Personal Development Goals Planning Guide By Johnny C

As a human being, you should never stop improving yourself. You have to make sure to be a better person each day in order to reach the seventh heaven and be successful in life. However, being a better person means improving your overall self everyday. This may be a daunting task to do but it is only during the first couple of days. This is due to the fact that there is no such thing as daunting task if you are really into it and if you really want to be a better person. As a matter of fact, the very first thing which you should do is to set your personal development goals.

You have your own goals in doing anything. You wake up early every morning so that you won't be late to school or work. You drink water to quench your thirst. Having and setting your goals is important so that tracking any improvements in your life would be a lot easier on your part. Nevertheless, you have to properly set your goals. This only means that you have to make them as simple and realistic as possible. In doing so, you can achieve some sense of fulfillment every time you accomplish any of your goals.

Once you are done setting your goals, your next concern has something to do with the ways on how you can make your goals come into life and realization. The following are some simple ways, which you can consider as personal development goals guide that you can use to achieve all your goals in life:

* Think positive. Always think that you can make it. You have to think optimistically that you can achieve all your goals in time. This will serve as your driving force to strive harder just to make your goals happen. There is no room for negativities when it comes to achieving your goals in life for those will just be a hindrance in your attempts to move forward.

* Keep your focus. You should not waste your time in nonsense things. You have to always keep your focus on your goals so that you can be certain that you can be successful as well as happy by the end of the day. Besides, it is easier to keep moving forward when your focus is on your goals in life.

* Use all your skills and capabilities. All your goals in life will be insignificant if you are not going to use properly all your skills and capabilities. Hence, you have to make sure that as you keep your focus on your goals, you also have to utilize your magnificent skills, as well as capabilities to accomplish your entire goals in life.

Indeed, the first thing, which you need to do in order to be happy and successful, is to set all your personal development goals and then accomplish them all. Setting your goals is simpler than making all your goals happen. Nonetheless, the ways mentioned above can somehow make it easier for you. Be a happy person, as well as a very successful individual person in the days to come.

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What Everybody Should Know About Setting Goals By Andrew Rondeau

Probably the hardest part of setting goals is the first step of actually deciding to take action! The main hurdle that most people face is the incorrect assumption that goals are only for business or sales-minded people. The reality is everyone subconsciously sets goals throughout their day. There are always occasions where something has to be done at a particular time or place. Simple examples could be getting up at a certain time in order to be at work, or to meet with a friend for a leisure activity.

After years of sales meetings, one small statement made me realise that this process is as natural as breathing. The beauty of having goals is the uniqueness of each one to the person setting the goal. They are very specific to them and their circumstances whether in the area of business, financial, personal or spiritual.

The most important part initially, is to write them down. Having the goals written down gives incredible power and focus to your efforts.

Aim for something that will stretch you whilst remaining achievable. If the goal is achieved too easily it is not high enough to make any significant change in your life and needs to be adjusted. On the other hand, if you consistently miss the goal, re-evaluate and consider setting it a little lower as you will probably get discouraged and give up. The aim is to keep growing, and moving into a more satisfactory position for your circumstances.

The goal should be as specific as possible with a benefit of attaining it. Another good idea is to also have the result of not reaching the goal. This will strengthen your resolve to take the necessary action.

As you obtain the levels that you have set for yourself always include a small reward at each point. This will only need to be a small treat in the beginning, such as a meal out or a weekend vacation.

Remember that these changes will not take place overnight and there will be a period of time when nothing seems to be happening. This is why the goals need to be detailed and as specific as possible with a consequence and a benefit.

Allow some time on a daily basis to educate yourself on how to make the necessary adjustments in your life. This could include listening to a cd or reading a book on motivation etc. There is an enormous amount of resources available to anyone looking for help in this area.

A simple method to start with could be one goal in the main areas of life to be achieved in one month, six months, one year and five years. Break that down further into a daily, weekly and monthly plan.

The main areas could include: Career, Finance, Personal Growth, Health, Family, Relationships, Social Life, Home.

