How to set goals correctly to achieve results quickly

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Of course, everyone dreams of being a purposeful and successful person. It has literally become a trend in the social world. The Internet is full of advertisements for various webinars and personal growth trainings. People often appear on social networks advocating to get off the couch and start doing something. This even began to manifest itself in music.

Life is quite fleeting, so you need to decide what you want in life as soon as possible in order to start achieving it. Based on this, many people appear who want to get rich from this, developing various methods and courses in order to quickly and successfully achieve their goals. However, no method can work 100%, so you should not trust such people. Moreover, there are free ways to achieve goals.

Where to begin

In order to choose a direction, following which will lead to new achievements , you should understand the following rules:

It is necessary to set only valid goals for yourself. Things that are not achievable in principle will only take up time and energy. Instead, you could spend yourself gaining material possessions. For some ideas, you can stop at conceptualizing or experiencing;
In their own desire to achieve what they want, people do not realize that they are going the wrong way and are wasting their energy on fulfilling other people’s desires. This can happen when a person tries to become a media personality or a famous scientist. In fact, this is an incorrectly set goal, since the result is focused on rising in the eyes of parents, acquaintances or social environment;
Do not forget that happiness is a moment that is not experienced very often in life . In overestimating one's own potential, the end result itself may not bring as much joy and euphoria as it seems at first glance.

Knowing how to quickly achieve his goals, a person begins to think through every step , in search of a reasonable and rational solution. The ability to achieve the desired result often comes with age. In practice, there is a category of people who spend 1-2 months searching for a solution.

Achievements of goals

Many people have already learned that in order to achieve a goal, especially a long-term one, it is not enough to simply make a promise to yourself and decide to work with your teeth gritted. In the process, laziness and a lot of excuses will certainly appear, and old thoughts and beliefs will return. As a result, the case will remain idle for weeks. What to do? You need to change radically and adhere to a step-by-step system for achieving goals, which we will talk about today.

Of course, there are people who know how to achieve everything they want. And they are very surprised that others cannot do this. They even write books about how simple it is. But most of these authors forget that a person is a very complex matter, that he is influenced by hundreds of different factors. You need to work very seriously with your psyche and thinking; just the desire to achieve a goal is not enough. At least because it can disappear the very next day.

Therefore, we will not just present a step-by-step plan for achieving goals, but we will also try to approach the issue comprehensively, understanding that a person always very passionately wants to return to a past state. Change is very difficult. Therefore, you need to study yourself carefully and adhere to some rules.

Let's start with excuses that almost all of us have achieved perfection in.

What excuses do we make for ourselves?

Goals, especially long-term goals, make us feel very bad. For various reasons: we haven’t felt progress for a long time, the path seems endless, and much more.

Therefore, we very often come up with excuses. It's our way of explaining to ourselves why we don't grab every chance to succeed in life. Here are the most popular ones.

I'm not educated enough.
I do not have enough money.
I have no time.
I'm not confident enough in myself.
I just don't have enough experience.
I'm not ready yet.
I don't know where to start.
It's too complicated.
I'm afraid to make a mistake.
I'm afraid.
It's too risky.

All these excuses keep us in one place for a long time. Therefore, before you learn to set goals, you must work with yourself and clearly decide that you will no longer accept apologies.

Every time you catch yourself thinking such thoughts, immediately mark them as excuses. You can sit down right away and write about it in your diary. Awareness is extremely important in our business.

Excuses are also generated by laziness, so we will consider it separately.

How to deal with laziness?

Anyone who indulges in laziness loses huge amounts of money, time, prospects and opportunities. Perhaps this is the key difference between a successful person and a failure. Great people are not afraid to work, and they do it smartly, while average people look for excuses and stop thinking as soon as they leave the office.

