How to Set Goals

Goal-setting itself is a key skill that helps you turn ideas into reality, both at work and at home. It allows you to stop being distracted and focus all your energies on achieving success. Great athletes, businessmen, and inventors always set goals, and they do it right. Why does it work? Setting goals is empowering and motivating in the short and long term. It allows you to focus all your efforts and time on achieving something important.

When the goal is clear and understandable, you can track progress and feel proud of even small successes, which in turn leads to increased confidence and a feeling of happiness. Goal setting consists of three steps. First, an overall picture of planned and important accomplishments is created It is worth considering all aspects of life and developing them in parallel. These are goals for one year, five years, and ten years. Next, the global goals are broken down into smaller goals that can be achieved in the short term. Plan for six months, three months, a month, a week, a day. The future is shaped today. 

Following a plan should become a habit. You need to make a to-do list for the next day, look at the big picture regularly, adjust and train self-discipline. A great way to set goals is the SMART technique. A goal should be specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound.For example, instead of the abstract and passive “Go to Antarctica someday,” “Go to Antarctica by December 31, 2025. To do so would require…”.

It’s important to remember to get your priorities right. To achieve outstanding success in ten years, you have to work at it every day. It must become a habit, do things every day, motivate yourself, have discipline, and keep going no matter what or no one.