Your Role in Goal Setting
When you are setting your goals, you have a key role in defining them.
You have to be practical, original and natural in setting the goals keeping in view of your self-awareness.
If you are aware of your knowledge, skills and attitude or abilities, you will be able to set smart goals for yourself which you can achieve with ease and comfort without much effort.
Once you have set realistic, measurable and time-bound goals, you have made a great beginning.
You are miles ahead of the person who has not, but your work is still far from finished.
The secret of achieving is thinking and feeling.
You must not leave your goal alone up in the air, as it were, but you must surround it with a web, with a network of thoughts and feelings.
This not only keeps you from getting side-tracked, but constantly reinforces your motivation.
Here are some points to ponder when setting you goals: Put the list of your goals where you can read them daily.
(next to your mirror, or on your wall or desk).
Frequently think of your goals.
Why are they important to you? Why work to achieve them? Use your imagination.
The wonderful power to project our vision ahead can help us to create a better future.
Before men designed the command capsule and lunar landing craft that went to the moon, someone had to imagine this odd-looking craft.
You too, should imagine how you will feel if you reach your goal? Do not allow yourself merely to say 'good' but think in detail of just what it will feel like.
Then imagine how you will feel if you do not attain your goal.
Do not just say 'bad' but picture vividly your feelings of disappointment.
Be realistic and picture the obstacles you will have to face: obstacles within you and obstacles without.
What are they and how will you overcome them? What specific action steps will you take and when? Write them down.
Remember that the longest journey starts with one small step.
What helps are at hand to aid you in achieving your goal? What people and other resources can you call upon? Talk your goals over with others, especially with those who are skilled in the field of your choice.
Your goals must be specific.
You have to set specific goals which you can achieve with focus and determination.
Your goals must be measurable.
Goals are not just to realise.
They must be measurable to assess the results and span of achievement.
Goals must be attainable.
You have to make your goals practical so that they can be attainable with the knowledge, skills and attitude you possess.
Goals must be realistic.
Goals must be real and should not be impractical which cannot be achieved.
Your goals must be time bound.
A goal which is not achieved within a time period will lose its usefulness and may not be able to give you desired results.
To conclude, goal setting is a reflection of your abilities and attitude.
Keep your goals high and keep going realising your goals one after another.
You have to be practical, original and natural in setting the goals keeping in view of your self-awareness.
If you are aware of your knowledge, skills and attitude or abilities, you will be able to set smart goals for yourself which you can achieve with ease and comfort without much effort.
Once you have set realistic, measurable and time-bound goals, you have made a great beginning.
You are miles ahead of the person who has not, but your work is still far from finished.
The secret of achieving is thinking and feeling.
You must not leave your goal alone up in the air, as it were, but you must surround it with a web, with a network of thoughts and feelings.
This not only keeps you from getting side-tracked, but constantly reinforces your motivation.
Here are some points to ponder when setting you goals: Put the list of your goals where you can read them daily.
(next to your mirror, or on your wall or desk).
Frequently think of your goals.
Why are they important to you? Why work to achieve them? Use your imagination.
The wonderful power to project our vision ahead can help us to create a better future.
Before men designed the command capsule and lunar landing craft that went to the moon, someone had to imagine this odd-looking craft.
You too, should imagine how you will feel if you reach your goal? Do not allow yourself merely to say 'good' but think in detail of just what it will feel like.
Then imagine how you will feel if you do not attain your goal.
Do not just say 'bad' but picture vividly your feelings of disappointment.
Be realistic and picture the obstacles you will have to face: obstacles within you and obstacles without.
What are they and how will you overcome them? What specific action steps will you take and when? Write them down.
Remember that the longest journey starts with one small step.
What helps are at hand to aid you in achieving your goal? What people and other resources can you call upon? Talk your goals over with others, especially with those who are skilled in the field of your choice.
Your goals must be specific.
You have to set specific goals which you can achieve with focus and determination.
Your goals must be measurable.
Goals are not just to realise.
They must be measurable to assess the results and span of achievement.
Goals must be attainable.
You have to make your goals practical so that they can be attainable with the knowledge, skills and attitude you possess.
Goals must be realistic.
Goals must be real and should not be impractical which cannot be achieved.
Your goals must be time bound.
A goal which is not achieved within a time period will lose its usefulness and may not be able to give you desired results.
To conclude, goal setting is a reflection of your abilities and attitude.
Keep your goals high and keep going realising your goals one after another.
