Goals are outcomes, changes or desired end results that can be expected from doing certain tasks and activities.
Most people have goals. It’s entirely natural for someone to want to achieve something he or she likes. For example, I would like to be a general manager or a business owner someday. A friend of mine likes to be a game-developer someday. So how do you go about your goals? What should you do?
Define.
If you don’t know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
~ Dr. Laurence J. Peter
Know what you want. Its very clear that a person who doesn’t know what he or she wants would not achieve anything he or she wants. If you want to achieve something, you need to be clear on what you want. Write on one small paper what you want. For example if I would like to be promoted to being a general manager I would write, “I want to be promoted to the general manager position”. It’s as simple as that.
Visualize.
Watch your thoughts, for they become words.
Watch your words, for they become actions.
Watch your actions, for they become habits.
Watch your habits, for they become character.
Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.~ Frank Outlaw
Visualization is the next key to achieving your goal. Visualizing yourself succeeding at achieving your goal helps you build confidence and vice versa. Allow yourself to see only one image which is achieving your goal. Believe you can do it. Confidence and belief makes us perform at our best and thus resulting in goal achievement.
Become
Your future is created by what you do today
~ Rich Dad
In Retire Young, Retire Rich, Robert continues with, “What you are doing today is your future”. Robert Kiyosaki is a famous financial educator. He and his wife wanted to build businesses in the future. So, even though they had no money, everyday they practiced building businesses and they eventually became owners of multiple companies.
In our example, I defined my objective or goal, “I would like to be a general manager”. I visualized it. Now, I would act and talk like a general manager. I will practice being a general manager by doing what a general manager does and eventually I will become one.
Don’t instantly become. Remember that to become needs a change of habits, thoughts and actions. Make gradual progressions on changes you need to do in order to become.
I would like to hear what you can say about my method of goal achievement.
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