Goal Setting Tips

Goal Setting

Have you set your goals for 2010? We’ve heard about it all our lives, and there are literally thousands of quotes, books, and articles about setting goals; how the process contributes to your success, but, so few people actually set goals.

But it’s a fact: Serious Goal Setting will greatly contribute to your success; goal setters are huge winners. There is an often-quoted study done at Yale University that placed goal setters firmly in the successful category when compared to non-goal-setters. The 3% of the participants who had actually written down their goals with a plan, followed that plan and took consistent action were happier, more confident and better adjusted. They also earned more money over that 20-year period than the 97% of the other participants.

So why not be among the 3% who will set goals and live by them? You have everything to gain; and nothing to lose. This is perfect timing for the setting of your resolutions and goals for 2010 and beyond.

Because of space limitations, over the next seven days we’ll only be able to touch on a few of the basic Goal Setting tips in this extensive series. (Pay little attention to the numbering of these paragraphs – these have been selected from a total of 76 “tips.”) But if you’ll drop an email to richeyrich01@gmail.com, I’ll be happy to send you the full series (at no cost, of course.)

These basic Goal Setting Tips are organized in a sequence that will support you from thinking about your goals to actually achieving them. And remember; only about 3% of us will actually follow through with setting our goals for 2010 and beyond, so make a decision to be numbered among the few; it works! Here is the first of seven tips that I will share with you over the next seven days. Let’s get started, shall we?

Here we go:
Goal Setting Tip #1

1. Use a journal to keep track of your goals, journey where you may keep daily or weekly records of your progress including affirmations, successes, appreciations for your hard work, rewards, resistances, obstacles, etc. Use your goals journal to write goals initially and to rewrite them over time. Use it to break your goals into steps. Review your progress regularly and jot a few notes.
There are a number of paper and digital methods for keeping these records such as notebooks, planners or professional goal tracking software. Develop consistent habits of writing about your thoughts and goal progress. It will propel you forward at a faster pace. Use colored pens, stickers and pictures for emphasis.
See you tomorrow for tip #2.