5 Tips for Goal Setting

5 Tips for setting Goals

If you were to go to any book store and go to the self-help section and randomly picked up ten books on improving your life, eight of these books would have something to say about goals. Why is this? The reason is that setting goals work. I teach school and have summers off. I discovered many years ago that if my family doesn’t write down our goals or what we want to do in the summer then we can easily waste a summer and not have as fulfilling of a summer. What our habit has become is that we sit down at the beginning of the summer and write down what each person wants to do. We then put this list on the fridge and look at the list often. So here are five tips to help with your goals.

1. Write down your goals on paper and look at them every day. In fact I could just stop here but people don’t like a list this short.

2. Create a goal book and add pictures and quotes for each of your goals. This involves all of your senses and can be really motivating.

3. Write down your top two goals on a business card and place this in your purse and wallet so you can look at the goal often during the day.

4. Once a month take some time and review your goals and see what victories you have and celebrate these victories.

5. If you really want to accomplish a goal be willing to take massive action to obtain this goal. This involves a real gut check on your part as you ask yourself “What am I willing to do? “ Let me give you an example of massive action. Nathan Jenkins was an above average division II runner. He had a goal to become a world class marathoner. He was willing to work hard for this goal. I know this because he had a blog for years that he documented his running mileage. He averaged over a hundred miles a week for several years in a row. He was able to get his marathon time down to 2:14 and was 7^th place at an Olympic trials race. He took massive action to go from a 2:30 marathoner to a 2:14 marathoner. This massive action can be applied to any area of ones life. Here is an article that would be an example of massive action. The article outlines how a couple paid off their mortgage in five years instead of thirty.
We're paying off our mortgage in five yearshttp://homes.yahoo.com/news/paid-off-mortgage-less-5-years-230600500.html