How To Set Goal
Goal Setting For Success

If only everybody knew how to set goal plans effectively. Now they can with our Goal Setting For Success tool for aspiring leaders. In the following information, you'll learn how to break down your goals into small achievable steps.

Once you've done this, your first question is probably something like, "Okay, now what do I do?" or "How will I ever accomplish such a great feat?".

The next step, as you learn how to set goal plans, is to identify all of the smaller tasks that will need to be achieving in order to reach your ultimate goal.

To help you identify and organize these smaller tasks, we utilize the Three "C" Process, which includes:

1. CAPTURE - Sit down in a quiet area, which a pen and notebook, where you can think and write peacefully. Picture clearly the goal you will achieve. Picture the goal waiting for you on the other side of a wide river that has many large boulders sticking out of the water. These are your stepping stones to your success. Determine clearly just how many stepping stones you will need in order to realistically meet your objective.

   Then, begin to name each stepping stone. Each stone is now a subheading under your larger goal outline.

   Once you have identified the stepping stones, you will need to take each stone one at a time and identify every single task that will be associated with the stepping stone. Make your list as long and as broad as necessary. We'll work to condense the list next.

2. COMBINE - Once you've created your list of projects (stepping stones) and associated tasks, you are probably wondering what you've gotten yourself into. Indeed the list is long. But you've already completed the most difficult part of how to set goal plans. You've got your raw M.A.P. or Master Action Plan down on paper.

   Next you need to review all your tasks together and see if you can't combine some of the tasks in order to leverage your time and get the most out of every hour you invest. For instance, if you one task requires you to make a trip to another city, ask yourself what other tasks you might be able to complete during the same trip, or while you sit in the airport or on the plane.

   The art of combining your tasks will provide you with an emotional boost as you begin to quickly check off each task as it's completed. Soon you'll be making your way across that river to your ultimate goal.

3. COMMIT - The third "C" is provided here simply as a reminder. As you begin to tackle each project and every single task, you WILL run into barriers. Expect them in advance. Try to anticipate these obstacles. Complete a "what if" exercise to help yourself to prepare for things to not always go according to plan.

   Commit yourself to conquering your fears and overcoming any obstacle that rears it's ugly heard. As you face this barriers and overcome each one, you'll grow stronger in your confidence, you'll continue to build your physical and emotional foundation and you will truly become a warrior in the great battle of life.

By using this three-step process, you'll find yourself managing multiple projects very effectively. Most people are only able to focus on a limited number of items at one time. Because you now have a "system" for success, you'll be achieving results at lightening speed and quickly passing by your astonished peers.

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The expectation of winning, even though we cannot see how or when, is a tremendous sustainer, a wonderful stimulus to effort and a real dynamic force.

Hope and determination are mighty factors in the life race.

"Expect eternally what you desire; and act always as if every expectation were coming true," says Christian D. Larson.

Your expectation opens or closes the doors of your supply. If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your results will correspond with your expectations.

The vast majority of people who fail, anticipate failure - they expect it. Long before they failed, they had a fear of failure, pictured it in their minds, and this fear and mental picturing sapped much of their ability and wasted much of the mental power that if rightly used, would have brought them success.

In learning how to set goal plans, you must not allow negative images into your minds eye. It will only weaken your chances for victory.

Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes said that the important thing is not where you stand but the direction in which you are facing. In other words, it is not your environment; not the place from which you start and not how far you have gone, but which way you face mentally that counts.

If you wish to change your life, change first your outlook upon life. Doing so will change the direction you face, and the life you lead.

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» CHAPTER 11    Keeping It Real
Successful goal planners believe in their ideas. They believe firmly that their goals are achievable and they prove it to themselves by completing the goal planning process.

» CHAPTER 12    Get-To-It-Tive-Ness!
Goal Setting For Success emphasizes the importance of taking action. Those who are quick to initiate each step of the goal planning process are sure to succeed.

» SECTION 12.1    Success Is Right Now
Tomorrow never comes. Procrastination is the killer of many hopes and dreams. Effective goal planning minimizes your desire to put thing off.

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