7 Tips To Achieve Success

Do you create goals that suit you?

Each week, I meet countless people who do not succeed in their lives and / or in their business. Many have no goals at all which ruins their lives. But for those who have set goals, make many mistakes to set goals that do not suit them in order achieve success.

Imagine that you have not set any goals at all. You think that things are going along as they should. This certainly applies to 95 percent of the private population, and without pressure from companies, managers and customers, most would not have any goals at work, either.

Imagine the Detroit Red Wings hockey team with no goals, sliding randomly on the ice, without knowing what was going on. The Red Wings would never have won the Stanley Cup with that attitude.

But for some reason so many of us think that our jobs and life will somehow work themselves out without clearly set goals. It is not the same balance and success, and we both know, deep down inside, though we do not want to admit it to ourselves and others.

Most go routinely through life until old age, when many get a wake-up call, realizing they never really took hold of their lives. Unfortunately, often we forget that life is not a trial race, rather it has to do with getting the most out of it with the little time we have on earth.

If you want to set goals, you need to understand that you and / or your employees may have different views on what the goal is. Below I show three categories that most of us belong to:

a. Those who need to set sky-high goals to be challenged
b. Those who set goals that they know they can achieve
c. Those who need to set goals that they always achieve

Find out which group you and / or your employees belong to, and set goals that corresponds to what that team needs as a challenge. A person who needs to set low goals and always achieve them, destroys himself if he sets too high goals, while one who loves challenges also needs to really feel that they achieve what others view as impossible.

As usual, the goal needs to include clear guidelines:

1. Set up fixed-term goals
2. Find out which of the above three categories you belong to (a, b or c)
3. Set a goal that corresponds to what you need to challenge (see question 2)
4. Write down the objective in the present tense, as if you have already achieved the goal
5. Create a plan of action
6. Perform Action
7. Follow up and correct until you achieved the goal


Regardless of whether you are setting goals or not, you are going somewhere. By setting goals, you can affect your trip and achieve what you want, instead of running around in circles, not knowing where you are going.

Good Luck!

Hans Thorn, Success Coach

http://www.personalcoachingonline.com

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