Secrets to Goals Success

One of the biggest secrets to achieving your goals is so simple it's almost laughable: write them down!

All highly successful people have certain common characteristics. The ability to set measurable goals and act on them is at the top of the list. The ability to organize yourself is not imprinted in your DNA; the skills and qualities common among successful people are learned behaviors based on experience and results. In other words, you can learn those skills.

Writing down your goals is truly the path to greatness. Billionaires have been able to attain such heights of wealth because they were committed to setting goals, placing them in writing, and working towards those goals every day, every week, and every month.

If you want to live a truly successful life, you need to choose four primary life goals to work on this year. Your goals will fall into one of these categories:

• Wealth
• Health
• Personal Self (your intellectual and artistic pursuits)
• Social Self (how you relate to your friends, family and community)

Once you have defined your goals for the year – and written them down – it's time to take action. Clarify why you have chosen these top four life goals and give yourself a reasonable timeframe to achieve them. Then, break each goal into smaller "chunks" — yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily objectives.

Finally, you should list your daily goals. These are specific actions you can take each day that will help you achieve your weekly, monthly, and yearly objectives. For example, you can determine just how many sales calls you need to make each day to reach your weekly sales goal of N1,000,000.

If you want to be even more specific, you can break your daily goals down into hourly goals, so that you have a targeted action you can take each hour. This goal-setting system works because it takes very large, sometimes very nebulous, ambitions and breaks them down into specific tasks – things you have to learn, things you have to know, and things you have to do.

Transforming your dreams into tasks may take away some of the romance, but what you'll receive is a growing excitement about how increasingly likely it is that you will accomplish your dreams. Not to mention the satisfaction of taking measurable, constant steps toward reaching those goals.

When working on your goals (hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly) stay focused! Being able to focus your energy and compartmentalize your tasks is vital to accomplishing one goal at a time. Always be aware of your long term goal, but make sure that you focus on the task at hand, and finish each item on your "to do" list.

Here's how you can begin today:

• Write down four (4) goals that you have clearly defined
• Break those goals into manageable yearly, monthly, weekly, and daily "chunks"
• Make an emotional commitment to taking regular action toward achieving your goals
• Monitor your goals regularly for progress (daily, weekly, and monthly)

Making a master plan work is about simplifying your interests and acting upon them in a very simple way. When you receive the emotional gratification of taking one forward step toward one cherished goal, you'll find it that much easier to take the next step.

I am looking forward to hearing your testimonies. Do you find this post useful? Have you implemented any similar method before? How did it work for you? Please leave a comment below.

About Olakitan Wellington

I am a Social Media Marketing Strategist and Facebook Marketing Expert, a business coach, seminar resource person, published and serial entrepreneur. I help businesses to get extraordinary results from their marketing campaign thus ensuring steady increase in their incomes.