Personal Goal Setting Success

Personal goal setting success does not only rely on your ability to set goals, although at first read it might sound like it should.

Most people make goals – just think of all those New Years Resolutions.

Some people make goals regularly and have lists and lists of goals. Other people make goals once in a while, or just when they feel like it.

Both these sets of people, once they have set their goals, have, in theory, personal goal setting success. They have done what they set out to do - they have set their goals.

For personal goal setting success all you really need to do is sit down and think. You may also want to write. And if you are serious about achieving your goals, you should write.

It has been proven that written goals are much more likely to be achieved than those just in your mind, thoughts or imagination.

Of course if by imagination you mean Visualization we are off on another track … so back to our written goals.

Write down your goals, with dates, information as to how you can measure them etc.

Then you have personal goal setting success right there in front of you on your paper.

Aaah! But that is not what we really mean when we say “personal goal setting success” is it?

What we mean is personal goal achieving success!

Time to move on to the achievement part.

If you have done the SMART goals you will now have a full plan written out.

But until you take action nothing more will happen.

Get moving.

Just keep putting one foot in front of the other until you arrive at your destination.

Don’t give up.

If it all seems overwhelming, just focus on the next few steps, the next few hours or days or whatever seems like a manageable chunk. And once you successfully conquer that chunk, move ahead with the next one.

When you feel stuck, when it seems that things just aren’t working out, don’t give up.

Keep on going.

If you think it will help, take a step or two back and evaluate how better to move ahead. If what you have already done is fine, just keep on going ahead.

If you have to do something you don’t understand fully, start it. Get a feel for it. Then keep on going.

If your way ahead is totally blocked, sit down and think what is the best detour. There is always more than one way to do anything.

The only think that will take you from personal goal setting success to personal goal achieving success is persistence.

Finding it too much on your own?

Ask for support and encouragement from those around you.

Here are two stories, which you have probably heard before, about amazing persistence that had such an effect on the lives of the people involved, that we still remember them – and remember them very well – today.

Abraham Lincoln's 30 year Trek to Become The 16th President Of The United States

1816 Worked to support his family after they were evicted from their home.

1818 His mother died.

1831 He failed in business.

1832 He was defeated for legislature.

1832 He lost his job and couldn't get accepted into law school.

1833 He declared bankruptcy, then spent the next 17 years back the debt & borrowed money from friends to start a business.

1834 He was defeated for legislature a second time.

1835 He was engaged to be married, but his fiancee died, leaving him heartbroken.

1836 He had a nervous breakdown, spending the next six months in bed.

1838 He was defeated in becoming the speaker of the state legislature.

1840 He was defeated in becoming elector.

1843 He was defeated for Congress

1846 He was defeated for Congress a second time.

1848 He was defeated for Congress a third time.

1849 He was rejected for the job of Land Officer in his own state.

1854 He was defeated for Senate.

1856 He was defeated for Vice-President, in fact he got less than 100 votes.

1858 He was defeated for Senate for a third time.

1860 He was FINALLY elected President of the United States.

And Thomas Edison didn't find it a breeze to invent the electric lightbulb either!

Thomas Edison's early attempts to come up with the right material for a light bulb were unsuccessful. He had tried over a thousand different elements and every one of them had failed.

A colleague asked him if it had been a waste of time putting in all this work with no successful outcome.

"No," Edison is said to replied. "I have discovered a thousand things that don't work."

Think what would have happened if either Abe Lincoln or Thomas Edison had stopped at personal goal setting success!

No electric lights … and a very different history of the USA!

When you reach your goal, especially if it was a challenging one, you will not only have done what you set out to do.

You will have increased your self confidence and self esteem, which in turn will make it that much easier for you to turn your next goal setting session into a goal achievement success also!

Go to it!

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