PERSONAL GOALS: How To Set Personal Goals Effectively

Your Personal Goals

Stretch your goals,

and your goals will stretch you!

Define What You Want

Know what you want to achieve.

If you don’t know exactly what you want, how will you ever get there?

Goals are the milestones to your dreams and a key to self-motivation.

"Identify your personal aims. What specific objectives must you meet in the next week, month, quarter, year?" ~ Peter Drucker

Goals worth achieving are mission-oriented goals.

~ Vadim Kotelnikov

The reason people encounter difficulties in any endeavor is a lack of clarity and well-defined goals. Without clearly articulated goals, we tend to become strangely attached to carrying out trivial daily tasks – to the point where we eventually become their slaves.

"Without the vision of a goal, a man cannot manage his own life, much less the lives of others." ~ Genghis Khan

Determining exactly what you want is the crucial first step in almost any situation.

You can have everything you truly desire, but you cannot have absolutely everything you might happen to want.

SETTING PERSONAL GOALG: NLP Solutions - Hierarchy of Personal Goals

What Goals are Worth Achieving?

Behind every great success is a great reason.

Goals worth achieving are mission-oriented goals. Channeling your grand vision into a specific direction and action makes the difference between being an idle dreamer and being a person with a mission.

Define and Prioritize
Your Personal Vision, Mission and Values

The first step is to clarify your vision and values.

You ask yourself,

"What is my Life Vision?"

"What values and virtues do I most admire and wish to incorporate in to my life?"

The second step is to use those values to define your position with regard to your life and work. The values you choose, and the order of priority you place on your choices, will determine your approach to your life and work.

Your next step in personal strategic planning is to create your personal mission statement. This clear description of the person you intend to be will help you set specific goals.

Mission-driven Innovator

"We are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal." ~ Robert Brault

Visualize Your Goal

Take a few minutes to achieve your goals in your mind. Imagine a → life that is exactly as you want it. What would you do each day? With whom would you do it?

Nothing is too crazy or ambitious. A few seconds is all it takes to put you in a state of excitement and enthusiasm. If you can see your goal in your mind, you can make it a reality. Visualization is the first step to bringing a dream to life. If you can see yourself happy, successful, healthy and loving life, you can make it happen. The first step is to visualize it... More