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Get On Target With Your Goals!
Goal setting should be your number one priority if you don’t already have a target set of personal and/or professional goals. Not having clearly defined goals is akin to meandering around for days saying: “I’m hungry,” while never getting anything to eat! It’s like the scatter-brained cowboy who jumped on his horse and ran off in all directions!
Your goals are something to aim for, something to focus on, something to center your thoughts around. Your thoughts are what bring things into reality!
When you combine these simple goal setting parameters with my singular problem solving technique you are basically invincible. Actually, the only ingredient that can make your success invincible is YOU and the tenacity and voracity to achieve your goals that YOU bring into the equation.
There are certain parameters that make goal setting particularly rewarding. It’s like they say in weight lifting: “you control the weights, don’t let the weights control you.” That is to say don’t improperly lift too much weight or you might get injured. Same with goals: you control your goals, don’t let them control you! Set goals that are manageable and realistic. Don’t live under your goals as if they’re some dominating parent figure either. Feel relaxed and positive about your goals, vision them as being completed, feel them being fulfilled and you will fulfill them.
The parameters of success-driven goals is that they should be visionary, measurable, and flexible.
Visionary. Your goals should be in harmony with your vision. They should reflect your end-result state that you are intending to attract and be created to manifest that end. A goal that is visionary in nature brings you to life! It energizes your character and lights up your personality. A visionary goal is how you see yourself in your goal-achieved, successful state. This visionary aspect to goal setting is primarily long-term, you will use your short term goal setting to get there via the measurability and flexibility of your goals.
People thought the Wright Brothers were nuts; people thought Bill Gates was nuts for his visionary goals! Not everyone has the capacity to have the type of revolutionary, culture changing, globally impacting goals that they and others like them had but your goals, no matter how large or small, are important!
Measurable. You should be able to keep track of the progress to your goals. Set a timeline; brainstorm intermediate steps that you are going to take to achieve your goals. I use a checklist to keep track of my goals. I list them down and have my own system of staying on top of my progress. You know goals are measurable if you can say that you definitively either accomplished them or not.
Flexible. We don’t often get to check off each and every goal, that’s ok. Goals should be flexible enough to be changed, edited, deleted, or folded into another goal. That’s just life! The thing I constantly come back to is that we get to say what we want with the LOA, but not how we get it. Having flexible goals is a good practice so that we can allow the Universe the wiggle room to tell us when WE need to step aside and change. Being overly rigid is never a good thing. I have a system where I have three different methods of checking off any single goal on my goal checklist, it works a charm!
Long-term vs. short-term. You should have both long-term and short-term goals. Short-term goals are no more than a year out and long-term goals should be no more than five years out. Short-term goals are much more lineal and easily broken down into monthly, weekly, and daily targets. Long-term goals will look more like your vision, the larger-than-life (visionary) things you would like to accomplish. These long-term goals set your heart on fire and get you motivated daily to reach there in the NOW; your short-term goals are often derived from the opportunities you attract through the visioning process and being a keen observer. Short-term goals also come from applying creative problem solving techniques.
I hope this article has benefited you! Thank you for reading this article and being a part of NOW-Power!
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