FREE Goal Setting
The Secret of Success
Setting Your Goals
The first step in setting personal goals is to consider what you want to achieve in your lifetime. Establishing your ‘big picture’ will shape all other aspects of your life, and ensure you are setting the right short-term goals.
There are many ways of setting goals. To gain a broad, balanced view of your goals, take the time to complete the table on the following page. Imagine your life divided into four quadrants: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Decide what goals you’d like to achieve during your lifetime to ensure you feel fulfilled in that area of your life.
For example, physical goals can be health and fitness related, but also include financial or material goals.
Set your weight and fitness goal
Mental goals might include higher education, career advancement or knowledge accumulation. It might also involve changing your mindset, improving your attitude or adjusting your behaviour.
Emotional goals might relate to family relationships, your connection with your partner, the parent you want to be or simply how you want to feel as you tackle the ups and downs of life.
Spiritual goals might include your religious convictions, your connection with the earth, how
often you’d like to meditate or practice an activity which ensures you feel centred (like gardening, painting or bushwalking, for example). You might also like to include how you wish to make the world a better place through your existence.
The key is breaking down your life into manageable goals.
| Physical | Mental |
| Emotional | Spiritual |
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Once you have decided your goals, you need to assign priorities. Rank them in priority in the space below.
Rank your Goals:
What results am I currently getting in my life that I like?
What paradigms (examples, patterns or thought processes) are producing those results?
What results am I currently getting in my life that I don’t like?
What are the paradigms that are producing those results?
What paradigms would produce better results?
Life Purpose
If you are ever to discover your life purpose, it may well be through the pursuit of a goal that will have little to do with that life purpose. Consequently, it becomes incredibly important that you set and pursue a series of goals, as these goals give you the necessary motion to discover and fulfil your life purpose and in doing so become the person you deserve to be.
Ask yourself: “what would I really like to be and to do in my life?”
Goal setting is an important method of:
- Deciding what is important for you to achieve in your life;
- Separating what is important from what is irrelevant;
- Motivating yourself to achieve; and
- Building your self-confidence based on measured achievement of goals.
Purchase and start using a goal book. Take the time to identify your lifetime goals, then break these down into 5-year, 1-year and even 1-month goals, if necessary.
Be creative with your goal book. Don’t be afraid to ask for what you really want.
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Guidelines for Goal Setting
- Write them down. Committing your goals to paper creates a roadmap for success. You begin to program them into your subconscious mind, which in turn begins to work towards their achievement.
- Use your imagination and describe your goals as vividly as possible, as if they were already a reality. Describe them using your five senses and add heaps of emotion. Emotion adds tremendous power to your goals.
- Be specific. The clearer you are about what you want in life, the more readily it will manifest itself. Time and again, sociological research has demonstrated that specific, challenging goals result in better performance than vague goals, no goals, or people simply trying to “do their best.”
- Write your goals in the present tense, as if they have already come true. Say “I am” not “I am going to”.
- Be positive. Success comes when we focus on striving toward positive outcomes, rather than avoiding negative outcomes. People setting ‘avoidance goals’ (such as ‘I will stop smoking’) tend to be less happy, less satisfied with life, and more anxious than others. Positive goals put us in a positive state of mind, and are mentally associated with positive memories and experiences, whereas avoidance goals are typically associated with memories of failures and accidents.
- Be 100% committed to whatever you do, especially to your goals. As Napoleon famously said, “If you start to take Vienna – take Vienna.” Underachievement is often caused by lack of commitment and doubt about the worth of a goal. If you achieve your goals and decide that you want something else, then go for that!
- Choose goals that stretch your abilities and yet are within what you believe is possible. People who set challenging goals for themselves tend to accomplish more than those who set more modest goals. As Emerson said, “We aim above the mark to hit the mark.”
- Make sure your Magic Book is balanced. It is important to set long and short-term goals for all areas of your life in order to ensure that you maintain a sense of balance. Some areas include: self-image, career, health, personal growth, leisure, relationships and prosperity.
- Allow for better – expect the unexpected. Often the universe will supply you in unexpected ways. Always allow for something better than what you are expecting by concluding your goals with “this or something better is all I am willing to accept.”
- Remember a completion date – this promotes commitment.
- Reward yourself. Upon the achievement of your goal, the recognition of your success will strengthen your self-image and help you build a success program. This then contributes to the realisation of your other goals.
- With short-term goals, be realistic. Don’t set them too high, or you’ll end up feeling discouraged. It’s better to take a short, reachable step and then set a new goal, to create a feeling of confidence. Laddie Hutar once wrote that “success consists of a series of little daily victories,” and effective goals are ones that encourage steady progress, day after day, week after week. Building a sense of momentum is crucial.
- With long-term goals, be expansive and idealistic. Let your imagination open up and reach for the highest. This will inspire you. Aim for the moon – if you miss, you’ll still hit the stars!
- Put your main focus on the essence of the goal. For example, don’t aim to win the lottery if you really want the lifestyle associated with it. Target the essence of your desire, and don’t worry about the details – those may change.
- Be flexible. You will probably find that many of your goals change frequently, but there is an essence in the most important ones that remains the same and helps to guide you close to your highest purposes.
- Don’t be compulsive about your goals. Don’t try to make them happen. Hold them lightly, relax and let them happen at their own pace and in their own way. Turn them over to your highest self to create them, and let go.
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