Goals are your dreams, aspirations, wants and wishes. With each goal you achieve you increase your sense of self worth and therefore your confidence and self esteem. Goals are your key to moving yourself to a better life, to being happier and to giving yourself a huge boost.
The trick is to set goals that are right for you and to make them as easy as possible to achieve. With each goal you don’t achieve you make a dent in your confidence and your self esteem. If you have a history of unsuccessful goals you will be less likely to even try.
Treat your goals and dreams with the care and respect they deserve by giving yourself the maximum chance of achieving them.
Here are my top tips for choosing the goals that are right for you and for ensuring that you achieve them.
Choose your own goals for the right reasons
Jim tells me he wants to change his career and find a better job.
Jim is getting married next year. His future wife, Sarah, would like to have a house on the same estate as her sister. In a few years time she would like to be a stay at home mum. They have talked about it and they have decided that Jim needs to change career.
When Jim and I talk about the situation it becomes clear that he wants to make Sarah happy. However he doesn’t really want to change career. His real dream is to be promoted because he really loves what he does.
If Jim is going to be true to himself and happy in the future he and Sarah need to find another way to satisfy Sarah’s dream of the big house.
Have a clear vision of what your goal will give you
When you want to turn a dream into reality it is important that you can visualize what success will look like as that vision acts like a catalyst and propels you towards your goal. There is a lot of power in that.
Jen tells me that her goal is to lose weight. She wants to lose 28 pounds. She is a good looking woman and she does not appear to be overweight. [click to continue…]
