How To Achieve All Your Goals In 7 Steps
In this short blog post today, I’m going to tell you how to achieve all your fitness goals this year, so you can make it your best year ever! It’s the beginning of the new year as I write this post, so it’s a perfect time to plan the year and get started making it [...]
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January 3rd, 2009 at 7:36 am
What are the steps which any one can do to achieve his/her a long-term goal?
How to achieve your long-term goal? I need simple steps to achieve a great goal in my life. I read many of broad views representing a big steps about how to do this but what I need is to know the small steps which I can do gradually to achieve my great goal in life. Could you please, help me in this?
January 3rd, 2009 at 12:38 pm
You can always achieve a goal even if you are far away. Just take the first step and then the second one… you'll soon reach the top.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 12:40 pm
I obviously don't no, or else I wouldn't be stuck in this rut! :O
~Cindy! :"(
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January 3rd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Haven,t u read about robert bruce & the spider in your child-hood about how the spider finally succeed
faillures in life r those who does not realises
how close thet were to success when they gave it up
and success means going from faillures without loosing ur enthusiasm
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January 3rd, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Get a big calander and notebook ready to help you work this out.
1)Decide when you want to thave achieved this goal by. Then work out how much work you'll have to put in every day to get there.
Don't just prepare the boring important stuff. This goal is something yuo want so make sure your enjoyment isn't drained by too much hard work towards it. Eg working to go to uni isn't just about revision, get some posters and stuff to decorate your new home with. It's not premature cos you KNOW you're doing the work, so it's as good as yours.
2)Make not of any important landmarks along the way and make sure you're prepared for them in time. Eg 'I want to be a doctor' so make sure you're ready to apply on time, prepared for interviews, etc. If unsure what you need, look NOW.
3)You'll either have continuous hard work eg weight loss, or something that needs to be done in stages eg have application by this time, prepare for interview by this time etc. using this info, break it down into work that needs to be done each week.
4)Each week, look ahead and plan when you're going to fit it in. Then try your best to stick to it, but it's flexible as long as you get it done by the end of the week. it's just easier on you if you space it out.
5)Set up a reward system so that if you complete your goals for that week, treat yourself to new clothes or whatever. Also feels good if you want to put a big old tick across it on your calendar. This will also let you see how much work you've done so far and you'll feel proud of yourself
6) If determination flags, keep a reminder of why you're putting all this effort in somewhere where you can easily see it. Eg saving up to move somewhere lovely, put a picture of that place somewhere prominent.
7) Have a friend or family member who knows what you're doing. Just knowing that you have to check in with somebody frequently will spur you on as nobody wants to say they failed.
Hope this helps.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 12:46 pm
Recently I devised a program to help some friends and colleagues reach their goals. I'll give you a summary, and also integrate some of the strategies I learned from a trusted mentor.
The three elements of achieving goals are:
Desire - the force which drives us to want to set goals in the first place.
Motivation - the stimulus that kicks off our journey towards a goal.
Discipline - the pattern of behaviour we put into place to get us to our goal.
If you want something enough, you have the desire. But how to work out accurately how strong your desire is?
Start here…plan how far ahead you want to set your goals. For the purposes of this exercise, we'll make one goal, and we'll say…it's a five year plan. Sit with a pen and paper and imagine it succeeding. Now, break it down…into years. What do you have to do in that first year to move towards it…second year…and so on. Once you have detailed what you have to do in Year One, you break that first year down into 12 months and outline your steps in the same manner, then bring it back to a 4-5 weeks in a month and judge for yourself what actions need to be taken on a weekly basis, then seven days and daily basis. If you do this honestly, you should have a list of about 5 things you can do every day to get you to your weekly goal, and on back up to 5 years.
So you have proved a level of desire by even writing out your path in such detail.
A white board is a good tool for writing down your daily objectives…you can look at it every morning and remind yourself of what needs to be done, you can also check off success or amend it easily, and appraise your success every day.
Say you've set five daily tasks for the weekly goal and one day you don't make achieve one. Mark it down for the next day. If you don't do it then, mark it down for the next. If you have not done it by the end of the week when you are going back over your goals…scrap it. Why? Well, either it doesn't really fit the plan you have for yourself…or more importantly, your decision not to complete the set task over a whole week suggests it's not an important enough goal to warrant completion.
If you work your goal-setting out in this kind of timeline you'll soon realise (by doing) how to refine what it is you NEED to do (casting some of your original ideas away) and you'll become emboldened by your success.
In terms of sticking to your plan, desire's not enough. You need to feed it by activating the spur of motivation and probably the hardest, the pain of discipline. But as Lance Armstrong said "Pain is temporary, quitting lasts forever."
Give yourself positive reinforcement using whatever inspires you to succeed. Be persistent. Let your talents do the work.
There's so much more to this, but I hope it helps somewhat.
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January 3rd, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Give yourself plenty of options and
alternatives.
And just work steadfastly towards it ,
always make it your passion!
The little steps are just breaking it down
into a daily/weekly/whatever plan instead
of always thinking the final goal-
enjoy the journey!!
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