Goal Setting:
A Key Step For Charting A Path To Unlimited Success
Goal setting is the
starting point for charting your path to Destination
Success. Later on in your journey you will understand
that goal setting also is a fundamental building block in the strategic
business planning process.
Because you will have
to put a lot of yourself into earning your future success, you should
want to like yourself and what you are doing when you arrive at your
destination. So, first make sure that your very hard
work will get you where you want to be – and that you will
enjoy yourself along the way. Realistic goal setting will help you
get to where you really would like to be.
You first need to
reflect a bit about yourself and what you want. In one of my
manager training sessions I point out that the world's best managers
treat each of their assignees as a unique individual. That is because
each person indeed is different. To better understand this, and to
better prepare yourself to set your own goals, you should find out more
about yourself. You
can take a free self-assessment by clicking here.
Given what you have now
learned, you next should reflect upon what may be possible for you. As a
quick start I recommend you read Patricia Fripp's Get
What You Want! Patricia draws upon her
own successes to give you no-nonsense, practical guidelines for defining
and achieving your own success.
You can follow this up
with master classic goal setting guidelines from Zig Ziglar in his Goals:
Setting and Achieving Them. In
this book he presents a dynamic seven-step formula for clearly defining
your immediate and long term goals -- and then realizing them. His step
by step program is filled with inspiring stories from sports, business
and science.
Finally, you can
supplement the above with Zig Ziglar's Success
and the Self-Image audio tapes
which cover how to overcome a negative self-image -- your major hurdle
in opening yourself to setting goals that will go well beyond your
present expectations.
Having done this, you
now are ready to focus on the direction you wish to follow.
In 1997 I looked at
various alternative future business opportunities for myself. They
ranged from starting my own business (lots of risk), buying (including
franchising) someone else’s business, or becoming a consultant (often
used to find another job).
Ultimately I chose the
franchise route. I knew that would mean learning (and strictly
following) someone else’s established business process. Over time I
came to realize that monetary success was not as important to me as the
freedom to implement my own ideas – and see them grow into some
“new” reality. That had been the common ingredient of all
my past successes. Had I realized that then, I would have arrived
at where I am today several years sooner.
In you own goal setting
you must assess how the elements of your own past successes will
contribute to your future. The more elements that are present the
greater will be your potential for success. 'I've
provided you with a “Take the Right First Step” self-paced exercise
(download instructions below). It will walk you through this process.
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Regards,
Richard
Dowell
President, Best Managers on the Net www.BestManagers.Net,
home of My Journal© (a web-based tool designed to help you
develop and track progress toward your goals).
We are a business
consulting, training and development company dedicated to helping good
managers and their companies prosper by reaching for the top.
*Click
here to Download your “Take the Right First Step” lesson.
You are about to download a zipped file ("Goal-Setting.zip").
Save it to your desktop. After you have downloaded, unzip it. **
·
Windows
users need CamUnzip -- free softwarel
·
Mac
users need Stuffit Expander (v5.5 or greater) -- free software
This will unzip a folder called "Goal
Setting" on your desktop (if you do not change the default
location). The folder contains two files....
1) Read Me First.txt
Please do read this file first -- it will get you started!
2) Goal-Setting.pdf
This is it! The lesson in narrated slide format!
**After you have downloaded, all you need to do is
double-click on the downloaded file. In the window that pops up, click
upon the "Extract" button. This will unzip the free trial,
right onto your desktop (if you do not change the default location).
NOTE: You need Adobe Acrobat Reader 3.0 (or greater) to read
these files. The latest version (5.0) is FREE. If you do not have
Acrobat Reader, first download the Lesson (above).
Then download
Adobe Acrobat by clicking here.
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