Set a Goal and Congratulate Yourself.
submitted: 2008-04-05 03:23:14 |
by: ElliottRoberts
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Whether you are looking for greater rewards at home or at work, setting goals will put you on the fast track toward that success. Wandering around from task to task might get your to-dos done each day. If you do not write down your to-dos, though, it is very possible that you will forget at least one of them. In either case, you will not achieve your maximum potential because you are neither managing your priorities, nor giving yourself credit when you accomplish those tasks.
Along with a sense of achievement comes great motivation to accomplish more great things, as well as an ease in getting them accomplished. The beginning of this self help success starts with setting goals.
Some people struggle with using "goals" at home and it is understandable. We want to build our happy homes based on love, warmth, and organization, not cold business terms.
Managing your household is as complex as managing a business, and equally as important. If you are not comfortable with the term "goal setting" for whatever reason, come up with something else. "Life list" is a term on the rise and many prefer it because it sounds friendlier and transitions nicely from work place to household management. Call it what you want, put your lists on pretty stationery, whatever it takes to get you to participate because success outside the home is largely dependent upon success inside.
Your goal setting starts with brainstorming. Carve out a quiet time and place to contemplate what is important to you and what you want to achieve in your life today, as well as in the distant future. Open your mind to include your wildest dreams, regardless of cost or plausibility at the moment. From this page, draw your goals, dreams and desires and start to prioritize them.
Organize your goals in terms of short and long term. A short term goal might be to make it a habit to wake up one hour earlier every day to increase production at work or add that exercise routine.
In the short term you might want to clean out the garage. In the long term you may want to buy a business. Then expand your headings to include anything else so that every goal resulting from your brainstorming has a place to sit, such as "5 year goals" , "Lifetime goals", "wildest wishes", etc.
Make it enjoyable but realize, you are taking a powerful first step toward realizing your dreams because once you chart and realize your successes, you will be amazed by how motivated you are to achieve more, and how easily those achievements will come.
About the Author
The Author, Elliott Roberts, writes for Becomng, a Personal Development blog that deals with topics from health to web applications. Find additional Goal Setting articles here.
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