Goal Setting Is Your First Step to Success

Success is a "Premeditated Act". It begins by setting goals. That explains why goal setting is an essential and important step which many of the success and prosperity coaches encourage when mentoring a student or giving advice to clients.

What is a goal anyway ? What is effective goal setting ?

First, you need to have your goals written down. That way, you will constantly remind yourself what are you after and not short change yourself. Do you know someone who told you that they wish to achieve something in the new year and ended up achieving nothing ? They get so hyped up during the start of the new year but because they did not have their goals written, they gradually forgot about them as time passes.

So, write your goals down. Use some Psychology Tactics to boost your self-motivation. Eg: you want an Audi R8. Get a picture of it and paste it beside your goals. You want a dream vacation to Tihiti.. do you have a picture of the island ? Paste it at your bedroom door or your restroom so that you constantly remind yourself of your goals. - Goal

Second, you need to PLAN your goals. Yes. Goal setting is not just about writing down what you want, but also what you are going to do to achieve it. I say again, write down your plans and your strategy in achieving your goals. The plans will be like a check list towards your goal. With your plans written down, you will be able to know what needs to be done and what has not been done.

As you all know, Planning without action leads to nowhere. Action without planning doesn't always move you in the direction in which you want to go. A lot of people make this mistake when setting goals. They don't plan... and the end result, they settle for less. - Planning

Third, you need to set a time line for your goal. Goal setting is not effective when it does not have a specific time line. Let me just say that a GOAL is a specific measurable and Time Bound end in which you take specific action until achieved.

With a specific time line, you can measure your efforts and your current status vs your goals. Let say you wish to make an additional $25,000 in your income by Jul 2009. Come March, you are only making an additional $500. Now you can measure your efforts vs current status vs your goal. Do you need to step up your effort ? What have you not done ? What else needs to be done in order to expedite your performance, efficiency towards your goal ? - TimeLine

Last but not least is doing what you have set out to do. I believe all of us know that we can have everything in the world, but we need to work for it.. so.. Action is the word.. - Action

I wish to share one of the most valuable lesso
I've learnt over the past years -- Jean Paul Getty, one of the wealtiest man the world has ever known once quote this Secret of Success >> G.S.A

Know what it means ? set your Goals, Strategise it, and take massive Action...