The Rules for Good Goal Setting
Originally posted by Posted on May 13, 2008 in: IQ Matrix Maps, Life Success http://blog.iqmatrix.com/mind-map/smart-goal-setting-mind-map
Happy New Year to all of our readers! Here are some really awesome rules to follow when you’re setting goals that you want to accomplish this year.
1. Write positively: All of your goals MUST be written in a positive manner. This means writing them in a fashion that keeps your mind set on what it is that you want or want to accomplish, not what you want to avoid.
2. Have a personal benefit: Your goals that you set must have a beneficial outcome for you. This means that for every goal you set must help or benefit you in some way with your long term fulfillment and what you want in life. Lots of people fall into the trap of achieving goals that are set for them by other people. This is definitely something to be avoided. If this sounds like you then you have to break the habit or else you will never be able to reach your full potential. Take control and responsibility of your goals and adjust them so that they benefit you.
3. Preserves current life benefits: Another one of these goal setting traps is when people set goals that have no relevance to their interests and what is best for them and their life style. If goals are set in this manner then the goal can almost become un-motivating. If you are setting goals that do not benefit your lifestyle it ends up being a waste of time, you’ll be un-motivated to reach it and will also be unsuccessful in attaining it.
4. Desirable: you have to WANT to achieve the goals you set. Without the desire to reach your goals you will consistently have problems staying motivated. When you set undesirable goals you will simply give in to any obstacle that comes in the way. Lack of motivation is a waste of time that will keep you going around in circles for the rest of your life.
5. Challenging: If you don’t appropriately make your goals challenging you’ll get bored with trying to reach them. You want to your goals to just slightly be out of your reach so that it is physically attainable but keeps you pushing yourself to reach them.
6. In Everyone’s Best Interests: Always keep in mind the moral high ground. Your goals have to always stay consistently in the interest of everyone who surrounds you and will be influenced by its achievement. If your goals don’t support interest and goals of who you are surrounded by then you are guaranteed to face many challenges trying to achieve it and could possibly never reach them.
