By: Steven Gillman

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Does personal goal setting work? Many people want things, situations or accomplishments, call these goals, and then are disappointed when they don’t get them. Call desires goals if you want, but just naming your desires sure isn’t effective goal setting. Good goals have some or all of the following:

1. They are specific. “I want to be healthy” is too general. “I want to lose weight and walk three times a week,” is better.

2. They are measurable. How many pounds do you want to lose? How much money do you want to make? How will you know if your relationship is better?

3. They are in writing. There is power in writing down your goals. It makes them more real, and this influences your subconscious mind, especially if you review the goals regularly.

4. They are realistic. Sorry, but even if it is possible that you could become an astronaut, if you’re already 55, you better try for becoming a pilot for now. Unrealistic goals set you up for failure.

5. They have deadlines. You’ll have a new job by when? Setting dates really helps your progress.

6. They become plans. Making a goal into specific steps makes it much more likely. It isn’t overwhelming to take one step at a time.

7. They are motivated. Having the goal for the right reasons is a good start. You should also learn how to re-motivate yourself, and reward yourself when you make progress.

8. They consider personal factors. Can you really get what you want if you feel like you don’t deserve it? Maybe, but good goal setting takes into account personal changes that are necessary or useful.

9. They are followed by action. One of the keys to motivation and to getting where you want to be is to start with any movement towards the goal. Action begets action. Start slow if you must, but start.

10. They are not written in stone. Goals naturally evolve. Why would you become a doctor once you learned that you liked doing lab work better?

The last one is a tough one. An excuse and a change of course are not the same thing, but to know the difference means you need a certain level of self-awareness. Develop that, apply the keys to personal goal setting above, and you’ll get to where you want to be.

Posted by Janet Schlarbaum

By: Koz Huseyin
Setting goals is a great way to achieving them! We find only a few percentage of people ever goal set. I am going to make a bold statement that everyone sets goals. However, there are many reasons why goal setting just is not working for you.

Our desires are a key to a successful outcome with our goals. However, the desires that we have can be summarized into a couple of types. These different types of desire can make or break your goal setting efforts.

Often we will chase symbols. We see that nice car, that nice house and we just want it. Perhaps it is to be better than the Jones or you just feel you got to achieve that goal you set yourself.

Achieving any goal is down to the right kind of desire. With the right kind of desire, the seeds come with the fertilizer, and the plant (your set goal) can grow. But, it needs the water. Without water the goal that you have set will never appear.

Conscious desire is that seeking symbols. It is as a child wanting something so bad, and when you finally received it, you wanted something else! This can be thought of as water that is polluted. Often these kinds of desires make goal achievement not possible. The universe, higher power, God, etc always knows your deepest needs and wants, and will only manifest those things which are necessary for your growth.

So, what is the best kind of desire to have, whether you want to achieve financial success, business success, or even a happy life? The desires which come from deep within, those kinds of goals we place on instinct. We just don’t know why we are having that desire. Kind of like the desire is when you have fallen in love with someone. You just have that feeling.

These subconscious desires are great desires to have. When you find them realize that you have gold in your hands. You have a desire which comes from a higher power, God, angels or whatever you want to label that higher power. These kind of desires always come with the necessary resources for there attainment.

When you goal set, these kind of desires can tell you whether you will achieve them or not. Now I am not saying that no conscious desire manifests, they do manifest. Though a simple look at every lottery winner and you will find that even though they attained the conscious desire, it soon vanished as fast as it came in. Often leaving the people one step behind.

You can start living your dreams when you understand the process of goal setting in the right way. Anything you truly desire can come to fruition. All it requires is taking action, as soon as you feel the impulse of that subconscious desire.

Posted by Janet Schlarbaum

No matter who you are and where you stay today, if you think deeply, there must be something that you want to achieve in your life right now. Maybe you want to earn more money and quit your boring day job. Maybe you want to lose weight and have slim body. Or maybe you want to have a good relationship with your love one and live a healthy life. These are what I called dreams. And with your dreams written down, they will become goals. The interesting thing is, I’m going to show you exactly how you can achieve your goals as long as you follow through the strategies that I’m going to lie down to you.

The problem with most people is that they do not know what they want in their life. If you do not know what you want to achieve, how can I help you to achieve it? Besides that, even if people know what they want and they do write down their goals, but they are still not achieving them. Why? This is because many people thought that goal setting is just a simple process of writing their goals down and things will come to them automatically. This is not the right way. Therefore, follow through all the strategies below and you will learn how to set empowering goals that keep you going all the time.

1. Write down your goals on a piece of paper, make commitment by signing on that paper to show that you will achieve them, and then paste that paper on somewhere you can see it often. You must do this if you are serious in achieving what you want in your life. You have to constantly remind yourself about your goals so that they will sink into your subconscious mind.

2. Every night before you go to sleep, take 10 minutes to visualize about the feeling of achieving your goals. For instance, if your goal is to drive a luxury car, then imagine that you have bought it and how and where you are going to drive your dream car to. Imagine the smell of your dream car, feel the steering as your turn and feel the soft cushion that you sit on. The key here is to make your visualization as tangible as possible.

3. Take at least 3 action steps toward your goals everyday without stopping. Simply writing down your goals will not bring on the results you want. It is the action that you take that will bring you what you want. Therefore, take at least 3 action steps everyday to make sure that you are moving closer toward your goals each and everyday. Persistency and consistency are very important here.