, a new technique or a new guru to help you set “better” goals.
Whether you are setting goals for yourself, the team you lead or for your organization at large, take this advice to heart.
Focus less energy on setting the perfect goal and spend more time preparing yourself for ultimate success. Stop worrying about the resolution, and start focusing on the resolve that will be required to succeed.
Doing this will bring you greater success, less frustration and will help you and your organization move closer and closer to your potential.
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Writing Smart Goals – The Smartest Tips For Setting Smart Goals
Determining Your True Goals
True goals are those goals that you will actually achieve. This does not mean that you should always make easy goals that are not challenging and easily achieved without much effort.
Nor does it mean, that part of the goal has already been partially achieved and the last section which is still awaiting achievement becomes a goal in itself. It simply means that your true goals are determined by and in sync with your mindset.
In fact, people actually set goals incorrectly in the beginning. This in itself is a major obstacle to determining and achieving your goals in the first place. Writing Smart Goals
Goal-setting is the road map for living your personal mission. This means that the goals you determine, must be in alignment with you personal mission. They must also help you achieve you mission.
From a company pointy of view, the general goals-setting model is as follows:
Staff performs tasks;
Many tasks translate into an activity;
Many activities will achieve a milestone;
Achieving one or more milestones completes a goal;
Goals make up company objective which leads to the overall company mission and ultimately bring focus to the company’s future vision.
From an individual point of view, activities lead to milestones, milestones lead to goals and goals lead to the individual’s personal mission. Milestones are significant events and /or achievements which help to monitor your progress. Writing Smart Goals
SMART Goals
Most goals are too vague whereas they need to be as specific and as detailed as possible. They need to be SMART, i.e.:
• Specific;
• Measurable;
• Achievable;
• Relevant;
• Time related.
The purpose of determining your true goals is not to control the future but rather to provide greater clarity and focus.
You goals are determined by your total collection of beliefs about reality. Any belief that has proven to be true becomes more empowering and more accurate than others.
A proper long-term goal will give you a proper long-term milestone; this gives you a proper short-term goal which comes from a proper short-term milestone; Writing Smart Goals
The general notion is that your need three long-term goals in order to achieve your personal mission. Your personal mission defines you and you should periodically review your mission statement to reflect any personal changes, as well as the changes occurring around you.
When creating a mission statement, you should utilise the KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) principle. Your statement should be short and clear, limit to one sentence, easy to memories, compelling and inspirational. However, this will only come about when you have determined your true goals. Writing Smart Goals
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