10 Steps to Goal Achievement for 2006: Step #4

Step 4: Write Down Your Goals

In a 10 step goal setting process you would think that step number one should be writing down your goals. However, I have found that if you do not take care of the first three steps as I have illustrated above, writing down goals may not get you to the finish line.

You positively have to take care of the things that may hold you back from success. If not, then you may be wasting your time and getting very frustrated with your results.

Before you write goals down on paper, make sure they are your goals and not someone else’s. In other words, if you are a chain smoker and your wife wants you to quit smoking, make sure you want to quit. If your wife is dictating your goal, you have a slim chance of achieving it. Conversely if you want your wife to loose weight and become more attractive, she will probably gain more weight than ever before. Losing weight has to be her goal and not yours. You can both support each other on your goal seeking journey but make sure you are working on your goals and not dictating another person’s goals.

When writing down your goals, do not restrict your goal because you feel it is impossible for you to reach. For example, let’s assume that John is totally blind. John has an unrestricted goal of becoming a professional football player.

On the surface you may think that John is crazy for creating a goal like that. However, since we have no control over what the National Football League in this country or football leagues in other countries are doing, how can we be sure that some professional football association in some country of the world begins a league for blind individuals?

There could be a league like that right now!

Do not let our limitations of knowledge restrict us in our goal creation. Always remember that there are plenty of people out there that want us to fail at anything we want to achieve. If we do fail, let us at least go after an unbelievable dream rather than a task.

Goals and Tasks

A goal is your dream with a deadline. A task is something a boss, a spouse or someone else in power wants us to achieve, also with a deadline.

Example

Most people get goals and tasks mixed up. If you have a sales job for example and your boss says your goal is to sell 100 widgets by the end of the month, that is not your goal. It is a task assigned by someone else. If you decide, “I will only earn X amount of income if I sell 100 widgets as my boss has directed.” “I want to earn XX amount of income so I want to sell 200 widgets in order to achieve my goal.”

Selling twice as much as your boss wanted you to sell makes it your goal. As soon as you complete selling 100 widgets, you have completed a task. Once you reach 200 widgets you have achieved your goal.

Goals are things you want to achieve. Tasks are things other people want you to achieve.

Always have your goals in mind. Our minds are like heat seeking missiles when it comes to goals. If we do not have any goals in mind, we will go after something anyway. Many times it is something that we do not really want for ourselves.

Daily Goal Focus

Focus on your goals each morning. In fact read over all 10 steps every morning. When a goal has no purpose for you anymore or you decide you will not be happy achieving that goal, just cross it off your list. Substitute a new goal for the one crossed off.

Summary:

Keep your mind and body active by always having lofty goals to achieve. Write down your goals making sure they are your goals and not tasks assigned by others. Your goals are important. Read over your goals and the 10 step program each day. Revise when needed.

Wayne F. Perkins

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