A Goal Setting Plan for Your Success

A goal is a dream written down! This goal setting plan helps you to take focused steps towards your dream.

• achieve financial independence?
• spend more time with your family?
• achieve greater health and fitness?
• become more productive at work?

Whatever your goal, did you know that 80% of goal setting studies in sport and business show improvement in less than 6 weeks?

Enroll in our free goal setting course which I use with elite athletes, business professionals, and students to focus and organize their effort and time around what is important in their life.

A goal setting plan is a roadmap to your success. There are also a number of benefits to using goal setting software, partly because software gets you to plan your work and then work your plan - keeping you on the road to success. If you are unsure whether this is for you, then why not try a free goal setting trial.

Make today's vision into tomorrow's reality

Setting meaningful goals to you is essential to a successful goal setting plan. Your personal goals are based on your vision of where you want to go and what you want to achieve. What is your personal vision?

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

By creating a vision you develop a powerful force that provides you with direction and motivation. This is the foundation of your goal setting plan.

By creating a vision of what you want to achieve in the different areas of your life, it is now possible to construct long-term goals.

Achieve balance in your goal setting

How often have we heard the story of the busy executive who has achieved success in their working life, only to have missed seeing their children grow up, or not pursued something that interested them because they were too focused on their goal of work.

To achieve balance in your goal setting plan, set goals in different areas of your life.

For example you may have,

• Family goals. Do you want to spend more quality time with your family? What sort of parent or partner do you want to be?
• Education goals.Do you want to learn something new, or become and expert in a particular area? What new skills do you want to acquire?
• Physical goals.Are you wanting to lose weight or become fitter? Perhaps you want to improve your game or remain motivated to keep training. Do you want to remain healthy as you get older? What steps do you need to take?
• Mindset and behavior goals.Do you want to maintain a positive mindset? Are there behaviors that you want to improve upon? Do you want to have more pleasure and happiness in your life?
• Financial goals. What sort of money do you want to earn? Do you want to achieve financial freedom? If so, how?
• Career goals. Where do you want to be in your career? What type of job do you want to work in?

A common difficulty in goal setting is that people set too many goals. Do you have too many goals in the different areas of your life?

While you may be eager and motivated to achieve all these goals, prioritize your goals with this goal setting activity. Prioritizing your goals will focus your attention and effort on the most important goal to you.

Our goals are SMARTer

You’ve probably heard about SMART goals, well our goals are SMARTer which will ensure your goal setting success. When I examine the goals that some athletes, students and work professionals set, a common mistake they make is that the do not set SMARTer goals.

Your SMARTer long term goals are made up of many smaller details. Research suggests that to maximize goal setting success, you need a combination of short and long-term goals.

If you can picture a ladder with the top step being the achievement of your long term goal.

Each step on the ladder can be thought of as one of your short-term goals. As you progress up the ladder, you complete each short-term goal which moves you closer to your ultimate success.

It can be easy to lose sight of your long term goal, so it is really important to set short-term goals that keep you focused on your lifetime plan.

Use this free goal setting template to create your short-term goals.

Having SMARTer short term goals keeps you focused and motivated.

Plan your work and work your plan

By creating a To Do List you now start to build your Action Plan items into your daily schedule. A To Do List is a tried and tested way of becoming more efficient and getting on top of what you need to do.

Dealing with changing priorities and common difficulties

With the passage of time, your priorities and circumstances may change. Also, you may find that there are obstacles and difficulties to achieving your goals. Research on athletes and top business people shows that by evaluating and reviewing their goals regularly increases their chances of goal setting success.

By following a goal setting process you are more likely to achieve success.

One of the benefits of reviewing your goals regularly is that you can avoid common goal setting difficulties.

The power of the subconscious can also influence goal setting success. Click here for more information on the influence of the subconscious on goal setting.

Often inspirational quotes can aptly describe your values and beliefs. Use these inspirational goal setting quotes to provide clarity and harness your motivation.