A New You With Goal Setting

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Have you ever seen Joe Versus the Volcano? I watched it the other night and it made me think. “Why do we have to get shaken out of our stupor with a near death event or a tragic event to decide to live our lives the way we want?”

Why do you want to go through out life living it with less vitality, fun, ambition and adventure than you are capable of? I don’t know, but we all do it to some degree. We all have an area of our lives that we spend time doing or being a part of when we would rather be, do or have something else.

Then one day we get an inkling that we’re not happy and that maybe we would like to change something. So we set a goal and get fired up, try the change for a bit and get sucked back into a life of mediocrity. All the while beating ourselves up for failing. At the same time reinforcing our ideas that we never were meant to succeed. Must be the genetics. Can’t do it without the support of my spouse, boss, children, or family.

The real reason we never accomplish our goals and dreams is because we give up. If we didn’t give up, we would eventually find a means to achieving our dreams. One step after another, down the path, discovering new things along the way and getting wiser as we go.

Piece by piece, one step at a time on the journey, the clues to solving our life situations present themselves. But those that turn around at the first obstacle of CHOICE, never even get on the path of success.

Once you DECIDE that you will achieve your goals, dreams, ambitions and aspirations to be, do, have more, it’s only a matter of finding out what you need to know to make it all work.

In one study I looked at of 700 people, only 14% said that they achieved most of the goals they had set out at the beginning of the year. Of that 14% only 1% said they accomplished everything they set out to do. The other 86% said they accomplished some to none of what they set out to do. I say this only because; I think it’s important to note that most of us don’t do what we set out to. The other thing to note is that there is 14% of the population that is doing something that most of us are not. And we need to learn it.

Here is another interesting note. 42% of us write down the same darn goals every year. We obviously know what we want, because we keep wanting it year after year, so lets learn how to get it.

First things first though, why is goal setting so important?

By Setting Goals You Can:
· Achieve more in your lifetime
· Improve your overall performances in life
· Increase your motivation to achieve the most out of life
· Increase your pride and satisfaction in your achievements
· Improve your self-confidence
· Plan to eliminate attitudes that hold you back and cause unhappiness

People who use goal setting effectively:
· Suffer less from stress and anxiety
· Concentrate and focus better
· Show more self-confidence
· Perform better in all areas of life
· Are happier and more satisfied with life

By setting goals, and measuring their achievement, you are able to see what you have done and what you are capable of. Sometimes you can shock yourself, trust me.

The process of achieving goals and seeing their results right in front of you gives you the confidence and a belief in yourself that you need to be able to achieve higher and more difficult goals in ANY area of life.

Providing that you simply take some time to yourself to carry it through with a pad of paper or your laptop, goal setting is also relatively easy. Which I’ll get to in the next article in this section…

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