To get rid of laziness, you need to take four important steps:

Determine why laziness occurs

Think about all the possible reasons why you fall into the trap of laziness and ask yourself:

Why do I indulge my laziness?
Am I bored, tired, lacking inspiration?
Am I afraid of achieving something so I use laziness as an avoidance mechanism?
What exactly am I afraid of and trying to avoid?

Study long-term effects

We often indulge our laziness because we don’t cause ourselves enough pain. It turns out that it is better not to achieve a goal than to achieve it.

Therefore, you must convince yourself that if you are lazy, it will lead to great pain in the future. Make a list of all long-term consequences.

Challenge yourself

When you challenge yourself, you feel alive. Ask yourself the question: “Am I really weak?”

Remind yourself every day that only by setting a serious goal can you build character and become a truly strong person.

Take action immediately

It is dangerous to engage in self-reflection without action for a long time. There is a risk of staying in oneself for a long time, becoming isolated: then the study of personality will only cause harm.

Study and get to know yourself, but in the process of achieving goals. Take small steps, develop your individuality and learn along the way.

Step-by-step system for achieving goals

The process of achieving goals must be divided into several successive steps, that is, a system must be created.

Step One: Create Your System

To do this, go through five mandatory steps.

Be clear about what you want

The goal you set is limited solely by your imagination. Therefore, you need to allocate enough time for this stage, without getting off with the banal: “I already know what I want, what’s next?”

Goals can be different: career, family, financial, as well as in the field of health, self-development, and public service.

In this case, the goal itself, in fact, does not matter. It is only a product of your true desires. Answer three questions:

What exactly do I want?
Why do I want this?
When do I want it?

These questions will help you not to concentrate on the goal, but to look, first of all, inside yourself. It may turn out that many desires were unreal and did not reflect the real state of things in your soul.

People don't achieve their goals because they don't answer these questions. And they are very important because they allow you to gain motivation for every day. For example, today you desperately wanted to learn how to play chess. This desire is sincere. But in a few days it will disappear and time will be lost. Better ask yourself why this is needed.

And of course, set deadlines. Without this, you won't create a sense of urgency within. Without a deadline, you will not push yourself, you will become lazy and eventually give up on your goal.

Decide if the goal matches your personality

To understand what kind of person you are, you need to understand what it consists of: values, standards, beliefs, lifestyle and priorities.

We know that this sounds quite depressing. But don't skip to the next section, because this one is also incredibly important. Many people simply do not pay attention to what kind of individuals they are. They set wonderful goals for themselves and even begin to achieve them, but in the end they abandon them. These goals simply did not correspond to the core features of their personality.

In psychology there is a concept of congruence. This is the consistency of speech, ideas and beliefs with each other. In a broad sense - integrity, self-consistency of the individual.

You've probably had times when you did everything right and still felt miserable. Have you ever wondered why? The psyche senses a discrepancy between actions and personality parameters, so it transmits this information through a bad mood and the feeling that you are “out of place.”

Knowing yourself is a long process. But you can start with simple but correct questions:

Is this goal consistent with my core values?
Do I truly believe that I will achieve this goal?
Does this goal fit my lifestyle?
Could there be an internal conflict here?
Perhaps I need to adjust my priorities to make room for this goal?
Does this goal conflict with my other goals?
How can this contradiction be resolved?
When I achieve my goal, will I become the person I am trying to become?

The reality is that if your core values, beliefs and priorities are not in harmony with your goal, then there is little hope for results. But if you set aside a little time and set the right goal, then everything will go like clockwork: you yourself will feel that you are doing everything right.

Consider external consequences

When we set a goal, we think about how it will affect our life, personality and amount of time. But we rarely analyze what will happen to the environment and other people. And this can lead to big problems and conflicts.

Every goal you set has a number of consequences, both good and bad. Ask yourself the following questions:

Who could potentially be affected?
How exactly?

