[MIDWEEK DRIVE] AWESOME STEPS TO SET AND ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS – EVERY TIME!

Achieving complex and difficult goals requires focus, long-term diligence and effort. Success in any field requires forgoing excuses and justifications for poor performance or lack of adequate planning; in short, success requires emotional maturity. The measure of belief that people have in their ability to achieve a personal goal also affect that achievement.

It’s been said that everyone has goals, whether we know it or not. We have goals to keep our current job, or to get a different one. We have goals to save for the future, or to travel, take a vacation, or purchase the things we need and want to make our lives more enjoyable. Achieving set goals is neither as simple as the English alphabets nor difficult as rocket science. Inability to achieve goals is due to individual shortcomings than environmental influence.

What is a goal?

A goal can be simplified as the object of person’s ambition or effort, an aim or desired result. A goal can also be termed as a desired result that a person envisions, plans and commits to achieve a personal desired end-point. Bottom-line, a goal is a cognitive vision or a carefully hatched plan set out to accomplish a much craved result.

A goal is something we want so much that we make concerted efforts to reach it. However, most people mistake want for goal whereas, they are completely different but closely related entities. A want is more like a fantasy while a goal is a pre-conceived reality. For example, a person might nicer car than he current affords to own, but it’s not really one of his goals. It only becomes his goal the moment he tags it with a degree of priority and work towards turning it to reality.

An important distinction, however, is that to achieve your goals, you must be very intentional and focused and also know that the wording, structure, timing and format of your goal can make it’s achievement much easier – or far more difficult. You must understand the basic skills for setting and reaching goals, every time! You must know how to design goals that create success.

HERE ARE THE SEVEN (7) MOST IMPORTANT STEPS TO SET AND ACHIEVE YOUR GOALS: READ

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Author: LAMBE OLANREWAJU
Column: Midweek Drive

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