Goal Setting – It’s all About Getting There!

As we begin the year with hope, promise and a handful of resolutions, we may find ourselves’ sidelined before we even get started because we simply do not have a plan.

In any personal or professional enrichment endeavor, it is often the task of defining goals that can become the most elusive. We can easily contemplate where we want to be and what we want to do in the next year or two, but find much challenge in establishing what needs to be done to get there.

To successfully define those activities and actions that will get us where we want to be, we must first simply envision. Envisioning is not only a pleasurable escape, but can also become very liberating. Sometimes the best way to begin setting goals is to think about them as reality. Instead of “listing” those things that we think we should be doing/completing/achieving, envision those things as if they had already occurred. Envisioning is a powerful tool. We actually do it more often than we are conscious of. The problem is that we often just leave it at that. We need to take the next step – establishing concrete objectives to get us to that place we want and deserve to be.

Goal setting is essentially determining where you want to go and the steps needed to get there. It is both methodical and purposeful, but more importantly, goal setting should be fun.

When we think about setting goals, many of us look to the larger end result rather than the small steps needed to achieve the desired outcome. These small steps are critical to our long-term success and many times become wonderful achievements in and of themselves.

Admittedly, determining what steps are needed is often the most difficult task. But, if we follow the advice of the great Mark Twain we can be instantly on our way.

"The secret of getting started is breaking your complex, overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one." – Mark Twain

─ by Alison Sfreddo, The Training Connection

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