Don't get overconfident and think that you can easily handle conflict in the future or that it's not something worth paying attention to. Such ignorance can be costly. It's best to take steps to minimize the damage. After all, if you decide to go to the gym every day, you will spend less time with your loved ones. It will inevitably affect your life in one way or another. So consider a variety of different scenarios.

Ask yourself the following questions:

What's good about my current situation?
Having achieved this goal, will I be able to preserve all the good things that I have now?

Now you have a lot of time to spend with your children. But if you start working more, it will not be enough. How will this affect the family? You don't have to give up on your dreams, but it is important to understand that there will inevitably be consequences.

Ask yourself:

What sacrifices will I need to make to achieve this goal?
Can I really make these sacrifices?

This is the price of success. To make the right decision, consider the following:

What are the consequences of giving up on this goal?
What's at stake?
What could I miss or lose?
How will I feel?

Now you can see that even though you will spend less time with your family, it will only lead to better things in the end. You can earn more money and provide your children with a good education. As a result of the analysis described, you may also understand that you should choose a completely different goal.

There will be many questions:

What will I get if I achieve this goal?
What will my loved ones get if I achieve this goal?
How will this change me as a person?
How will I feel?

You've probably been hoping for some simple five-step system that you can write down on a piece of paper or learn in 10 minutes. But we suggest that you first learn a lot about yourself, and also learn to predict consequences. With this approach, the chances of achieving your goal will increase significantly.

Sketch your plan

It's time to make a plan to achieve your goals. It will help you understand what obstacles you may encounter. It is also useful to think about the resources that may be needed.

First, let's think about the obstacles. They can take many forms in the form of people, events, circumstances, fears, limited beliefs, lack of experience or knowledge. You can't prepare for everything, but remember that you always choose your reaction. Ask yourself:

What potential obstacles might stand in my way?
How can they hinder my progress?
What should I do to successfully deal with them?

Resources can come in the form of tools, skills, knowledge, connections, and more. It may take a little time to get the information you need.

Every obstacle you encounter is nothing more than a problem that can be overcome with creative thinking, the right resources, and resourcefulness.

To learn how to plan for the future, ask yourself:

What resources do I have?
What resources might I need?
How can I get them?

Remember also that you do not have to have all the skills and knowledge. Other people may come in handy for this. This means you must learn to find useful connections.

Take a piece of paper and start creating a rough outline. Consider all your answers that you have given before.

Make an action plan

Many time management experts debate whether an action plan should be too detailed. The answer is this: try both options.

It’s best to create two plans at once. The first is detailed, and the second is in general terms, which only points in the right direction. In a month you will be able to understand which is better. Or perhaps you will realize that both are good and in harmony with each other.

An action plan is a step-by-step guide on how you are going to achieve your goal. A simple example: you want to join a gym. Moreover, they already made one attempt, but in the end they gave up after two weeks. Action plan:

Earn money for a subscription.
Get an additional job (which you can then quit to free up time).
Buy several books about sports and fitness.
Buy a subscription and sportswear.
Create sports affirmations in order to maintain the level of motivation at the highest level.
Meet like-minded people.
Create a new diet.

Step Two: Use Visualization Techniques

Visualization techniques help you get a solid dose of motivation every day. Each of us has experienced the fact that we wake up and have no desire to achieve our long-term goal. This condition is discouraging.

Sit in a quiet place where no one can disturb you. Start visualizing your goal. Throw yourself into the future and feel that everything worked out. How are you feeling? Who's nearby? What thoughts are in your head?

Now think about the last action you took to achieve this remarkable result. Next, move in the opposite direction: the penultimate action and so on.

“Be” in the present. Now you know how to achieve your goal. Moreover, they mentally survived all the difficulties and coped with them.

Step Three: Create a Morning Schedule

Everything is decided in the morning: once you give yourself some indulgence, in a few hours you will feel laziness of such strength that it will kill all desire and enthusiasm. Create the right mood with some repetitive actions.

Immediately after waking up

No matter how difficult it is, smile immediately. Probably nothing special will happen after this action. And this is normal, because no one promised a magic pill. But a start has been made.

