Visualising your goals
If you want to succeed, you need to set goals. Without goals you lack focus and direction. Goal setting not only allows you to take control of your life’s direction; it also provides you a benchmark for determining whether you are actually succeeding.
To accomplish your goals, you need to know how to set them. You can’t simply say, “I want” and expect it to happen. Goal setting is a process that starts with careful consideration of what you want to achieve, and ends with a lot of hard work to actually do it. In between there are some very well defined steps that transcend the specifics of each goal. Knowing these steps will allow you to formulate goals that you can accomplish.
You can set a variety of personal goals, and each kind will require different methods of measuring progress. I’ve focused on examples for tracking daily, weekly and monthly progress, but of course you could zoom right out and do an annual review if you have more long-term goals to work towards.
I have had many people tell me over the years that the rate or pace of my work was not fast enough so therefore it was not progress. I let many deter me and make me lose my focus. Whilst others were too busy telling me that I was not making either enough or no progress, I underestimated how much of a negative impact it had on me.
The moment I realized that I can not have such people in my life and that no one has the right to tell me whether my baby steps equates to progress or not.. well was the day I started to channel my energy into achieving my goals.
The point is is as long as you are on the right trajectory you are making progress (even baby steps) and never let anyone tell you otherwise.
