The Importance of Setting Goals

Creating and identifying your personal goals is key to your personal and professional life. Goals will help you stay motivated and help you break down what can be a momentous task into small manageable steps.

Here are some tips to help you create your own successful personal goal plan:

#1 -Chart your goals. Keeping track of your goals is important. You may want to start by charting down all of your goals in one place where you can easily keep track of them. Give your goals estimated dates of accomplishment and reward yourself as you tick off your successes.

Keeping track of your goals in this manner will help you stay motivated and keep you moving in the right direction. Experts have agreed that we are more likely to stick to our plans if we have well-thought out and specific goals weíre aiming for. Charting your goals helps you do that.

#2 – Overcome your obstacles. We all have obstacles we need to find a way around. In business, it may be balancing your family life with work, or perhaps squeezing in time to build your business around your full-time job. Whatever your current situation, it may help to write down your obstacles together with a resolution plan to help you get over them.

For example, if you have very little time to build your business, write a realistic plan to keep you on track. Even if you only have an hour a day, it is much more realistic to write that down than to aim for five hours and end up disappointed.

#3 – Celebrate your successes. Many of us have goals which we strive for, but often times we only celebrate our big accomplishments. However, it’s important to celebrate the small successes just as much as the big ones.

A good way to do this is to have smaller goals as well as large ones. Then chart your progress and identify all of your achievements, big or small.

Taking time to celebrate your small achievements will give you a sense of accomplishment which may help you tackle your larger goals.

You can celebrate with small treats such as purchasing that special item you’ve wanted for months, treating yourself to a special day, or going out for a celebration dinner. It really doesn’t matter how you celebrate as long as you acknowledge your job well done, and start focusing on your next goals.

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Author: jm

Joan Mullally has been doing business online for more than 20 years and is a pioneer in the fields of online publishing, marketing, and ecommerce. She is the author of more than 200 guides and courses designed to help beginner and intermediate marketers make the most of the opportunities the Internet offers for running a successful business. A student and later teacher trainee of Frank McCourt’s, she has always appreciated the power of the word, and has used her knowledge for successful SEO and PPC campaigns, and powerful marketing copy. One computer science class at NYU was enough to spark her fascination with all things digital. In her spare time, she works with adult literacy, animal fostering and rescue, and teaching computer skills to women.