Setting Goals

The most important thing you must do before setting any goal is to get crystal clear as to what it is you want. Whether that is to lose some weight, begin eating a healthy diet, or creating a compelling CV to get a new job; you must decide firstwhat it is that you want. As Stephen Covey says: 'begin with the end in mind.' Once you have decided what it is that you want, then you cen begin to create a plan. Ideally your plan will be broken down into a series of small easily achievable steps that, when combined together will be the pathway to the end or your goal. Here's a trick that might make achieving your goal just that little bit easier: Don't worry about finishing your plan - sometimes that seems to be just too much to do; too many steps ans therefore overwhelming. Break it down into say weeks, each week has seven days, and so set up some action steps for one day only. Early on, it may be sufficient to repeat each day's set of tasks. By setting up your day into a series of small steps, you will notice that you can easily tick them off as being completed. For the next day you repeat the previous day's list of steps. At the end of the week,you realise that you have actually succeeded in doing everything you planned to do! Two things will have happened: 1. You have experienced success. 2. You have begun to believe you can do it. A third bonus is that you have begun to build a habit of reaching your goals. There are plenty of books on goal setting many of which can be quite sophisticated, however what is outlined here is all you need to get started.