Flex Your Goal Setting Muscle - Goal Setting Tools

Anything you want to achieve in your life is possible; all you need to do is set a goal and take steps towards it. Big or small you can create goals for every area of your life, I have found the most success when I create goals based on the following categories. . .

- Me
- Family
- Health
- Money
- Contribution
Me: goals are all about you. It's all the things you want to become, do and acquire in your life.
earn, save and what you want to do with it.
Family: goals that you create as a family or about family. You can include friends in this category as well.
earn, save and what you want to do with it.
Health: If you have the good fortune to have it, what goals will you set to try and maintain it? Here is where you would include a nutritious meal plan and exercise.
earn, save and what you want to do with it.
Money: goals about how much you want to earn, save and what you want to do with it.
earn, save and what you want to do with it.
Contribution: VERY, VERY important to give back. What do you want to share with others?

Why Resolutions Don't Work
Every New Year's Eve many people with the best intentions make resolutions for the upcoming year. By January 15 most of them cannot remember the resolutions they have made.

Resolutions don't work.

The main reason is that the habits we have are stronger than the resolutions we make. For resolutions to stick they need be goals with commitment, emotions and actions. To achieve, all you need to do is flex your goal setting muscles. Start with a private commitment to yourself to stick with the goal no matter what. For a real challenge make the goal public to your family and friends. Next you need to develop high level 10 positive energy. How would you feel if you knew deep down in your gut that you had no limits? High energy is key to achieving your goals and creating real success for yourself, because it triggers a surge in your believe system. The faster you truly believe a goal to be possible, the quicker it will be achieved. Once your Goal Success belief system is in place you will start to take the necessary actions to achieve.

Goal Setting 101
The best way to create your goals is to use the SMART system
Specific: Create a picture in writing with lots of details about the goal you want to achieve
Measurable: Set mini goals to track your progress. Yearly, Monthly, Weekly and Daily
Attainable: The goal should stretch and challenge you not break you. Don't set out to run a marathon before you run a 5K
Relevant: Your goals need to be about and for YOU; not what you parents, spouses, siblings or friends think is best for you.
Timely: Your goals must have a due date, something for you to work towards.

Action
You are now ready to start creating the powerful goals to help you achieve success however you define it, but the best written goals will do nothing for you if you do not take some ACTION. Statistics say that those who write their goals down have 97% success rate over those who don't.

So get started write now, here are a few more tips to help you get started . . .

1. Use the SMART it is a proven formula that works
2. Write goals in the present tense, as if the goal you want to achieve has already happened. Jim Carrey wrote a million dollar cheque to himself and dated it, which helped him sign the deal for The Mask.
3. Write in the first person, use I statements.

Now it's your turn, think of 1 step you can do today to move you closer to your goals. Take it 1 step at a time, be consistent and you will achieve success in your goal in no time.

Flex your goals setting muscle for success today !

Here is a 2008 Goal Worksheet that you can use to decide which goals you will concentrate on for the rest of this year.

Written goals get accomplished. Do you have your top 5 goals written down and visible where you can see them everyday?

Print a copy of this 2009 goal work sheet and you're one step closer to making it happen in 2009!

Goal Worksheet

2010 Goal worksheet coming soon!

HINT: Print one every month to have your top 5 goals for the month visable.

"Focus on your potential instead of your limitations." Alan Loy McGinnis

FutureMe.org

FutureMe.org is a website that allows you to send yourself an email in the future. I am a firm believer in writing your goals down, I have been doing it for years and it really works. There is power in having your sub-concious mind work for you on your goals. Now there is a place where you can have your goals written down and set reminders for yourself to measure your progress.

"What gets measured gets done!" John E. Jones

December 2010 how will your life look, what do you want to Be, Do, Have & Achieve? Are you ready to commit to living your best life?

"Then it's time to write it down!

Check out FutureMe.org

"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals." Zig Ziglar

"Knowing your destination is half the journey." Anonymous

"All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do." Norman Vincent Peale

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." C.S. Lewis

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things." Albert Einstein

"A goal properly set is halfway reached." Abraham Lincoln

"Choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything." Scott Reed

"Focus on your potential instead of your limitations." Alan Loy McGinnis

"Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive." Bill Copeland

"To achieve happiness, we should make certain that we are never without an important goal." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps." Helmut Schmidt

"Goal setting is the core of existence that defines life." Joanne Bonomi

"Focus on your potential instead of your limitations." Alan Loy McGinnis

"The most important thing about goals is having one." Geoffry F. Abert

"You have to know what you want to get it." Gertrude Stein

"You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential." Steve Garvey

"Life's ups and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want." Martha Sinetar

"You can't reach your goals without occasionally taking some long shots." Unknown

"Your life is what your thoughts make it." Marcus Aurelius

"Look to the future, because that is where you'll spend the rest of your life." George Burns

"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe." Anatole France

"Nothing happens unless first we dream." Carl Sandburg

"It isn't where you come from, it's where you're going that counts." Ella Fitzgerald

"Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be." Henry David Thoreau

"Arriving at one point is the starting point to another." John Dewey

1. You are seeing positive results
2. New opportunities are coming your way
3. You're happy
4. You feel energized.
5. People start asking you "What's changed?"
6. A feeling of success and pride takes over
7. You sleep better
8. You make better choices
9. Feeling of control & freedom
10. You take action.

In order to achieve your most important goals you must learn how to concentrate on doing small consistent actions that move you in the direction of achieving your goals.

Making Your Goals Reality will explain . . .

· Why resolutions do not work

· What you need to do instead

· How to get and stay motivated

· How to turn your dreams into achieved goals

· How to create an action plan that works

· Create top 5 goals

· How to determine your focus and priorities

· 24 page eBook to get your goals on the right track of success

Making Your Goals Reality eBook

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