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7 Powerful Steps to Setting Personal Goals and Achieving Them!

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This section will help you design your life plan.

These steps for setting personal goals will show you how to create goals and achieve them.

Step 1: Set SMART Goals

Set SMART goals. Make sure your goals are:

• Specific
• measurable
• attainable
• realistic
• time-bound

Step 2: Put Your Goals in Writing

In each of the 6 areas below, write down what you want to achieve.

For those who don’t know what they want, here is an easy way to find out what you really want. Imagine you could achieve ANYTHING you want and you cannot fail, what would it be? Write these goals in the following areas:

1. Family and Friends
2. Financial and Wealth lifestyle
3. Spiritual
4. Health and Physical
5. Social/ Contribution
6. Educational and Career

Remember this is the ultimate goal in your life, whether you are planning to achieve it in 10 years time or 20 years time, this is the goal that you really want to achieve.

Are you ready? Spend 20 minutes on this exercise and just write what you really want to achieve! Erase your mind of thinking of any possibilities of failure.

Step 3: Divide Your Goal into Small Parts

Read these numbers 323525998, and remember them. Now close your eyes and say the number out loud. Could you remember it?

Now do it again be breaking it into three parts. It will look like this 323, 525, 998. Can you see that it immediately looks easier to remember? And it is easier to remember. Try remembering the numbers in 3 separate parts and say it out loud again.

By using this technique for your goals, any goal you set will become more doable!

Step 4: Create Milestones

In step 3 you broke your goal into small parts, now write down milestones for your goals.

Here’s an example:

ULTIMATE Goal: Weigh 120lbs in 3 years

• Current situation: weigh 300 lbs
• First year goal: Weigh 220 lbs
• Second year goal: Weigh 160 lbs
• Third Year Goal: Weigh 120 lbs

Step 5: List the Steps Required

Now list down ALL the steps you will take to achieve your ultimate goal.

Step 6: Set Deadlines for Each of Step

In step 5 you listed down the steps on paper. Now set deadlines to these steps.

[Read how to create an action plan for more details on step 5 and step 6]

Step 7: The Secret to Building Momentum to Achieve Your Goals

Start working on the steps you have listed down. Focus on completing each of the steps you set out in detail. Every time you complete each step, tick it off. To keep your momentum going, learn how to overcome procrastination and apply motivation techniques to achieve your goals.

Written by Nate Fovaw

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