Goal Setting Success

Most people set far more goals than they actually get. This can be discouraging and cause you to give up on goal setting. However if you learn to set your goals correctly then you will actually get them. Here's a simple five point system to help you do exactly that.

#1. Know The Benefit That You Are Wanting To Achieve

The most common mistake that people make in goal setting is that they don't determine the benefit that they really want from the goal. Let's say for example you set a goal to earn $200,000 per year. That doesn't really mean anything to the subconscious mind. You have to tell the subconscious what that $200,000 per year is going to do for you. That is your real goal.

How do your want that money to improve your life? What would that new lifestyle be like on a day to day basis?

#2. Know Exactly What Will Give You That Benefit

Once you have worked out what you really want as a benefit then make that your goal and describe it as specifically as you can. If you have a goal in the form of a very specific benefit or set of benefits then your subconscious mind will absorb it and start working on it for you.

Notice that this may not be the actual goal that you used to start the process. In our example above we used a goal of earning $200,000 per year as a starting point for the goal setting process. Once you rephrase original goal as the specific lifestyle that you hope the money will provide you and used that lifestyle as the new goal then your subconscious mind will work to achieve that lifestyle, whether it can be funded with $200,000 a year or whether it needs $300,000 per year.

#3. Breakdown Your Goal Into Bite Size Chunks

It is important that you can fully believe, at the emotional level, that you can achieve that goal. If it is too big to totally believe in then your subconscious will reject it as being too far out of the normal for you.

The way around this is to break it down into a series of smaller goals that are believable.

#4. Take Goal Directed Action Everyday

Most of us have the habit of not always working no holds barred towards the goals we set. This gives the subconscious the message that we are not serious about that goal and it will take it off the list. The way to ensure that your subconscious in fully aware that you really want this goal is to take goal directed action each and every day without fail.

#5. Monitor your Results and Course Correct Where Needed

Not all your goal directed actions are going to produce the results that you want. It is important to monitor your results and decide which actions are taking you toward your goals and which are not. Then modify your actions as required to make them more effective.

Concluding Remarks

This five point system works really well as long as you follow it. Make a decision to put this system into action today on your current goals and watch the improvement that follows.