Your ability to set and achieve goals will provide you a sense of direction. The bottom line is that if you want success, you can have it. It does not matter where you are now, how much success you have or do not have. The only thing that matters is your attitude and your willingness to do the things it takes to become successful. Clear, specific goals are a must for every area of our lives
Remember that a plan is critical to the success of your goals. Any plan is better than no plan at all. Clear, specific goals combined with a realistic and workable plan, will create a complete and integrated system for success & achievement.
10 Steps For Increasing Your Goal Achievement:
- Decide exactly what You want in each area of your life.
How much do you want to earn? What kind of home do you want to live in? What kind of car do you want to drive? What kinds of activities do you want to be involved with? What about your health, kids, school, friends, etc.?
- Write down your goals on paper.
Write you goals in clear, specific and measurable terms. Writing down goals takes them out of your imagination and crystallizes them into the physical world. It takes them from being a wish to a place where you can see them and touch them each and every day.
Writing down goals combined with daily action toward achieving them, works virtually without exception.
- Set a deadline for achieving your goal.
The subconscious mind responds very well to clear specific deadlines. Setting a deadline deepens and intensifies your desire for the goal. It will increase your belief that you can accomplish your goal. On big goals, break it apart into smaller goals. For example break a one-year goal into 6 month, 3 month, 1 month and even 1-week segments. This will make it easier to accomplish your goal and will provide you with a very detailed plan of what you need to do right now to reach the next step of your goal. So what if you miss a deadline? Simple, set another deadline! There's no such thing as unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines. A deadline is really just a guess based on current knowledge. If your knowledge changes to a point were you need to change a deadline, do so, but don't give up on the goal.
- Identify the major obstacles.
Identify the obstacles that stand between you and your goal. Make a list of everything that could be blocking you. Ask yourself, "Why am I not at my goal already?"
- Identify the knowledge, skills, abilities and additional information you will require to achieve your goals.
All forward movement requires the acquisition and application of new ideas or information of some kind. Keep asking, "Why am I not at my goal already?" What is the missing "key piece" of knowledge that is setting the speed of how fast you achieve your goal?
- Identify the people, groups and organizations whose help, assistance and cooperation you will need to achieve your goal.
You can achieve little goals by yourself but it takes teamwork to achieve the really big ones. Make a list of all the people in your life (friends, family, coworkers, people with special skills, etc.) that can either help you or hinder you in the attainment of your objective. Once you have that list organize it by priority.
You have probably heard the saying, "The devil is in the details." The most successful people in this world are those who are the most meticulous and careful about the details in their lives. They tend to think on paper. They check and double-check everything. They leave absolutely nothing to chance.
Create a plan to accomplish your goal based on the first 6 steps. List every detail you can think of. As you think of more items add them to your plan. Keep working until your plan is complete. This will undoubtedly take some time but once complete you will have created a powerful springboard for your own success.
Be sure to prioritize your plan by priority and sequence. The most important steps should be completed first. First remove your major obstacles, then gain the skills and knowledge you need followed by the other more specific tasks.
- Take action on your plan.
Action is perhaps the most readily identifiable quality of highly successful people. Action is critical for the success of your plan. It's vital to do something every day that moves you closer to your goal. All successful people are action oriented.
- Visualize your goals as a reality.
Imagine what your life will be like once you accomplish your goals. Your mind cannot tell the difference between something that you vividly imagine and what is real.
Make a decision right now that you will never give up on your goal. A New York study revealed that 95% of those people who wrote down their goals and made plans eventually achieved them. The one key requirement was that they did not quit when the going got rough.
There are a lot of misconceptions and get rich quick promises in Real Estate that lead to plenty of false expectations. As a result many people quit when they realize that their expectations were wrong. Only those who are determined to succeed, those who refuse to give up will win in the end. For its this same determination that will lead you to discover what it really takes to succeed in Real Estate.
The difference between millionaires and Billionaires is that millionaires read their goals once a day and Billionaires read them twice a day.
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