Goal Setting: Your First Step To Unlimited Success!
Goal setting is the starting point for charting your path to Destination Success. Later on in your journey you will understand that goal setting also is the fundamental building block for your strategic business planning.
Because you will have to put a lot of yourself into earning your future success, you should want to like yourself and what you are doing when you arrive at your destination. So, first make sure that your very hard work will get you where you want to be – and that you will enjoy yourself along the way. Realistic goal setting will help you get to where you really would like to be.
You first need to reflect a bit about yourself and what you want. In one of my manager training sessions I point out that the world's best managers treat each of their assignees as a unique individual. That is because each person indeed is different. To better understand this, and to better prepare yourself to set your own goals, you should find out more about yourself. You can take a free self-assessment by clicking here.
Given what you have now learned, you next should reflect upon what may be possible for you. As a quick start I recommend you read Patricia Fripp's Get What You Want! Patricia draws upon her own successes to give you no-nonsense, practical guidelines for defining and achieving your own success.
You can follow this up with master classic goal setting guidelines from Zig Ziglar in his Goals: Setting and Achieving Them. In this book he presents a dynamic seven-step formula for clearly defining your immediate and long term goals -- and then realizing them. His step by step program is filled with inspiring stories from sports, business and science.
You also can supplement the above with Zig Ziglar's Success and the Self-Image audio tapes which cover how to overcome a negative self-image -- your major hurdle in opening yourself to setting goals that will go well beyond your present expectations.
Finally, for those who might be interested in the latest scientific thinking about achieving goals, nuclear physicist Phil Gosling in his book Success Engineering builds a compelling argument that the traditional approaches are dead wrong. Over a 14 year period he has documented proven formula for achieving what you want for yourself. Click here to find out more about Phil's book.
I wish I had had Phil's book several years ago.
In 1997 I looked at various alternative future business opportunities for myself. They ranged from starting my own business (lots of risk), buying (including franchising) someone else’s business, or becoming a consultant (often used to find another job).Ultimately I chose the franchise route. I knew that would mean learning (and strictly following) someone else’s established business process. Over time I came to realize that monetary success was not as important to me as the freedom to implement my own ideas – and see them grow into some “new” reality. That had been the common ingredient of all my past successes. Had I realized that then, I would have arrived at where I am today several years sooner.
The key is to see yourself as successful. Take a thorough look at the
elements of your past successes and "see" them in the person you are as that
success. The more elements that are
present the greater will be your potential for success. 'I've
provided you with a “Take the Right First
Step” self-paced exercise (download instructions below). It will walk you through this
process. *
Regards,
Richard
Dowell
President, Best Managers on the Net,
home of My Journal© (a web-based tool designed to
help you develop and track progress toward your goals).
We are a business
consulting, training and development company dedicated to
helping good managers and their companies prosper by
reaching for the top.
PS: You may access an online Self-Development session which reinforces my lesson by selecting the demo of our DIAPLAN program here.
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This will unzip a folder called "Goal Setting" on
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two files....
1) Read Me First.txt
Please do read this file first -- it will get you started!
2) Goal-Setting.pdf
This is it! The lesson in narrated slide format!
**After
you have downloaded, all you need to do is double-click on the downloaded file.
In the window that pops up, click upon the "Extract" button.
This will unzip the free trial, right onto your desktop (if you do not change
the default location).
NOTE: You need Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 (or greater) to read these files.
The latest version (5.0) is FREE. If you do not have Acrobat Reader, first
download the Lesson (above). Then download
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