10 Steps to Setting Goals

1. Write your goals on paper.
2. Keep it short and simple.
3. A goal should be a genuine desire: A goal should be something you will work for, something that is important to you. A goal must be passionately desired for it to be achieved.
4. Be realistic but at the same time optimistic: A goal should Push You – it should be something that you have to strive for.
5. Be specific: Be absolutely clear as to what you must do to achieve results and how and when you must do it. Reduce the goal to manageable units.
6. Get to work: Action should speak louder than words.
7. Motivate, Review and Adjust if Necessary: Change the target, make it bigger (Remember be realistic but optimistic). Any achievement is better than no achievement at all.
8. Keep them to yourself: You should keep your personal goals private because there will always be people who will try to discourage you. Don’t give them chance to pull you down with their sinking ship.
9. Set different ranges of goals: Long term goals should not be too specific. The important thing is to have an overall objective in mind. To know where you want to be a few years down the track.
10. Concentrate on smashing through them: When it comes to striving towards a goal don’t stop at the finishing line. Instead set yourself a new target, a new finishing line and a new goal to replace, the one you just lost by winning it.