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Goal Setting Worksheets – Benefits of Putting Goals on Paper
Posted by: | CommentsTime and time again you have heard me talk about the importance of goals setting. Well, in this article I need to stress that fact again, plus one more, the benefits of putting goals on paper. You need a road map or as I call it a Success Atlas. Goals are milestones along your Success Atlas and the benefits of putting goals on paper will be a clearer view of your road map to reach them. Putting your goals on paper enables you to walk you through the necessary steps for success.
I mean if you think about it you really set goals every single day of your life. You set the alarm at the same time setting a goal of getting up to get to work, school or even the gym on time. You review your customer’s needs setting a goal to meet their needs, make money and grow your business. You can take these same small scale principles and apply them to goal setting on a medium or even much larger scale.
We all have desires and dreams we want to attain. We sit day dreaming while strolling through the park, walking down the beach or down a sidewalk in the sitting. Envisioning all the great and wonderful things we would like to have in our lives. Money, love, happiness, a thriving business, healthy and happy children the list can be as long as our imagination. But the problem is that alone is not enough to keep us motivated and focused to move forward – especially if we meet with resistance to meeting the goals we have set.
After going through ANY mental goal setting exercise you need to commit your goals to paper, putting them in a journal or writing them down on a goal setting worksheet. Write down all your thoughts (good and bad) about your goals – allow the pen to flow and begin to create a road map, a blue print and a Success Atlas that will become clear and specific, that will provide you with the focus, motivation and direction that you need. Putting goals on paper, creating your Success Atlas will the next step you need to take, give you the focus and motivation to take it, then show the next and the next and so on, and so on.
Not sold yet? Well how about when someone is getting married and has one of those big beautiful weddings. Do you thing the goal just happened? Of course it didn’t. Couples will spend on average one hundred hours planning a wedding. They will put down all their plans (goals) on forms (goal worksheets). Everything from what color the bridesmaids are going to wear, to who is sitting next to whom at the reception. Because something as simple as Uncle Irritating sitting next to Grandma No-Patience can ruin a wedding just as fast as planning and outdoor wedding during the wrong time of year. All these steps need to be thought through, mapped out and committed to paper.
Here is another interesting fact I have come to learn. Many of those same people that spend that hundred hours doing all the goal setting for their wedding, getting all the benefits of putting goals on paper, spend ZERO time setting goals for their lives. I do not want that to be you!
Goal setting worksheets are great tools for putting your goals on paper. They can help you through every nuance of the goal setting process. They can help you plan better and even aid in seeing those little things that you might have missed without them.
Here are three great reasons for using Goal Setting Worksheets and put your goals on paper:
- Goal Setting Worksheets can help you see your future vista – many people call this the big picture. Imagine if you were sitting on a high vista overlooking your perfect life. How would is look to you? Where will you be? What will you be doing? Putting your goals on paper can help you start focusing on this future vista and steer you along life’s path and many decisions so you can arrive there.
- Goal Setting Worksheets can help you covert your vista into your why. If you do not have a important why for reaching your goal(s) then the odds are weighted heavily against you. It is not enough to own the beautiful home you need to know why you want it. Is it a sense of security? A place you can come to escape from the hectic pace of the outside world? Know your why and your why and your odds of achieving your goal shift into your favor.
- Goal Setting Worksheet will enable you to take your future visa (long term goal) along with your whys and break that big picture down into medium goals. Then you can break those medium goals down into short term goals. Then turn your short term goals into tasks and those tasks into steps. I have had many a person say they have a goal to ear six figure incomes. A very attainable goal, but so many think they can reach that goal in a year or even less. Depending on where they are THAT could be far less attainable. They need to take this long term goal and break it down into medium goals – say half way from where they are to that big goal. Then break it down in half again, then again. Until it is at a point where they can look at the task and say to themselves “I can do that.” Then they just need to set about doing it.
These are only three reasons why you could be going through your goal setting exercises and just a few of the benefits of putting your goals on paper. There are many more and actually I will put a few more together in my next post. So, for now, sit down write your goals out, look at your vista vision, figure out your whys and start breaking that vista vision down into mid-term goals. Break those mid-term goals into short term goals. Break those down into task and the task into steps. Now schedule your steps and take action. You will surprise yourself and everyone around at how fast you take off towards the dreams you desire and deserve.
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Think Successfully & Take Action
Tracy
You Only Need Two Goals in Life!
