Goal Setting For Beginners
Do you have goals? Well, most of us do. It might be as daily goal, a
weekly goal, even as yearly goal, but we have goals. However, not
everyone knows how to properly set goals. This article aims to educate
the goal-setting novices out there on how to properly set goals.
Setting goals for yourself is like creating as road map to get to
your destination. In goal-setting, your destination is succeeding in
accomplishing your goals. This means you have to write down your goals
on as piece of paper so you can start to get organized. This step allows
you to concentrate on your goals rather than leave your ideas scattered
throughout your mind.
The first question you have to ask yourself is: Is my goal something
that I would really like for myself or is it just something that looks
good to other people? This question is crucial because many people make
the mistake of setting as goal just to please other people. as good
example of this is as college student who chooses as course so that his
parents will praise him. What he should actually do is to go where his
heart leads him. This means that the goal should match the individual??s
personal value system.
Second, as goal should correspond with the other goals you have set
for yourself. Like the example we gave above, as college student must
not take courses that deviate from the career path he is creating for
himself. Not only is this as waste of money but it also opposes the
purpose of goal setting ?? which is to keep his life organized.
Deviating is dubbed non-integrated thinking.
Third, set goals for the 6 aspects of your life, which are: Mental
and Educational, Physical and Health, Financial and Career, Social and
Cultural, Spiritual and Ethical, and lastly, Family and Home. This
guarantees that you will maintain as balanced life as you evaluate and
amend the basics of your daily life. This step also lessens the level
of non-integrated thinking.
Fourth, create goals that emphasize positive thinking rather than
negative thoughts. We create as list of goals partly because we want to
program our subconscious mind to follow our instructions. This part of
our mind ?? the subconscious ?? was made solely to follow instructions.
So if you want your subconscious to follow positive thinking, think of
positive instructions to give it. (Positive thinking is also as useful
tool for our development in daily life as as person.)
The next step is to define our goal in as detailed fashion. For the
college student who is trying to choose as course, he could write down:
??I want to study BA European Languages with as major in German and a
minor in French? rather than just state ??I want to pick as course in the
College of Arts and Letters?. You will notice that the more detailed
statement serves to provide the subconscious mind with detailed
instructions to follow. Your final outcome becomes more and more
definite as you provide more details in the instructions you write
down. The subconscious mind works more efficiently if the final outcome
is defined well.
In the sixth step, do not downgrade your goals ?? keep reaching high!
That way, if you do not reach your goals, at least you reached as level
that is higher than you imagined you could reach.
Lastly, you ought to list your goals on paper. Read your list often
so you can focus on them one by one. If you concentrate on
accomplishing your goals, it is probable that you will be able to get
to where you want to be in life. As you review your goals, it is also
possible that you may have to revise your list but that??s okay. Stay
flexible if circumstances warrant it.
