5 Simple Steps to Setting and Reaching Your Goals
by Success Expert Sharmen Lane

You are probably thinking “Yeah, yeah, I’ve heard about the importance of setting goals before”… Well many of us have heard about it and few of us do it. Those who do set goals generally do it once a year, on New Years Day. And that’s not enough!

Setting your goals is one thing, reaching them is entirely another. That is precisely why most people don’t reach their goals. There is a lot more to goals than simply setting them once. Just like going to the gym, you don’t work out one time, get the body you want and then say “Yippee, glad that’s over, never have to do that again”. This, like many things, is a process. This process is what I call Goal Setting Made Simple.

First step is to look out on the horizon and determine what the final outcome is. What is the end result that you are looking for? Whatever it is, write it down and be very clear.

Second thing to do is write down all the logistics. Brainstorm by thinking about and then writing down what needs to be done in order to reach that goal. Usually there is more than one thing for you to take action on. Therefore, you need to break down the end goal into a lot of little ones. I call this dicing. Chopping up a big goal, into a bunch of weekly or daily ones.

Third step, after you have determined all that needs to be done to reach your goal, prioritize them. Keep in simple by just numbering the steps from 1 to whatever. This doesn’t mean the order wont change, but at least you will have a starting point and you will have some directions to follow.

Step Four. Now you know what needs to be done and what it’s going to take to get you there. Now write it in your calendar. Depending on how many steps it will take and how passionate you are about reaching your goal, will determine how often you need to take action. You may need to write down and do the smaller tasks once a month. If there are a lot of steps you need to take you may need to write down and take action every week, day or perhaps every hour.

That leads us to step number five and that step is take action. I believe you need to take action every single day. That way you will always be making progress and you won’t lose momentum. Each day you will be one step closer to getting what you want. So step five is, do something, take action every single day towards reaching your goal. Before you know it you will be, do or have it.

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