Okay, you know you are smart and have some skills, but you are still frustrated and spinning your wheels. Do you feel like you are not even tapping your full potential? That you try and try and are not really getting anywhere?
This may sound like it is describing you, but don't fret because you are not alone. Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world have a hard time setting and achieving goals, so don't be too hard on yourself. We can examine how successful people actually set and reach their goals.
You can change your life, and give it meaning and purpose, by learning how to achieve goals. Setting and reaching goals is a habit, and like all habits, they take time and conscious effort to develop into long-lasting ones.
What you're having trouble with in your life right now may boil down to the fact that you don't know how to achieve goals. That may sound simplistic, and certainly not 100 percent of the difficulties of life revolve around this question, but the vast majority of them do.
Take someone who's having trouble with their finances. They've been meaning to address it for some time, but they just never have gotten around to it. So months after they first notice the problem, they're still in the same boat, wondering why.
If you can figure out how you want your life to be different, then you can make path from where you are now to where (and how) you want to be. Write this down, be descriptive. Then write out each step you will have to take to get you to your goal. Make smaller steps if one step seems to much for you to do.
Another thing that successful goal-achievers use is a time frame. This is not just a time frame of when you want to reach your overall goal, but when you plan to finish each step that will take you to your goal. Also, make sure this is specific. Say "July 4th, 2010", instead of the "Summer of 2010".
If you honestly apply just these two steps to an area of your life, you should see almost an immediate difference. Goal setting and achieving has to be a way of life, a habit, for it to be effective. And think about it, you deserve success!
This may sound like it is describing you, but don't fret because you are not alone. Millions of people in the U.S. and around the world have a hard time setting and achieving goals, so don't be too hard on yourself. We can examine how successful people actually set and reach their goals.
You can change your life, and give it meaning and purpose, by learning how to achieve goals. Setting and reaching goals is a habit, and like all habits, they take time and conscious effort to develop into long-lasting ones.
What you're having trouble with in your life right now may boil down to the fact that you don't know how to achieve goals. That may sound simplistic, and certainly not 100 percent of the difficulties of life revolve around this question, but the vast majority of them do.
Take someone who's having trouble with their finances. They've been meaning to address it for some time, but they just never have gotten around to it. So months after they first notice the problem, they're still in the same boat, wondering why.
If you can figure out how you want your life to be different, then you can make path from where you are now to where (and how) you want to be. Write this down, be descriptive. Then write out each step you will have to take to get you to your goal. Make smaller steps if one step seems to much for you to do.
Another thing that successful goal-achievers use is a time frame. This is not just a time frame of when you want to reach your overall goal, but when you plan to finish each step that will take you to your goal. Also, make sure this is specific. Say "July 4th, 2010", instead of the "Summer of 2010".
If you honestly apply just these two steps to an area of your life, you should see almost an immediate difference. Goal setting and achieving has to be a way of life, a habit, for it to be effective. And think about it, you deserve success!
About the Author:
April Ladrey is passionate about achieving her goals. Are you? Visit her newest blog on goals setting. Also, find out why writing goals down is so important to achieving your dreams!
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