HOW DO I  SET GOALS

This article was written by Bibi Bunmi Apampa an Empowerment Coach  at  www.EmpowermentCentre.net

 

Goal Setting is a process for planning what you want to achieve. When you set yourself goals, you are making plans and taking control of what you want to accomplish throughout your life.

By setting goals, you can:
- See what you can achieve
- Gain confidence to achieve even more
- Measure your successes
- Take pride in what you’ve achieved

The setting of Specific Goals is one good way of fulfilling the purpose God has for your life. Goal setting takes TIME, DISCIPLINE, COURAGE and PATIENCE.

 

Long-term goals and short-term goals.
Long-term goals are also known as Final Goals and short-term goals may also be known as Journey Goals. Long-term or Final goals will provide you with inspiration whilst the short-term or Journey goals will keep you motivated on the way to your Final goal.

For example, You might have a long-term goal to start your own internet business within a year, but there will be many short-term goals that you will have to accomplish to achieve the long-term goal.

Long-term goal:
- Start internet business

Short-term goals:
 

1.      Find a hungry niche market

2.      Develop a product that is guaranteed to sell

3.      Write the sales copy to promote it

4.      Design the website to sell it

5.      Market through proven channels

Within these short term goals there may be other smaller goals that you have to complete. To start your own internet business, you might need to research the different training and coaching programmes around, or if you are taking the do it yourself route, You might need to buy internet marketing training books. One of the tasks to achieve the short-term goal might be to read two chapters of the book daily.

A long-term goal can seem very difficult to achieve but if it is broken down into smaller bite size short-term goals, it makes the long-term goal seem much more obtainable.

When setting your goal, make sure that it is: SMART
Specific - You need to have a clear definition or target of what you want to achieve
Measurable - You must be able to quantify your goal so you know when you have reached

Attainable - The goal must be attainable and not outlandish
Realistic - Your goal should be just out of your immediate reach.Goals should not be too easy for you to achieve or too hard.

Time bound - You need to put a time frame on all your goals.

 

FIVE IMPORTANT STEPS

1.      YOU MUST DECIDE FOR YOURSELF WHAT YOU REALLY WANT OUT OF LIFE Nobody else can decide for you, if you don’t care what happens to your life no one will.

 

2.      GET ALONE IN A REFLECTIVE/THINKING MOOD. This enables you to understand your plan and what you desire. This is to help you get your goals ‘in agreement’ with your values. This helps you to avoid setting the WRONG goals.

 

3.      WRITE DOWN ON A SHEET OF PAPER EVERY SINGLE DREAM, GOAL AND DESIRE THAT IS PRESENTLY IMPORTANT TO YOU.  Write down every thing you have ever wanted to DO, BECOME OR POSSESS.  It maybe spiritual. Physical, mental, financial or have to do with family, career or business. It is important that you write it down don’t leave it in the memory. The bible says write the vision and make it plain upon tablets that he may run that readeth it for the vision is yet for an appointed time though it tarries wait for it for it will surely come.

 

4.      CHOOSE THE TOP THREE GOALS OUT OF THE LONG LIST. Now write down at least FIVE actions that you can do NOW toward accomplishing that BIG priority Goal. Remember a big success is simply several successes linked together. A chinese proverb says the journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step.

 

5.     LEARN HOW TO BE A CHANNEL OF BLESSING.  This is in line with the law of "KARMA" sowing and reaping whatever you sow that is what you will reap, What you make happen for others God will make happen for you.

 

This article was written by Bibi Bunmi Apampa an Empowerment Coach  at  www.EmpowermentCentre.net