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A Goal Setting Plan for Your Success

A goal setting plan creates a bridge between today's dream and tomorrow's reality. Having a goal setting strategy that uses goal setting templates for setting smart goals puts you well ahead.

Whether you want to:

  • become a millionaire
  • learn new skills or get a better job
  • become healthier or lose weight
  • become more effective at work

....you maximize your chances of success by having a goal setting plan.

Millions of people make goals every year with the best of intentions....only to make the same goals the following year.

This personal strategic plan video shows you how to achieve more in the next year than in the past 10 years combined.

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If you want to achieve goals, then having a goal setting plan is a skill that you can master - making you one of the most effective people in your field.

Planning allows you to turn your goal into systematic steps of action from beginning to end - with clear targets for each step.

A goal setting plan is your blueprint for success

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Goal setting provides direction and purpose - the very foundation upon which to build success

Let's suppose that you want to build your dream home.

Wouldn't you draw up plans and organize the materials that you needed before you started to build your dream home?

It goes without saying that the foundations and walls are in place before the roof goes on.

Once the roof is on, you then start to work on the interior and doing the electrics.

You plan your dream home so that your house ends up as a reality of your vision.

Do you apply the same ideas of goals and planning to your own life?

A plan helps you to construct your priorities and design the life that you want to have!

Whenever you need to achieve a goal, a goal setting strategy identifies what needs to be done, the resources you require, and tracks your progress towards your goal.

Develop a Goal Setting Strategy

Develop a goal setting strategy for:

Career goal setting

Family goal setting

Fitness goal setting

Setting financial goals

Setting personal goals

In short, a goal setting strategy:

  • identifies the tasks you need to do to achieve your goal
  • provides a clear time-line of each of your tasks so that you can track progress
  • gives you a clear picture of the resources that you need to achieve your goal.

A goal setting plan maximizes your chance of goal setting success!

By having systematic steps for setting and achieving goals you learn one of the most important skills of success.

In setting out a plan you need some paper and a pen.

Throughout this goal setting plan I provide a number of goal setting forms that you can use to develop your plan.

5 Steps to your goal setting plan

A goal setting plan gives you clear steps for setting and achieving goals. The 5 steps to your plan include:

  1. Developing a clear vision
  2. Writing goals: Download a goal setting plan template
  3. Practicing zero-based thinking
  4. Identifying the actions that support your goal
  5. Reviewing your goal progress


1. Develop a clear vision

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements

Napoleon Hill

In developing your goal setting plan make a list of the areas of your life that you would like to change.

Some of the typical areas include personal relationships, finance, career and community.

Download a goal setting worksheet that provides you with the common life areas.

On your goal setting worksheet, rate these different areas in terms of importance for you.

What life area is most important to you?

If you could improve one life area, what would it be?

Ask yourself what type of person would you like to be in each of the life areas.

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Practice 'No Limit' Thinking

Imagine a vision of yourself with no limits. How would you want each of your life areas to look?

Wave a magic wand over your family life, your career or finances - allow yourself to practice 'no limit' thinking.

'No limit' thinking allows your true goals to emerge.

These goal setting activities are a right-brain activity that helps you to develop a clear personal vision - the foundation for setting and achieving goals.



2. Writing goals - download a goal setting plan

Now that you have a clear idea of the values and the life areas that are most important to you, it is time to develop your goal setting plan.

Download your goal setting plan and identify one value/intention and write a goal that reflects this value/intention.

By planning on paper and writing down your goals, you are more likely to achieve them.

Planning Software

Goal setting software is an excellent way to develop your goal setting plan.

The right software systematically applies many of the right goal setting strategies, such as breaking long-term goals into short-term ones that are measurable and time-bound.

But ultimately you need to be disciplined to achieve goals.

The right goal setting software, with discipline and desire, can save time and supercharge your goal setting.



3. Practice zero-based thinking

You have set a goal of where you want to go. The next step is to identify where you are now.

Whether you are setting career goals, finance goals, fitness goals, or personal goals, it is important to identify where you are now.

Suppose that you wanted to lose weight.Firstly you need to identify your current weight.

If you want to be a millionaire you must identify your current financial worth.

Taking a realistic view your current weight or net worth allows you to identify the knowledge, obstacles, and constraints that stand between where you are now and the goal that you want to achieve.

I worked with an Olympic swimmer who identified what time was required to win his event at the next Olympics.

He then identified what times he was doing now and worked out how much he would need to improve each day to achieve this time.

He then identified what actions would support his goal to win his event at the Olympics.

4. Identify the actions that support your goal

On your goal setting plan worksheet make a list of all the actions that support your goal.

Ask yourself what strategies you can put into place to achieve each action.

What are the target dates for each action?

goal setting templates

Here, you are developing short-term goals with clear target dates for achievement - the basis of setting SMART goals.

Imagine a staircase taking you to the next floor. Your long-term goal is the top of the stairs - with each step being a short-term goal.

By writing down your short-term goals and creating a deadline you dramatically increase your chances of goal setting success.

Download these goal setting templates to further break down your goals.

5. Review your goal progress

One of the biggest mistakes in goal setting is to 'set and forget' your goals.

Many people, with the best of intentions, do it each year, only to make the same goals the following new year.

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Common Goal Setting Errors

Goal setting is one of the most powerful theories of motivation, yet it is a skill.

Like any skill, whether playing tennis or learning to drive, setting and achieving goals gets better with practice.

Avoid some common errors of goal setting with these goal setting tips.


Common errors in goal setting make it difficult to achieve goals.

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