Now to get 300 words on the subject! Goals are like a map. It gives you a guide to your destination. There as many ways to create goals as there are people. I have a way that I like and will share it with you. I know it has worked for me several times.
I have 6 month, 1 year and 5 year goals. Many more or longer range proved not to work as well. I know people who had daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly goals it seems to work for them, however not for me. I know that what I am going to outline here will work with daily, and weekly goals.
It is a universal way to set and KEEP goals. setting goals is the easy part follow through is the cause of failure to reach your goals. That is part of the reason that I only have 3 short range goals. more can cause overload, and a sense of “What a burden”, this is too much for me to get done.
So the first guideline is 3 short term goals, second guideline is write them down, find pictures of what it is you want no matter what it is you want or need, Look the pictures daily, do something each day towards your goals.
First step: set a time frame
Second step: write down what you want within that time frame as many as you can think of.
Third step: prioritize them, list them order if importance to you from 1 to 6, no more then 10 however.
Fourth step: re-prioritize them down to 3.
Fifth step: take each goal and write down the steps that are needed to reach that goal. This is the roadmap that is important.
Please be very specific with each step. I have found that the fewer steps there are the easier it is for me to reach my goal. I also discovered that the simpler the step the easier it was for me to motivate myself. I find that 6 steps are the best.
I worked on this for several weeks way back in 1994. It has worked every time I used it. I had a form I used. The bad news is the computer it was on crashed and died without a backup. Now I will have re-create it. Which at some point I will.
