Setting Proper Goals

Setting goals, like anything else, requires careful consideration. It is important to have your goal set ready so you can see what you have accomplished and what you need to accomplish throughout the day and your life. The technique of goal setting is not a difficult task to master, and once you are setting your goals and fulfilling them, then you’re able to see progress being made.

There are two schools of thought regarding goal setting. One is to set small, attainable goals and the other is to set huge, lofty goals that you can’t possibly reach. I consider the best goal set to be a mixture of small, attainable goals and huge goals, but not so huge that you can’t possibly reach them.

Taking your goals and making small, short term ones that you can accomplish easily will do a lot for your self esteem. Think about things you want to have happen right now, such as completing a project on time for a client, or to add a small percentage to your client base, or write an additional five pages for that book of yours. Whatever it is you think you can squeeze in, write it down and have it as a goal.

Then, think about your long term goals. These can be where you want to see yourself in 5 year intervals. Make each one bigger than the other, and then see what you can do to work yourself toward that goal.

Most people feel that if they do not reach a goal, then they have to be hard on themselves. This simply isn’t the case. Just because you’ve made a goal and you haven’t fulfilled it, it doesn’t mean you’ve failed. The end result is you had some kind of goal that you were working towards in order to improve your life, and this is the most important thing you have to remember.

If you’re having problems attaining goals then you should look at the structure of your goal set. Are they impossible, or just too encompassing? If you try to include too much or even goals that you know can’t happen, then you’re setting yourself up for failure.

For example, writing a goal as “world domination” isn’t going to happen in any real sense of the word so this is just ridiculous, but a goal of “capturing over fifty percent of the market share” is a potentially attainable one. If you still can’t manage with “capturing over fifty percent”, then maybe you should consider trying to capture an amount that is smaller, and then set a goal to work on trying to reproduce what you did in order to increase your market share.

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