Doug D’Anna’s latest ‘e-Wealth Daily’ article is titled “The Powerful Practice of Setting Goals”. [‘e-Wealth Daily’ Article]


Doug D’Anna’s latest ‘e-Wealth Daily’ article:

The Powerful Practice of Setting Goals

Setting goals is a powerful practice that should fill you with enthusiasm and give you a clear sense of direction. If you do it well, it will turn your vague, undefined dreams into precise plans of action. There are essentially seven steps to mapping out your plan in order to achieve your goals:

Step One: Decide what you want. If you don’t know what you want out of life, then you’ll never accomplish much of anything. So, the first step in creating and achieving your goals is to decide what ones work best for you. The whole point of the goal-setting process is to look at yourself more closely and see where you are now, where you want to be in the future, and what you need to do in order to get there.

Step Two: Get excited about your goal. If you aren’t excited about it, if you don’t spend your days dreaming about accomplishing it, then your goal probably isn’t the right one for you — you should probably reevaluate what you want.

Step Three: Define your goal. Once you’ve decided where you want to be five years from now, for example, and are excited about getting there, then you are ready to break your dream down into the steps you’ll have to take that are necessary to achieve it.

Step Four: Identify any obstacles that you will need to overcome in the process of achieving your goal. This is necessary in order for you to fulfill your goal. Nothing in life is accomplished without jumping a few hurdles first, so why should achieving goals be any easier?

Step Five: Make a viable action plan. Once you have determined all of the above information, you’ll be ready to put together your action plan. Your action plan will be like a business plan: a detailed account that specifies exactly how you plan to achieve your goals.

Step Six: Examine the achievability of your action plan. After you have completed your action plan, reread it and ask yourself, “Can I realistically accomplish what I have set out to do within the timeframe I have stated?” If your answer is “no,” then revise and fine-tune the parts of the action plan that are questionable. Remember that unrealistic expectations only lead to disappointment.

Step Seven: Be persistent. Once you have created your action plan, you must be persistent in following through with it. Don’t give up if something doesn’t go as planned; instead, analyze your goals, analyze your plan, decide where you went wrong, revise your goal, and try again. It is common knowledge that the highest achievers are those individuals who persevere the most. If they get rejected, they don’t give up; they just keep trying harder instead.

The better you plan for your future, the easier your journey will be. If you want to see your goals achieved, then you need to have a clear plan of action in place before you even set out to make things happen.

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