Self Improvement Guide

Is It Time To Re-Evaluate Your Goal Setting System?

January 25th, 2010 by aaks

The setting of goals, and then working hard and smart to achieve them, is a significant habit that separates the 5% of people who are in successful in life from the 95% who are not. If you are in that 95% then do not give up, as there is nothing inherently wrong with you, it is just a case of never having been properly educated in goal setting.

It is important to pay attention to the working hard and smart part of goal setting, as simply setting goals is not enough. Plenty of people within the unsuccessful 95% regularly set goals, but then they forget about them, which means that they may as well not have bothered to set them in the first place.

A self-assessment is necessary then: Are you setting goals? Are your working hard? Are you working smart?

Should you have answered ‘no’ to any of those questions, then it is time to change your approach. It is also time to change your approach if you answered ‘yes’ to all of them, but things are still not working out for you, as you must be either setting the wrong type of goals, not be working hard enough, or not be working smart enough.

You should seriously consider adopting the 10 point ‘Mental Management Goal-Setting System’ that was set out in a book (”With Winning In Mind - An Olympic Champion’s Success System”) written by Lanny Bassham, who is a 3 times World Champion &amp Olympic Gold Medalist. An summary of that system is as follows…

1) Know exactly what it is that you want to achieve.

2) Decide when you want it.

3) Establish what you stand to gain from it.

4) Determine the obstacles in your way.

5) Evaluate what achieving it will also take away from you, such as time, money or people.

6) Write an overall action plan.

7) Create a daily routine / timetable based on your overall plan of action.

Start now, not at some specified future date.