Setting Goals

"A goal is a dream with a deadline."

Napoleon Hill

Now is the time to set goals and set deadlines to achieve them! In all areas of life!

Then we will talk about the strategy, which would be the route that Uber takes to get me to my destination. It includes how to avoid traffic jams, which way you choose to get there faster, what landmarks you have, etc.

To set goals, it has helped me to divide them into 7 areas as found in the book The Success Principles by Jack Canfield:

• Work, career and studies

• Finance

• Relationships

• Health

• Fun, hobbies and possessions

• Personal growth and spirituality

• Contribution to others

I recommend having some blank sheets, a pencil or pen, and the notebook that will become your goal diary. The more specific you are, the better.

On one of the sheets, put the title of the area you are going to work on. Imagine that you are writing a letter to Santa Claus, that you are a child again, and that what you can ask for has no limits. Ask what you want. Indulge yourself.

Spend 5 minutes on each area, writing quickly. The more specific you are, the better. When you finish, review your list and next to each goal we will put a deadline to meet it, as follows:

• Write the number 1 next to the goals you hope to achieve in 1 year or less.

• Write the number 3 next to the goals you want to achieve in 3 years or less.

• Write the number 5 next to the goals you want to achieve in 5 years or less.

• Write the number 10 next to the goals you want to achieve in 10 years or less.

• Write the number 20 next to the goals you want to achieve in 20 years or less.

Now, of the goals you want to meet in less than a year, choose 1 or 2 for each area. Choose the ones that excite you the most, the goals for which you would be willing to commit yourself fully. Now write down each one of them in your journal, and write next to it or below it why you want to achieve this goal and why you are fully committed to achieving it.

If you realize, you already have goals for the next 20 years, and above all you have specific goals with which you would be committed to achieve. It is important to periodically read your goals, review them and eventually rethink them.

An interesting exercise that Tony Robbins suggests, is to imagine that you are in the future and think about what would happen in your life if you do not achieve your goals. How do you feel? Then do the same exercise thinking that you have achieved your goals. Now how do you feel? That will add a lot of motivation!

¡Go for it!

You can achieve everything you set your mind to!

In the next Newsletter we will work on the strategy and how to take action, so we will begin to materialize the goals.

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Quote suggested by reader:

“People with goals succeed because they know where they are going”.

Earl Nightingale