Ask yourself some good questions while you're lying in bed:

What am I proud of?
What am I happy with?
What am I grateful for?
What do I expect from today?
What am I going to do today?

Drink a glass of water. This simple act will help replenish the lack of water that has formed overnight.

20 minutes after waking up

Take up meditation. Set aside at least 5-10 minutes for this. With this exercise you will put your brain in order.

Take a journal and write down your goals for that day. If they are already there, just review them. It will only cost a few seconds, but will get you set up.

Read an inspiring book. It can be about self-development, about achieving goals, about dreams. The point of all this is to get enough motivation. Without it, it will be very unpleasant to get down to business.

Use the Brian Tracy Technique

If everything written above seems too complicated, then try something simple that you can use right now.

Brian Tracy does so much work in goal counseling that you might want to try this technique:

Create a burning desire within yourself.
Believe in yourself.
Write down the goal.
Analyze your starting point.
Determine why you want to succeed in this field.
Set a deadline.
Identify obstacles.
Determine what additional knowledge you may need.
Determine what kind of people you might need.
Make a plan.
Visualize.
Never give up.

Books

If you think that the techniques and tips presented in the article are not enough, there is always the opportunity to read several additional books on this topic. Reading large amounts of information helps the brain get used to (and it will resist) the fact that a change will come very soon. Here's a list of books to get you started. Just don’t forget that the main thing is action.

"Achievements of goals. Step-by-step system" Marilyn Atkinson, Rae T. Choice.
“A whole life. Key skills to achieve your goals" Les Hewitt, Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen.
“This year I…” MJ Ryan.
"Getting Things Done" by David Allen.
"Focus. Achieving Priority Goals" Stephen Covey.
“52 Mondays. How to achieve any goals in a year" Vic Johnson.
“Try it - it will work!” Seth Godin.
The Psychology of Achievement by Heidi Grant Halsvorson.
"The Habit of Achievement" by Bernard Ross.

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Barriers to desires

Applying a scientific approach to how to correctly achieve your goals, psychologists have identified a list of factors that prevent a person from achieving their intended results. These are specific types of obstacles that take time to overcome:

Insufficient level of education

Lack of awareness leads to the failure of your own business, since running a business requires special knowledge and skills. To overcome this problem, you can set yourself up for higher education or enroll in specialized courses. If mastering the chosen direction is impossible due to lack of time or finances, they turn to open sources of information published on the Internet.

This problem becomes easily solved with a comprehensive study of the details of the idea and the development of a concept for implementation.

Fear of failure

This purely psychological phenomenon has haunted a person since childhood. The barrier is that a person is not so much worried about the final result as about the degree of seriousness of the actions performed. In practice, the level of involvement in the process increases as the end of the task . For this reason, on the way to their own dreams, people often give up or slow down greatly.

The temptation to give up will be strong shortly before victory...Chinese wisdom.

It has been proven that the presence of such a psychological barrier extends from childhood. Excessive criticism of a child or constant reproaches form in the minds of the future personality a fear of committing serious and sometimes even ordinary actions. It’s not that such people don’t know how to achieve the goals they set for themselves . They lack the desire to act due to the fear of running into criticism. In the future, this phenomenon will undergo serious adjustment with the help of professional psychologists.

Dispersion of attention

Next on the list of barriers that prevent you from climbing the career ladder or making a woman fall in love with you is unfocused attention. By focusing on dozens of things at once, instead of concentrating on just one, the hero does not achieve his goal.

If you chase two hares, you won’t catch either one...Russian wisdom (from the collections of A.P. Chekhov)

In the course of striving, a person simply burns out. Overcoming the barrier is seen in changing the mood, decomposing one task into five or ten independent processes.

A journey of a thousand leagues begins with one step...French wisdom.

