Out of all the personal goal setting methods I've reviewed, I like the simplicity, power, and flow of the model created by Brian Tracy. I present it here in all it's stark detail.
Brian Tracy is an internationally-known self-help author, a very popular speaker, and a self-made millionaire.
In this short and insightful video, he talks about how to achieve goals faster and easier than ever before following 7 simple, actionable steps.
Follow The 7 Steps For Personal Goal Setting
Ready to dive into creating the life of your dreams?
Don't underestimate the simplicity of this process...because it has the power to change your life.
Get out a pen and notebook, write them down, and begin to design the life of your dreams.
Step 1
Decide exactly what you want.
Step 2
Write it down.
Step 3
Set a deadline.
Step 4
Make a list.
Step 5
Organize the list by sequence and by priority.
Step 6
Take action.
Step 7
Do something everyday.
How To Start Personal Goal Setting
Make a list of 10 goals, then choose one as your major definite purpose.
Apply the following 7 personal goal setting steps to it.
In addition:
Review your goals regularly.
Adjust your plans as you learn how to do things better.
Divide your goals into long, medium, and short range.
Start with achievable goals to build your confidence, then reach for more challenging goals.
Commit to your goals, work hard, and encourage yourself by thinking of how great you'll feel when you realize them.
Use Personal Goal Setting To Discover Yourself To Be A Greater Person
Personal goal setting is about designing a life on purpose.
When you design a life on purpose, you’ll step out of an accidental life into an intentional one. By creating your perfect picture, breaking it down into goals, and fashioning the goals into plans, you’ll move forward with enthusiasm. Essential to this process is aligning your goals with work that you love to do.
Of course, as you move to fulfilling your dream you’ll encounter challenges, unknowns, and perplexities, but behind every challenge successfully met you’ll find unforeseen opportunities and priceless benefits. Challenges help refine your unique gifts to life.
When you ask openly from life, you’ll receive unconditionally, even when your desire appears impossible. You will get what you want simply because you had the courage to ask for it. You will get it despite the way things look when you first start out. Unexpected breaks will show up just when you need them the most.
Although opportunities always surround you, you can only see them when you’re ready. Opportunities only show up when you’re looking for them. Personal goal setting asks that you open your mind to see what you failed to notice before.
Often enough after personal goal setting the way to achieving success may not be clear. However, if you can envision your outcome, the clear picture in your mind’s eye will pull you past apparent obstacles. This image will pull you past your fears, past your hesitations, and past your despair. It will help you discover the best resources and show you the most favorable techniques to fulfill your dreams.
Temporary defeat will not dissuade you if your desire is strong enough.
In personal goal settings, be prepared to meet obstacles with creative thinking. Often what may seem final is just a limited perception. Another way can be found if you are determined to succeed. Most things are seldom either-or and usually offer plural solutions.
Keep focusing on the fullness of your dream and keep remembering your strengths. Persist in bringing your unique gifts to life. Insist on honing your skills. The more you stay true to your dream, the more you’ll be loyal to yourself; and the longer you stay in the game, the more you’ll notice you have everything you need to create the life of your dreams.
The only thing that can keep you from your dreams is your doubts and your fears. While these may appear to originate from what you see before you, they actually arise from your conditioned mind.
Stepping out of your comfort zone, breaking free of your inner homeostasis and doing what you have never done before is enough to trigger an alarm from your subconscious mind. These feelings can be quite intense, but you must override them through the strength of your intention.
When your vision on the inside becomes stronger than your observation on the outside, then you will have mastered your life.
When you keep focusing on what is working, when you keep focusing on the fullness of your dream, and when you keep focusing on how you can do it, then you will keep discovering all the inner and outer resources you need to make things happen.
Unsuccessful people give up too soon because they don’t believe in the evidence of things not seen. Instead, they believe in the finality of problems.
Successful people, on the other hand, focus on solutions. They focus on their inner fullness. They focus on their strengths. And they focus on their dreams. They know the things that they love in life and they move steadily toward them.
In his book, As You Think, James Allen affirmed that you will be what you want to be because… “The human will that force unseen, the offspring of a deathless soul, can hew its way to any goal, though walls of granite intervene.”
You can find the key to any situation. You can make yourself what you will to be through personal goal setting. You contain within yourself the power to transform and regenerate.
You are a person of power and intelligence when you live and work in harmony with your purpose. As you do the inner work, the outer work unfolds. Allow your vision to easily and effortlessly take you to the fulfillment of your dreams.
When you get your vision and feeling aligned, what needs to happen on the outside will fall right into place.
There is a reason you have your dream. It is not a whimsy. It is a cry from your soul for self-actualization. Within every seed of desire you’ll find the means for its fulfillment.
Your dream is not really the important thing; after all, everything is transitory and all glory turns to dust. What is important is who you become as you pursue your dream.
Every success in your life will linger on in your soul consciousness.
You must understand through the lived experience that you have the power to live the life you dream of living.
You must understand through the lived experience that you have the power to be the person you imagine yourself to be.
You must understand through the lived experience that your real, eternal reward is the peace and the power that comes from knowing that you have moved through your days with grace, ease, and lightness.
I’ll close with the unforgettable words of Patanjali, who wrote the Yoga Sutras around 250 B.C.
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties, and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”
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