Setting and achieving goals will set you up for a cycle of success and personal satisfaction.
The power in goal setting is that it forces you to think about what is important to you and visualize what your reality would be if you accomplish these goals. Goal setting is motivating in nature and is an integral step in achieving success. By identifying what you want to achieve in life and what your ideal future looks like, you know where to channel your energy and efforts and what distractions you need to eliminate. Goals provide a sense of direction, which allows you to focus on a target so that you can concentrate your aim. Goal setting is fuel for ambition, giving us the inspiration to aim for things that may have previously seemed unattainable.
By setting SMART (Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Timely) goals, you can track your progress and celebrate your achievements along the journey. These celebrations will confirm your efforts and highlight your progress toward realizing the ultimate end results. Having small victories along the way will increase your confidence and reinforce your ability in achieving the goals that you have set. When you consciously set goals for yourself, you naturally have a greater sense of being.
Utilize your “why” to create a big picture of what you desire to accomplish with your life or what you are determined to accomplish by a specific time period. This big picture will provide you with your ultimate large-scale goals. Once identified, divide the large goals into smaller “benchmark” targets that you can drill down and focus on. Create a detailed and time specific action plan to start progressing toward achieving each “benchmark” on your journey to achieving your goals.
Each goal should be set in the affirmative and expressed in a positive, motivational tone. Your goals should be definitive, detailed and specific so that once you have achieved them, you are able to rejoice in your accomplishment. Give each “benchmark” and each goal a priority level, which will allow you to concentrate your attention and reduce the feeling of being overwhelmed by attempting to achieve too many goals at one time. Your goals need to be written and reviewed often. Once a goal is written, it increases its feeling of validity, which makes it more impactful.
Setting and achieving goals will set you up for a cycle of success and personal satisfaction. Consistently having goals can give you a sense of purpose and the drive needed to persevere each and every day.
Your goals should inherently be your own and not ones set for you by others. For a goal to be effective, it must be meaningful to you and not just something others want you to achieve. No one can want it more than you want it yourself, then and only then will you focus your efforts on achievement and realizing the vision of success.
In closing, set goals to take control of your life and be the success that you were meant to be. Use your goals to empower yourself, expect more from your life and create the life of your dreams, designed by you! QCBN
By Jamaal McCoy, QCBN
Jamaal McCoy is the general manager of Findlay Auto Group Prescott. He can be reached at 928-443-8300 or jmccoy@findlayauto.com.