Unfair comparison

Comparison remains an acceptable maneuver in self-assessment, analysis of what is happening and subsequent criticism of wrong actions. In the case when a person who knows how to learn how to achieve his goals immediately begins to try on the results of successful individuals, this can cause, at a minimum, dissonance.

KPI

A system of key performance indicators (KPI) for company employees, which helps measure the performance of their activities in numerical terms.

This is not exactly a method for defining goals, but supplementing a set of goals with a list of measurable indicators for their achievement. But since the acronym is popular and there is a lot of confusion about it, we will add it here for consideration.

For example, you have a goal “Increase user satisfaction of the service by 20%.” A logical question arises: “How will we measure this satisfaction?” This could be a change in the average service quality score obtained in surveys. Or maybe a decrease in the rate of lost customers. Or an increase in the frequency of service consumption. All three can be indicators for a goal. And the choice must be made in the context of each company's or employee's business situation.

KPIs can be formulated and measured at any level of the organizational hierarchy - from the company as a whole (and then these will be the KPIs of the CEO) to the ordinary employee. Organizations distinguish different types of indicators:

financial and non-financial;
quantitative and qualitative;
functional and design;
personal and group.

The KPI system has quite a lot of advantages. It allows you to measure results at all levels of the organization - from people to business processes. At the same time, the numerical expressions of efficiency are as transparent and specific as possible. KPIs serve as a high motivational factor for employees.

Among the disadvantages, they note the correlation of the results of each employee with all his colleagues: if one person does not achieve his indicators, then, for example, the entire department may suffer. In addition, KPI often becomes a filter through which an employee views reality. And if the indicators are poorly balanced with each other, then this one-sided prism will lead to conflicts and inconsistency in the work of different employees or departments. Employees are also noted to be cautious when formulating planned KPI indicators, which most often directly affect the employee’s bonus.

Despite this, the KPI system is one of the most popular and widely used in the world.

How to achieve your goals - ways

Even performing the tasks of others, for example, your employer, is always fraught with difficulties. The same thing happens when a person begins to achieve his own victories, gradually moving towards the level of his intended capabilities.

It is the goal that remains the main guideline, the starting point, relative to which a certain algorithm of actions is built

Setting goals

Forming a goal for yourself is a difficult process to understand and implement. Among the components of the applied concept, it is necessary to use not only the complete layout of the problem, but also to form a visual representation. Once you have a picture, sketch or template of the expected result in your head, the negative influence will be removed and the goal will become more or less real. This technique shows itself well in practice, when a person can escape from illusions, plunge into harsh everyday life, and get closer to those things that are achievable. In this case, voicing a dream in the form of the phrase “I want to earn a million rubles” is nothing more than a clear goal, task or further development of events that is understandable to the hero and those around him.

When studying the concept of how to achieve your real goal , you can and should pay attention to ready-made techniques. Because most of the techniques are based on the practices of successful people and are actively used all over the world. Of course, in this case, you need to understand that there are no ideal and universal recipes for happiness, so you should look for your own path in life and formulate your own plan of action.

About the goals of one's own and others

How to set a goal? How to set a long-term goal, and based on it - short-term ones? Think about why your soul came into this life? Imagine your life as a computer game. But there are different types of games: strategy, business, shooting games, etc. What “computer game” did your soul decide to play? What are the ultimate goals of this “game”? Based on your answers, formulate long-term and short-term goals.

The main goals of life, which a person cannot explain, were not accepted by himself, are of a stereotypical nature (“everyone thinks so”), and were initially laid down by parents. Such goals are: “Get married and have children”, “Educate and find a good job”, “Be rich”, etc. But this does not mean that these goals will bring happiness. Often, these ideas are based on completely different motives: the desire to be proud, to live off children, to organize all people, etc.

Just because you're driven by parental or social goals doesn't mean you'll be happy. Sometimes for people, true happiness comes from fighting with others or causing pain. For others, such people are the determinants of holiness or demonism. That's why many marriages fail, people don't get rich, etc. It doesn't bring them happiness; they strive for this only because it was instilled in them.

