Goal Setting

Introduction

Life is wasted without a goal. Having a goal teaches you how to work, live and treat. Persons who are on the peak of success, the reason behind this is goal setting. Some time you decides but unable to complete due to some factors which have a great impact on the whole pathway.

Importance of goal setting

1. Drives you forward

Goals are a represent your inner desires; desires which inspire in life. The point when set goals mark one the points when you are most connected with your source of motivation.

2. Gives clarity on your end vision

“If you don’t have a goal in life, it means wasting your life running around unwanted things and not achieving anything.” Setting target gives clarity on what you ultimately want.

3. Gives laser focus

Goals give a single focal point to place your attention in. It gives exact focus on where exactly to spend your valuable time and essentially energy on.

4. Be the Best You Can Be

Goals help to achieve your highest potential. By giving your 100% and fight against the problem. These can give you to explore new places, new contexts, new situations.

5. Make you Accountable

Having focused goals makes you responsible. Rather than just about what you want all the time and not do work concrete about them, you are now obligated to take action

Why Goal Setting Fails

1.Setting Unrealistic Goals

When you’re not researching possible goals, have to make sure that it is realistic, and that you can actually achieve it in the time frame that has set for yourself unrealistic goal goes you down.

2. Underestimating Completion Time

If you have a task or project taken longer than thought? Probably more times than you can count! Interest and passionate about work decrease as per time delay. It also contains one lesson that can change your life way.

3. Setting "Other People's Goals

We are quite busy in listening to people- family, friends, or even your boss - may want to influence the goals you set. They feel that they know what best for, in reality, it is different.

4. Not appreciating failure

This important reason why goal setting fails. People never appreciate their failure, easily give up in work if success not got. Try but don’t cry.

5.Not reviewing progress

Small drops of water help to create oceans, Like that little bit of progress in work you have to appreciate it. We can’t go directly on peak point have to go through step by step.

6. Setting too many goals

Since childhood to till now we have lots of goals in our life. At a time we want to be more and more but it is not possible we can’t focus and divert easily. You have to focus on only one real goal.

Smart goals- SMART stands for the following factors.

Specific

Your target must be clear and well defined. The vague and generalized goal is unhelpful.

Measurable

Price, amount, date soon in goals so you can measures degree if success. If your goal is to reduce expenses how will you know how much has been reduction successful?. That’s why it’s necessary

Attainable

Make sure that the decided goal will be possible to achieve. If the goal has no hope of achieving you will only demoralize yourself and erode own confidence.

Relevant

If dream flying in the sky, walking on Mars, it is not possible. You have dreamed just completely within eyesight.

Time-bound

Your goal must have time limited. That can celebrate success.