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Blueprint for Success: Defining Your Goals
Nishanth Reddy
Goal means what you
aim to reach in the future. In your life establishing goals has a
positive impact. A goal is a specific, assessable result that you want
to generate at a determinable time in the future. But if what you hope
to achieve in life is based on your expectations, rather than on working
to reach established goals. Your goals are the stepping-stones toward
the understanding of your dreams, the second key element in the
blueprint of your life.
Goals are experiences you have not yet had, places you have not yet
been, people you have not met, a level of income you have not achieved,
a type of relationship you are not now enjoying, or having something you
don't currently own. Like your dreams, there is no limit to the number
of goals you can set other than the limits of your imagination. And
although
Goals represent what you intend to achieve in the future, they are
always set and worked on in the present.
In university business school graduates who had been out of school for
ten years was conducted to determine how they were succeeding toward
their goals. Amazingly, 83 percent of the graduates had set no goals at
all. This 83 percent reported that they were working hard and staying
busy but had no specific future plans. Another 14 percent had goals, but
their goals were mental, not written. However, this 14 percent was
earning on the average three times the income of those who had no goals
at all. Only 3 percent of the entire graduate group had written goals.
That 3 percent was earning a whopping ten times what those with no goals
were earning.
Particularly goals are written very clearly. Written goals made a
dramatic difference in their income levels. Make the difference in your
goal is specific level of achievement. Among the business school
graduates in the study, the short time they spent establishing.
Clear establish a goal has a positive impact on your life. But if what
you hope to achieve in life is based on your expectations, rather than
on working to reach established goals, you are setting yourself up for
the possibility of disappointment. Expectations have to do with how you
believe other people should behave, and how the world should bend at
your command.
Your expectations may result in a large amount of grief, whereas
established goals will result in a large amount of satisfaction and
success. When develop your goal is clear than the winning choice is
clear, drop your expectations. It is a mistake to expect that you will
accomplish any goal because you deserve it or because there is something
in your past that entitles you to it. Unfortunately, there is no such
thing as "deserve." You end up achieving in life because of planning and
control, not because you have "paid your dues".
3 Steps to Developing Passion & Taking Action
Passion for anything occurs at the moment you get a glimpse of the
potential for the project, yourself, your mission, and so on. How do you
develop passion? The following steps take a look at how you develop
passion:
1. Take steps toward your goals. As your plans unfold, each step that
you take toward your goals has a direct bearing on your excitement,
enthusiasm, and confidence. As you enjoy little successes, your
imagination explodes, and passion enters the picture. And when passion
is full-blown, it's unlikely that you will abandon your objectives.
2. Use your head to direct the passion that develops. Effective passion
is a directed emotion that synergizes all your qualities to make a total
you that is considerably greater than the sum of all those qualities.
Some identify passion as "heart," because people with passion accomplish
things that go beyond their physical and mental abilities.
3. Analyze what you want in life and come up with a plan for reaching
those goals. Though passion can be brought on almost instantly by a
life-changing event, it usually begins with a careful analysis of what
you want in life. What is your direction? In short, what are your goals?
After you clearly identify your goals, you develop a plan of action to
reach those goals.
Article Source:
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Nishanth Reddy is an author and publisher of popular self help blog.
Visit his blog for more information on Success, happiness, goal setting,
Self help, self-improvement and personal growth.
www.selfhelpzone.com
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