Goals

Setting goals is one of the very best ways to help you achieve what you want. To motivate us, goals must have purpose and direction. Sometimes people set goals without thinking about their reasons for wanting to attain them. So to ensure our goals have purpose and direction, we need to also look at our intentions. One way to think about this would be to look at goals as the plans you pencil in each day and intentions as the reason you pull out the pencil in the first place.

So when setting goals we want to set goals that take us in the direction of our intentions. Therefore, we must set specific goals. Take exercise for an example. Rather than just saying you want to look better or feel better, determine what you specifically want to accomplish. Do you want to lose 10 pounds? 20 pounds? Do you want to run a six minute mile? A five minute mile? An eight minute mile? Do you want to bench press 300 pounds? 350 pounds? What is the specific result you want to achieve?

There are many goal-setting resources available. There are books, tape and CD programs, on-line courses, and live seminars that focus on goal setting. Many of them are very similar. It is not so important as to which program of goal setting you follow as it is that you set goals and achieve them.

If you want to make things happen, you must determine what you want to make happen, set that goal, and go for it!