The true goals that will bring a person happiness and to which he will strive are those that he has determined for himself. It is worth understanding that not all people are happy in marriage; they are much happier being single. Not all people want to spend time at work; they would rather spend time with their family. It is necessary to understand and accept that society will be happy, as well as its individual members (the people themselves), only when everyone is sincere with themselves, sets appropriate goals and moves towards them.

This is probably why poverty and overpopulation of the Earth are thriving, because everyone is programmed for the same “wealth” and “having children.”

What will happen if you get rid of the thought that your happiness lies in love, family, money, cars, etc.? What if we got rid of such stereotypes? You should start living differently. Self-realization, developing yourself both physically and spiritually, transforming your life so as to live happily, richly and with love (those components that you need, and not the whole society) - this is the task of any person, regardless of gender. You must be able to achieve everything alone, regardless of having a loved one or a prestigious job.

Existing techniques, exercises, techniques

To gain confidence as a strong motivational stimulus, you can use established practices.

Today, such techniques are used under the guidance of experienced psychologists, who select techniques based on personality characteristics and the properties of the final goal.

How to eat a whole elephant

Mastering a large amount of information or the desire to embrace the immensity becomes an impossible task even for professionals in their field. But dividing a task into several stages, stages or elements allows you to focus on the final result through sequential execution of actions or an algorithm that has been proven over the years.

In an attempt to jump over one's head, a person often slows down, which is why indecision and uncertainty appear in one's current activities. But when there is an understanding that the hero will have to participate in a chain of events - components of a single thing, then the picture will form by itself. Behind you will be completed stages that bring you closer to the completion of the ideological plan.

Balanced Scorecard, BSC

The balanced scorecard, or BSC, was developed in the 1990s by Harvard Business School professor Robert Kaplan and American management consultant David Norton. It is intended as a management tool that should help track the achievement of goals within the framework of the organization's strategy and standardize reporting. It was Norton and Kaplan who legitimized the connection between the performance indicator system and the company’s strategic goals and began to talk about the need to balance the indicators with each other.

During planning, a strategic map or tree of goals is created for different areas of the organization. The following areas or areas of activity are taken into consideration: clients, finance, personnel development and internal business processes. Each direction is assigned goals and a set of KPIs.

The advantages of BSC include a balanced view of the organization, visualization, ease of presentation and perception of information, versatility, focus on positive changes, and relationship with employee KPIs. Disadvantages include the complexity of implementation, the lack of quick results, the difficulty of assessing key indicators, and implementation only at the level of top managers.

Movement is life

Stopping on the way to the desired goal is the main enemy of progress. The introduction of regularity in everyday practice ensures the permanent achievement of the main goal. Simply put, small efforts add up to a result that brings you closer to completing the main task. The rule of not making stops is based on the above methods of spontaneous decomposition and eating an elephant. The difference is that the problems are decomposed into minimum, maximum and optimal tasks.

For example, step-by-step instructions for achieving a language learning goal can include the following steps:

Minimum – learn and pronounce 5 phrases;
The best is to master a few rules;
The maximum is to watch the pitch in your chosen language and understand it.

As they say, wishing is not harmful, but not wishing is harmful. Setting clear and achievable goals determines future results. While gradually carrying out the minimum and optimum programs, you should remember about the maximum deal with your conscience. This must be done every day. If for some reason there is a gap, you should plan to increase the load for a future period. If postponing tasks until tomorrow becomes systematic, you should responsibly review your schedule.

