Three Steps That Can Help You in Goal Setting

We are coming to the close of another year and the start of a new one. This isn't a tale about New Year's resolutions, but it's a story about something awfully similar - goal setting. Getting your goals and objectives in order is crucial. I know the New Year brings about all sorts of resolutions, or goal setting, but everybody has a tricky time staying with it to completion. I want to help in the setting of your goals, so you have the highest chance of hitting your target.

Here are three steps you can take to get you moving in the correct direction.

1. Create a list

I am a list maker. I have lists all around the place. A list for what I need to do the day after, or what I want to attain in the week. Lists are good.

They give me a short view and the long view of what it is I need to do. My lists help me to see what my goals are. You have to start with a view of exactly what you wish to do. Write everything down that you need to do. Do not be concerned how far fetched an idea it is, write it down. Next is divide your list into two parts. The short view, what you need to do in the next two months, and the long view everything that you need to achieve in the subsequent year. Some say not to look to far down the road, but I believe that you have to have long term goals as well.

2. How Are You Going To Get There?

When I talk with my grand-children, and they let me know what they want to be when they grow up, they are going to tell me all kinds' fantastic things they want to be, but if you asked them how are they going to get there, they look at you that strange look. They're young and don't have an idea on the best way to get to the accomplishment of their dreams. Many adults in the network marketing arena are precisely the same way.

I was in that same crowd. You've got to develop an action plan that's going to get you from point A to B. If I want to enroll one individual a week into my primary business, the numbers say that I should talk with 60 folks a month, that is 15 people a week, and that is 3 people a day. To sign up one individual a week, is 4 a month, and that is forty eight a year. That would sure be nice. I have set a goal, both long-term and short term, and I've developed a plan on what I must do to get me where I want to be.

3. Get Started

This is maybe the toughest part, at least it is for me. My wife knows me very well. She's been bugging me to paint the garage door all summer long. She knows that after I start the job, I'm going to finish and it's going to look good. It is simply getting me going, that is the hard part. Like the Rolling Stones song claims, "If you start me up, I can never stop." That is me.

She starts by getting the paint out and starting the work herself. I come out and see her doing it all wrong. Now I am getting concerned, and she slowly steps back and out of the picture, leaving me to finish the task. She knows it just takes getting me going.

I don't care how well you've planned and put together this phenomenal system, if you do not get it put into action, you might just as well just sit down in front of that Television all day, because that is how much you may do.

Get off your duff and get moving. Just start. You don't need to be perfect, but after you get rolling, you'll get better with more practice.

One last thought, goals are designed to be a measure of where you are and, what you need to do to change, to get to where you would like to be. So if you do not hit your goal square in the target, that's OK. Make the adjustment and fire at it again. The only time you may ever miss your target, is when you quite shooting.