Thursday, June 17, 2010

Tips for Achieving Your Goals

Setting your goals is just one thing, getting yourself to work on the goals is another thing and actually the most important thing. Setting goals is great but until you work on those goals, merely setting them is not worth the time it took you to set them. Developing the ability to work on your goal is what give life to your goals and turn them into reality. So, here are a few tips that will help motivate and focus your energy on working your goals.


1. Make your goals tangible and visible. Most of us already know that it is vitally important to write your goals down. Writing down your goal put life into it.
It’s no longer just a thought! It’s becomes a commitment. Now, here is something you need to do that will help you to want to work on your goal. Make your goals tangible and visible.
When writing down your goal, describe what you to achieve in complete details. Make your goals as specific as you can. After writing your goal down in complete details find a way to make it visible. You can have it printed and paste in somewhere you always see it. You can also print it on your business card and put it in your wallet. Or better still, you can print it so it would fit a picture frame, then frame it and put it on your desktop. This will help you to stay focused on your goal and create a clear mental image of what you want.



2. Ask your, why do I want to achieve your goal? This important because if you have a strong why you want to reach your goal, you’ll be most likely willing to work on achieving them. The truth is that, the stronger your reason for achieving your goals, the stronger will be your motivation towards achieving the goal.
Once you’ve defined your reason for wanting to achieve your goal, write it down and find the time to read it daily. This will help keep you focused and motivated.

3. Have a plan. The most difficult thing about achieving your goals is getting started on the goals. Develop a simply plan that helps you work your goals. Here is how to develop a plan that will focus your energy and help to motivate you to work your dream. Every night write down a small task for the next day, this will help make working your goal easier. The trick is to set small goals that you work on daily that leads to achieving your overall goals.
Let’s say your goal is to write a book and you decided to write a page every day. Your small task will read: “Write a page of my new book.”
Yes, just one page, everyday. It would take you a few hours. And once you get started you will actually find out that you won’t mind even doing more than you planned.

4. Start working. A powerful idea that will help you work your goal is to tell yourself: “Now is the time to work!” And actually get started on working your goals. Most people waste their entire life waiting for perfect conditions or perfect opportunity before they began working on their goals, unfortunately, such things don’t exist, and so they end their life never doing anything. If you are going to achieve your goals, this very second is the only perfect moment to start working
towards your goals. No, it’s not tomorrow or next week or the first day of the
month. Right now is the time to start, so start working your goals.

5. Make working your goals fun. Are you the person who always puts things off and promises himself to do it later? Here is an idea that will help you. Make a game out of working your goals.
Challenge yourself! Set a record how many words you can write in an hour. Then try to beat your own record. Or you can time yourself to see how long it takes you to
write a page of your new book. And beat your record again!
Turn your goals into fun game. Just use a little imagination!

6. Write a success journal. Finally, a wonderful tip for achieving your goals is to keep a success journal. Unfortunately very few of us recognize the benefit of having a success journal as it relate to achieving our goals. It takes only a few minutes a day to write down your achievements and the tasks you’ve accomplished. But these few minutes a day have the power to transform all your life. Here are three things have a success journal will do for you.
-Success journal motivates you. Writing down your achievements helps you feel the progress. You will see how by small steps you’re moving closer and closer to your
goals, and this will motivate you to want keep working your goals.
-Success journal keeps you focus. The very fact that you know you will have to write down your achievement at the end of the day helps focus your attention on achieving something for the day.
- Success journal simplifies your life. Things become much simpler when they are written down. A journal makes you more organized and focused.

Success!

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