Objectives & Key Results (OKR)

The creator of the OKR project management methodology (from the English “goals and key results”) is considered to be Andy Grove, who, as a co-founder and CEO of Intel, invented it in 1968. But the basis of the method was Peter Drucker’s management system by objectives. John Doerr would later implement OKRs at Google. The essence of the method lies in its two-component nature, which combines ambitious goals and key indicators for achieving them. OKR implies a correlation between the goals of the team and each of its players, and makes it possible to effectively control tasks. Also among the advantages:

coordinated team work;
transparency;
prioritization;
high level of employee engagement;
focus on change and improvement;
significant growth and development;
universality - the method is suitable for both small startups and large organizations.

How to set OKR goals correctly

There are several very specific principles according to which Objectives & Key Results are formulated:

goals should be ambitious and difficult to achieve, but at the same time achievable;
goals are set at least three, but no more than five for each department of the company;
goals involve achieving qualitatively new results, rather than maintaining old ones;
goal formulations are as specific as possible. It is recommended to avoid the wording “improve”, “facilitate”, “simplify”, etc.;
the results of the goals should be easily measurable, while for each goal at least three parameters for its achievement are set, each of them requires easy confirmation.
Most often, OKR is not associated with the payment and bonus system, so that the employee does not perceive ambitious goals as a threat to his financial well-being.

Another important point: it is considered that if the goals set according to OKR are achieved by 80% or more, then these were too easy goals. Achieving less than 50% is considered a failure. The optimal parameter is 60–70% completion of goals.

Among the disadvantages of the method, they note the difficulty of achieving ambitious goals, the length of time (since large tasks require quite a lot of time for their implementation) and the stressful component for the team, which will worry about the failure to achieve the result. Despite this, OKRs are used by many well-known corporations: Google, LinkedIn, Intel, Oracle, Twitter and others.

Successful aura

Luck and first results always inspire motivated people. This is true, because it is a positive attitude that motivates you to take even greater steps and reach new heights. Particularly successful people always stand out from the gray mass of people who do not have mobility. And they are not able to make key decisions in their lives. The tactic of meeting successful people helps a lot. Which, during discussions, can lead to new desires. But soon they will become like-minded people.

A successful aura is precisely the environment in which new ideas are born and new skills emerge. This is the place and environment in which the hero becomes comfortable, where he can complete tasks on the way to the intended result. To understand how to achieve your main goals, you must first take care of a successful aura.

Correctly thinking through goals

Learning to write down or sketch out goals is an important step, but you also need to know how to do it correctly:

• You need to formulate all your desires only in a positive form, without using the particle “not”. For example: “I don’t want to experience financial difficulties” - this formulation is incorrect,” the correct one would be “I want 2,000,000 rubles.”

• Avoid using words that denote coercion, such as must, must. They most often have a negative connotation. Instead, you should use affirmative words - I want, I can.

• The formulation of the goal directly determines how it will be implemented.

Acquiring useful skills

Even if something doesn’t work out in life, there is a desire for it, there is a result. On the way to the object of desire, a person invariably acquires new skills. Learns and remembers useful information, masters useful techniques of successful people.

But often such a set begins to supply a person with the most important product - the ability to do something. For example, mastery of negotiation techniques was not useful in finding a job. But it will definitely be needed in sales. Because this is one of the main skills in the field.

You should also remember that any problem can be solved in several ways. But it is quite possible that on the path of trial and error a person will find a shorter path to his own goal. Because you never know where the solution might find you.

What you can learn while achieving your goal:

Fighting uncertainty and fears. Because it is important to achieve any goal;
Overcoming fears of non-existent risks, fear of change. Because internal blocks should not interfere with us;
Rational distribution of time budget, for work and free time. Because our effectiveness depends on it;
Identifying character strengths and applying them in practice. Because without this it is impossible to work one hundred percent;
Determining the benefits gained from mastering new skills and approaches to completing a task.

As soon as the business is considered to have begun, the thinking of the person himself changes. Even if something doesn’t work out the first time, it can work out on the second or third try. You can also apply various methods and techniques to one of the small tasks. But in some situations, you can brainstorm and enter the moderate risk zone. The most important thing is to remain optimistic and believe in achieving results. And be prepared for the changes that will happen in life very soon. Because they will definitely happen.

