Personal Goal Setting

Everyone sets goals for themselves, however, only very few manage to go all the way and actually achieve the goals they set for themselves. It is these achievements that make these people ‘winners’ and it is the lack of achievement that makes the rest of the lot ‘losers’. Life, after all, even though most people may not choose to admit it, is all about winning and losing. When you set a goal for yourself and actually do realize it, you become a winner. On the other hand, when you set a goal for yourself and fail to shift the paradigms from dreams to reality, you become the loser. However, losing does not mean that it is the end of the road for you. It only means that you have failed in your approach to meet your goals and dreams. It means that you will have to learn from your mistakes and make all the right moves to get the better of them. If you are looking to set a few personal goals, but are clueless on how to go about it, these invaluable quotes on goal setting will help you realize your objective.

How To Set Personal Goals

Get Specific
When you are setting personal goals, it is important to be specific. You cannot be vague when looking to set personal goals. This is because the more vague you are with your goals, the less focused you will be, and when you are less focused, achieving your goals are as good as impossibilities. For example, if you tell yourself, I want to lose weight; you really are not going to get far with that goal. However, if you tell yourself, I need to lose two pounds in two weeks, then yes; achieving the goal becomes that much easier. So you see how being specific helps you in the setting of your goals.

Stay Practical
Most people, who fail at achieving their goals, mostly fail because they set unrealistic goals for themselves. For example, if a very fat man sets a goal to look all young and athletic in a month’s time, he is probably going to fail. Why is he going to fail? Simply because when you are very fat, getting to look all young and athletic in a month’s time is going to be as good as impossible. To prevent such an avoidable predicament in your life, you can take all the right steps to ensure your goals stay realistic and extremely achievable.

Set Deadlines
If your job has deadlines, then why not your goals and your life in general? It’s a funny concept, but somehow, a man can only work and give anything his best shot when he is presented with deadlines. When you apply the concept of deadlines to the desire to set and achieve goals, pulling off the same becomes that much easier. For example, if you sit yourself down and tell yourself that you are going to learn to master the basic techniques of the guitar in three months, you will find it that much easier to do so. When you set deadlines and serious ones at that, you will find yourself driven to achieve what you want to. However, make it a point not to set meaningless deadlines and make life unnecessarily difficult for yourself.

Write Your Way To The Top
This does not mean you have to aspire to become the best writer in the world, when you hardly care about writing and writers. It, instead, means writing your goals on a piece of paper. Here, it’s best to maintain a dairy. You can write down your goal and follow this up by writing down details on the steps you actually take to achieve your goals. You may not realize how writing down details on your goals can help, but you can take it for granted that writing down of the same will help you achieve them.