The Number One Way to Never Achieve Your Goals

Without a doubt there are effective ways to achieve your goals. There are also plenty of organization tools to help you. Software, special calendars, PDAs and notebooks all proliferate the “get things done” market today.

By all means, use them. But you’ll find they’ll be pretty useless if you don’t know one very essential rule first:

The number one way to never achieve your goals is to not have any

Sorry if the brevity of that stroke of genius disappoints, but it’s nevertheless true. In all the consulting I’ve done, whether as a life-coach or designer or productivity expert, the problem people run into more than any other is lack of defined goals.

One stable rule I use is this:

If you can’t physically write it down, it’s not clear enough.

Set a target, write it down and go for it. And don’t worry about whether or not it is the perfect plan. If it changes, it changes. It’s better to just make the decision and get started than to wallow around wasting time with uncertainty. You can always change your mind. And if your initial idea doesn’t work, you can rule it out as an option and now you’re one step closer.

5 Ways You Can Properly Set Attainable Goals

Attainable Goals The hit me over the head with a frying pan obvious statement of the day is:

If you want to achieve your goals you’ve got to know what they are.

Every self-help guru will tell you that, but what they don’t tell you much about is how to set goals in the first place.

Sure, it’s easy to say “I want a million dollars,” but is that really a goal? It sounds pretty loose to me. It doesn’t define any variables, include any time or give even the slightest hint of how this goal is meant to happen.

There are actually much better ways to set goals than to just write down your hopes and dreams. While that does serve a purpose, what we’re going to focus on are ways to set specific goals that you can act on immediately. With these ideas you will not only clarify what the goal is but save lost time on useless actions.
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