Set Specific GoalsIf 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. Like Having a million rupees in the bank is only proof of success if one of your goals is to being rich.If your goal is to practice acts of charity, then keeping the money for yourself is suddenly contrary to how you would define success.
Most people don’t know what they want to do with their goals,and even after thinking hard,they don’t come up with anything they really want to do in life.This is one of the main reasons that in spite of so many resources available on success,motivation,goal setting, most people just live an average life.Let’s look at an example – Say your goals are- you want to earn a lot of Money.You want to buy a car.you want to lose weight and look great you wanna run a marathon. All these goals are great,and I am sure many of you out there have these goals in mind.These are super common goals.But still, I could say around 90% people are unsuccessful in achieving these very simple goals.Have you wondered why only 10% are able to Achieve these simple goals,what is that, they do differently,that they reach these goals or achieve them faster. It’s simple – they are specific. Now, what do I mean by – being specific, Say you want to achieve or earn a A LOT OF MONEY, what is a lot of money? How much money? You are not specific about it, is it 1000, 10000$ 1 lac $ or 1M $, how much Be specific.
You want to buy a car, which car,a hatchback,a sedan or a luxury brand.Which one,again you need to be specific about it. You want to lose that extra weight and run a marathon, but how much 10, 20 or 30, how many kilos. Unless and until you are specific you wouldn’t be able to set a target. The moment you are specific, you would start visualizing things better. I want to earn a million dollars, I want to buy a BMW 5 series car, or I want to lose 30 kgs. Now, these are specific goals. Or productive goals or quality goals. The moment you are specific with the picture of what you wanna achieve, the picture is gonna be pretty clear in front of you and you start asking yourself how, how should I achieve this? So be specific with your goals, otherwise you are just shooting a bullet in the air meaninglessly and without specific direction.
Set Goals that motivate every single day
When you set specific goals for yourself, it is also important that they motivate you. this means making sure that they are important to you,they are close to you and there is value in achieving them.When you set your goals,ask yourself a question, Why do you want something in the first place? Imagine If you have very little interest in the result of your goals,or if they are not so relevant to you then the chances of you taking the real effort in achieving them are less and very very slim. Also you need to set realistic goals, goals that you could achieve,goals that are within your limits and reach.known as WALLET SIZE GOAL SETTING. If you set unrealistic goals,that are out of your limits,you would be certainly demotivated on the path of achieving them and your motivation is certain to die and you are sure to leave them half-way.let’s look at an example. If you want to earn a lot of money. Say, You set your goal to make a million rupees a year, and presently you are earning around 100,000 rupees, now that’s a quite an over ambitious goal.You need to introspect on your skillsets,whether with your current skillset you could really reach your goal of ACHIEVING THAT amazing figure of 1 million rupees. If you don’t possess the required skills or don’t have the required resources to achieve that Million dollar goal, you are certain to lose motivation mid way.So make sure you set goals which are within your reach. In short,Set a goal that makes you want to jump out of the bed every single morning
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
