Yesterday’s post discussed the importance of having a BIG, lifetime goal, today we’re going to show you how you can set your own personal life goals.

Have you ever thought about your main life goal before? If you are tired of not going anywhere in life, or having mediocre success then this is what is missing – how can you hit the target if you don’t even have one!?

Setting goals will help you to determine where you want to and where you don’t want to go in life. By knowing exactly what you want you can start to filter the distractions out and always come back to your core life goal.

Okay, so get yourself an empty pad of paper and think for a few minutes about all the things you really want to achieve in life and just start writing. Write down sentences, small things, words at first. You might write:

• To make $1m before I am 40
• To get into a top university
• To have a successful business
• To lose weight and maintain a healthy physique
• To climb Everest
• To travel around the world
• To raise my children and give them a headstart in life
• To learn to pilot a plane
• To raise money for my charity

No matter how scattered they are, or insignificant they may seem – write it all down, whatever comes into your head. You are creating the building blocks which will form your main life goal.

Your list should be much bigger than the above example. When you have an extensive list of your desires group them into categories, and try and sum them up into sentences. This will likely take you several rewrites until you get something that really touches you, that feels natural, that really inspires you.

For example, taking some of the above you might write:

I will show my gratitude and donate and support charity heavily. I will travel the world, experiencing different cultures, and ways of life. I will raise a close family, with strong morals, and give all my children my encouragement and support in all they do. Above all I will live a life of abundance, making $1m from my successful business before the age of 40, thanks to an excellent top level education, which I worked solidly and consistently to get through.

This is just an example, you should really put some time in and think about your unique lifetime goals. Have you met anyone with such solid goals? Having a goal statement like this will help to keep you focussed, and on track towards your goals – read it every day, print it out and put it on your wall, whatever you need to do so that it sticks in your mind and you know your goals inside out.

When you find yourself wasting time or doing any activities which won’t help you achieve your lifetime goals you can cut them out and do something more productive to work towards them.

Tomorrow we are going to take this subject even further and show you how to break down your goals to ensure you achieve them, see you then!

So many people are looking for that magic pill, that quick fix, the miracle cure, the instant business – it seems that whatever people want to achieve they would rather take the short cut, they would rather be told exactly how to get there, and what to do.

While there is definitely merit in looking to successful people in the area you want to develop in, there is no such thing as overnight success, in any field.

Yes someone has walked the path you want to go down, and they can tell you what to avoid and make your journey a little easier. But in truth, nothing really achieving is ever easy. If you have a big goal, if you really want to achieve success in a big way then you will have to endure failure after failure – you will only succeed by overcoming these failures and rising to success.

To quote the personal development author Og Mandino:

“Rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.”

Next time you find yourself browsing for the next instant fix, or shortcut to your goals, remember, if your goals are high enough there is no shortcut. If you are really on the path to success then there is no quick fix, and looking for them or trying them is only distracting you from actually putting the work in and getting closer to your goal.

This is a really quick and simple method you can use for motivation. It is a logical approach, and aims to rewire the way you feel about a difficult task.

Many people look at a difficult task and consider the bad elements of it, for example:
– Trying to lose weight, people will see the early morning gym sessions as a chore, and dread the low calorie diet they will have to consume.
– Setting up a business they will look at the risk involved, and the initial drop in pay from their regular job.

These types of thoughts are so common, but they are setting you up for failure.

The people who succeed take a VERY different viewpoint: They only consider the pleasure they will receive and not even think about possible negatives, so taking the above examples:
– They visualize the slim body at the end of their efforts, and how good they will feel about themselves.
– They think of the financial freedom, and their potential to make even more money in the long term.

You can see that although the above two people may want to achieve the same goal, the second person is much more likely to succeed, simply because of their beneficial frame of mind.

Next time you set a goal only think of the positives and focus on the outcome rather than the negatives or things that might be difficult.

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