Posted by: | CommentsFocus on the Log (Goal)
Posted by: | CommentsSo many of can use some help with our focus. Our life’s and our minds are so busy with numerous little distractions that we lose our focus on the main objective or goal. Also, society and technology is not helping us keep our focus – I mean have you seen the commercial for the satellite cable service that will enable you to watch six to nine games at the SAME TIME. WOW, talk about spreading your focus around. Our world is becoming much like that television service – spreading your focus so thin that some of the ‘facts’ are evading your attention. Problem is, some of these facts can and often will make or break your success or at least how fast you can attain it. So as you can see, focus is an important ingredient to your recipe for success.
When I was in basic training for the US Army we frequently had to run the obstacle course or as we called it the “O” course. This was a trail running through the beautiful woods of South Carolina populated with various crawling, climbing, jumping and dodging obstacles. Your task was to run the “O” course in a set time frame or less. One of the obstacles was a ‘log walk.’ Simply put there would be telephone pole sized log lying on the ground and you would need to walk across the top. Simple right? Yes! But here is what I found interesting. As long as the log was on the ground or at least low to the ground – the runners focus was on the log and they traversed it easily. However, once you raised the log up 5 or more feet into the air – their focus went from walking across the log to the risk of falling. Guess what? Yep, you guessed allegra order prescription it – many of them fell, because they took their focus off the main goal (walking across the log) and instead focused on the risk (falling).
The point I want to make sure you walk away with today is Focus is very important! Most of us have a tendency to lose our focus in life, business or relationships because we take our eye of the main goal and focus on the all the negatives possibilities. Basically we stop focusing on our goal’s log and instead focus on the worries and fears of the fall.
When you focus on what you want and how you can attain it, it will start to come into your life! When you stay focused on what you want as it starts to come into your life, it will starting coming faster. When you focus on being a happy and motivated person, guess what? Yep, that’s right – you will become a happier and more motivated person!
Think Successfully & Take Action!
Tracy Brinkmann
One of Today’s TOP Motivated Coaches & Author of Success Atlas Programs
Expect to Succeed
Posted by: | CommentsOne thing in life is almost guaranteed, if you plan to succeed and prepare carefully then and only then can you expect to have success in your efforts. Your planning and preparation will allow you to reach deep inside and pull out all the successful winning qualities that you were born with. Once you recognize that you have these qualities you can begin to develop them, allowing the winner within you to emerge. Regardless of the goal cheap acomplia online set whether it is earning more money, saving for a new home, getting that promotion, losing weight, or furthering your education you CAN expect to successfully achieve the goal if you lay out your goal intelligently, then plan and prepare for it thoroughly. For example, when you plan and prepare to complete a project successfully, then and only then, you can justifiably expect to complete the project. Mind you, not each and every one of your expectations will come to pass, as you would like them too. But by having a positive attitude towards your goals combined with your planning and preparation you give yourself an infinitely better chance of successfully completing your goals as you have envisioned them.
Now just because you have planned thoroughly and prepared exhaustively does not mean that the path from where you are today to where you want to be in your tomorrows will be a smooth one. In all likelihood it will be bumpy, full of twists and riddled with quick perilous turns. Know that none of this has anything to do with you personally or how much you prepared. It has far more to do with the fact that no one else is as interested in your success as you are. There will be those along your path that either accidentally or through conscious and malicious undertakings will hinder your efforts to reach your goals. You can reduce the accidental hindrances by working closely and keeping in constant communication with those that you need assistance from. As for the malicious, remember there will always be those out there in competition with you that have little or no integrity. Keep your head held high, work through the problems with dignity and the expectation that you will succeed and you will come out on top in the end and with a level on honor unmatched by those that would take the low road.
Always keep your character and dignity held in the highest regard as you hit your roadblocks. Your attitude, character and commitment to your goals will be the deciding factor on whether you successfully prevail over them or not. When the roadblock presents itself, go back to the basics: Review your plan of action, modify it to go over, through or around the roadblock. If you are unable to conceive a method to overcome the obstacle then seek advice from a trusted source. And as always constantly fill your mind with good information through books, CDs, MP3s, seminars etc. If your mind is filled with positive, optimistic thoughts and ideas you will be far more likely to come up with the creative solution you are looking for.
For more information on maintaining a healthy attitude towards your life, yourself and your goals may I suggest reviewing the following post found in my blog – just click on the title below open the post in a new window:
Expect to succeed by
Thinking successfully & Taking Action!
Tracy
One of Today’s Top Motivated Coaches & Author of Success Atlas Programs
