Goal Setting, Personal Planning and Success – The Key to Achievement in Life
Goal setting, personal planning and success go together like Richard Branson and the Virgin Group, success would not happen without goal setting and personal planning!
Why?
…It’s very simple – if you don’t know where you’re going and how you’re going to get there, you’ll never reach your destination. Put it that way and it’s obvious, yet so many people don’t use these two powerful tools when they are trying to make significant changes in their lives – and their lack of results shows the consequences!
You must avoid this mistake – when you set out to make a major change in your life allow yourself some time for goal setting and personal panning for success and that will get you there! You would do it if you were doing something small and simple like finding a grocery store in a new city. You’d get a map of where you wanted to go and you’d know what you wanted when you got there!
Start with the big picture, draw in the details
The process of goal setting and personal planning to successfully achieve your new life is like creating a great work of art. You start from the big picture, the outline drawing that shows you the end you want to achieve and then you draw in the details of how you get there.
The first step is to be clear about what you want to achieve in the shorter term, setting the goals for the work you are going to do. There are four important questions to answer: What are my personal goals, when do I want to reach these goals, how will this contribute to my life purpose and why do I want this?
Now draw in the details – personal planning
Start with your high level goal, what it is you want to achieve, identify a few, between 3 and 8, major steps that you are going to take to get there. These steps should be big enough that it’s not clear how you are going to do them. When you look at them together, you should know that they will get you to your goal without wasting any effort.
Finally, you need to make these steps into intermediate goals by setting a time by when they are going to be achieved.
Some examples might help. If you want to loose weight, your steps might be: find out how I’m going to loose weight (diet, exercise…), some intermediate targets for weight loss. If you want to get a promotion at work, the steps might be talk to my boss, do some work to find about the new position I am interested in, take a training course, demonstrate my capability for the job.
Each of the steps will need you to take some smaller intermediate steps to complete them. Work out what the smaller steps are, these should be steps that you can complete within a short space of time, certainly less than 1 week and put them in order. Start with your first intermediate goal, making sure you have a clear picture of how to get there. Plan steps beyond the first intermediate goals if you want to.
Goal Setting and personal planning – now it’s time for success!
Once you have your plan then it’s time for the next vital ingredient – ACTION!!!
Get started working your plan, don’t delay, don’t wait for the perfect moment. Just get going!
As you progress you’ll find that you will learn stuff that you couldn’t anticipate – that’s o.k., no one can foresee the future. Congratulate yourself on achieving what you have achieved and learning what you have learnt. Go back to your plan and ask yourself “How do adjust my plan in the light of my new knowledge”.
So now you’ve seen how to do goal setting and personal planning for success in your life ventures. Goal setting and personal planning are essential life skills that you must learn and perfect over time if you are to move your life forward. All the high achievers use this process to help them succeed.
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