Why are there no goals?

Goal setting is a kind of art that needs to be learned. There is even a theory of setting goals and objectives outlined by Edwin Lok. There are several reasons why people don’t plan anything or set goals:

No one clearly explained that goals are a vital necessity. They don't teach this in schools and institutes. If parents worked for the state or for an uncle, they were not taught this either. At work, goals are chosen for us by management, but achieving them is beneficial only for them. If a person does not know what goal to set, others will do it for him. And then he will achieve anyone’s goals, but not his own. Of course, no one will force or force. The person does this voluntarily:
- If he does not know where to go to study, then most likely his parents will choose the place of study for him;
If you don’t have your favorite thing, it means you’ll have to develop someone else’s.

The sooner you put on your calling, the sooner you will reach your goal

This list can be continued indefinitely. Therefore, it is necessary to listen to even your most modest desires, turn them into dreams and goals, otherwise there is a risk of realizing that you have not lived your own life, but someone else’s.

Fear and fear of not achieving your goals. Yes, there is a certain risk, but the chances of achieving it are extremely high. Failures should be perceived as invaluable experience. Just as dousing with cold water is a hardening procedure for the body, failure for a person is something valuable and useful. To overcome your fears, there are various ways, for example, read the stories of rich people. Most of them come from poor families. But they had a goal that they were obsessed with, they believed that they would definitely achieve it. You need to believe in yourself; faith is the strongest motivator, allowing you to achieve incredible results and pushing you only forward.
Misunderstanding of others. It often happens that a person has something in mind and tells his friends or acquaintances about it. And what does he hear in response? “You won’t succeed! All this is complete nonsense, you can’t do it and why do you need it?” Such people only interfere; their pessimism can destroy a dream. You should never share your goals with anyone. The only exceptions are those close to you who believe in you.
Excessively low self-esteem. Some people believe that they are unworthy and do not deserve more than they have. You need to fight such thoughts. Everything that is on Earth was created for people, you just need to go and take it. A person becomes who he has defined himself in his mind, and he is capable of achieving anything he wants, he just needs to set a goal and achieve it.
A person does not know the processes of goal setting. You can only learn this art on your own. This is necessary exclusively for you, and no one except your family is interested in your education.

How to achieve your goals - Bottom line

The final result will depend on the goal. Increase your income level, become successful, famous or desired. But in conclusion, it should be noted that you should often focus on solving internal problems, which are mostly related to psychological motivation or working on oneself. Because performing external tasks is associated with a routine that is within the control of every person.

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Why you need to set goals

Goals need to be set in order to realize desires and build your life brick by brick. This seems to be clear to everyone. While you are still a nobody and are at the start, the goal allows you not to sour and hold your tail with a pistol. It is easier to overcome the distance when the cherished finish looms on the horizon and you know where you are running.

However, there are several other functions of goal setting that most people are not even aware of. Let's imagine two hypothetical millionaires. One earned his millions by working hard and improving, while the other inherited them from his parents. Which of them do you think will be more satisfied with life?

At first glance, there shouldn’t be much difference, because both can afford the same high standard of living. But still this is not so. The subjective level of happiness is determined not by external conditions, but by the amount of energy and vitality. And their level depends on special hormones that the brain secretes - serotonin, dopamine and endorphin. You can swim in money and at the same time vegetate in apathy, having no desires, no joy, no taste for life.

External well-being does not equal happiness.

Every person has access to the treasured hormones. The brain generously rewards successful and fruitful activity. This is exactly how the evolutionary mechanism responsible for the development of humanity works.

Roughly speaking, when you do something and receive positive feedback, your energy potential accumulates. You feel a surge of strength, inspiration and desire to conquer the next milestone, which increases with each new victory. Goals help your brain evaluate your progress and reward you for every achievement.