To summarise. Have goals across your main areas of life. Write them down, be specific, allow time. Review and adjust on a regular basis. Stay focussed and disciplined to achieve all you desire.

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3 Great Reasons For Setting Goals By Daniel Britton

Goal setting is not new. Many business and motivational experts such as Jim Rohn or Brian Tracy have been extolling their virtues for many years. Napoleon Hill in the classic Think and Grow Rich writes:
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe he can achieve”.

But how exactly can the process of setting goals bring about tangible results?

For many, the goal of running a marathon is all about crossing the finish line. Consider this, that the larger achievement is the ability to get to the start line. The race itself may last 3, 4 or 5 hours depending on your ability, but the preparation will have been many weeks and months of effort, dedication and motivation. In other words the person you will have to become to be in the condition to start the race is the more significant part of achieving the goal.

Listen to an athlete, a best-selling author, a successful professional, or entrepreneur - they will all talk about dreams and goals! The visualisation of their achievements and success is in their minds way before they appear in reality. These are goals that have created passion in their lives, that move them into daily, monthly and yearly action, and that bring emotion because of the clear sacrifices that have been made preceding long aspired victories. Goals can create miracles and accomplishment by providing the inspiration to take action.

The Reticular activating System (RAS)
The reticular activating system is part of the brain that asks like a filter between the conscious and subconscious mind. It takes instructions from the conscious mind and passes them on to the subconscious. For example, the instruction might be, 'listen out for anyone saying my name'.

At any one time, we are receiving around 100,000 times more information than we are capable of processing. Most of the incoming stimulus is irrelevant to us so the RAS filters let in only what we need.

For example imagine that you are at a party and you are in deep conversation with someone on one side of the room. There is a lot of information that your mind could be processing, all the sights, sounds, smells, conversations etc but the conscious mind can only handle a small part of the information. Suddenly your attention is drawn to another conversation across the room because someone mentioned your name.

Another good example is when you have bought or are considering buying a new car. Suddenly that exact make and model are everywhere. It appears highly unlikely that there are suddenly more of those cars around, it’s just that you now begin to notice them.

So in what ways can the RAS influence goal achievement? First, you can deliberately program the reticular activating system by choosing the exact messages you send from your conscious mind. For example, by setting goals, saying affirmations, or visualising your goals.

Secondly, your RAS cannot distinguish between 'real events' and imagined one. In other words it tends to believe whatever message you give it. Once we ae aware of this we can use it to our advantage. Imagine that you're going to attend an interview. You can rehearse the event by visualising it in your mind. This 'pretend' practice should improve your confidence and performance at the interview.

What we need to do is to create a very specific picture of our goal in our conscious mind. The RAS will then pass this on to our subconscious - which will then help us achieve the goal. It does this by bringing to our attention all the relevant information which otherwise might have remained as 'background noise'. We then notice new opportunities and ways in which we can make our goals a reality.

A third reason why goal setting works is that the process of defining your goals brings you into alignment with your true desires and values. If for example, a person sets a goal to be a millionaire but inwardly has hidden and limiting beliefs about money, then the goal is unlikely to be achieved. It is only when the conscious and subconscious minds are in harmony that a person will identify opportunities and take the inspired action which is necessary for success.

An effective goal setting session should therefore incorporate a period of evaluation and review. In this way the underlying values and motivations can be identified. It is often said that the Why is more important than the How, and this is certainly true of goal setting and goal achievement. Once a clear reason is established as to why the achievement of the goal is so important then the vision of its success is more likely to bring the goal into reality.

In conclusion goal setting is an important method of:

• Deciding what is important for you to achieve in your life;
• Separating what is important from what is irrelevant, or a distraction;
• Motivating yourself; and
• Building your self-confidence, based on successful achievement of goals.

If you don't already set goals, there will never a better time to start than right now. As you make this technique part of your life, you'll find your career accelerating, improve your relationships and bring your dreams into reality. Further resources and a goal setting checklist is available from the SuccessBlog

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