How to choose the right goals to focus on

Choosing the right goals to begin with is vital to your goal setting success. If you're just beginning to build your wealth, for example, deciding to make a million dollars in your first six months might be a challenge beyond what you're ready for. You can certainly work to that, but first it's important to recognize the all important first steps.

You can choose to work any goal that you feel is necessary for your health, stability and happiness. And you should begin by evaluating a goal on those criteria.

Will this goal, if achieved, increase my health? Will it create more stability for me? Will it ultimately provide me with a greater level of happiness?

If the answer to any of these questions is a "no" or even a "maybe", then cross it off your list.

Goal Setting is Personal Planning

Goal setting is nothing more than a formal process for personal planning. By setting goals on a steady basis you decide what you want to achieve, and then move in a step-by-step manner towards the achievement of these goals. While there is a magic inherent in setting goals, their achievement is often a matter of executing steps.

The process of setting goals and targets allows you to choose where you want to go in life. By knowing exactly what you want to achieve, you know what you have to concentrate on to do it. A goal is a definite intention to create something and the more focus you apply to your goal, the more likely you are to be successful.

"Intention is powerful in proportion to the narrowness of its focus." - Neville

Goal setting is a standard technique used by professional athletes, successful business people and high achievers in all fields. It gives you long term vision and provides you with short term motivation.

It helps to focus your attention and knowledge which helps you to organize your resources. By setting sharp and clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals. You can see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless effort.

By setting goals, you will also raise your self confidence, as you recognize your and ability to meet the goals that you have set. The process of achieving goals and seeing this achievement gives you confidence that you will be able to achieve higher and more difficult goals later on.

Goals are set on a number of different levels.

First, you decide what you want to do with your life and what large scale goals you want to achieve. Be careful to evaluate your goals from an important perspective: "Is this something I want? Or, is this something I think will please someone else?"

Second, you break your goals down into the smaller objectives, or mileposts. If you want to run a marathon, begin by planning a jog around the block. Follow that with completing a mile, then two, then five. Keep your focus on the next milepost - and not necessarily on the ultimate goal. This will help you to stay positive about your progress and build your confidence - and enthusiasm as you go.

Finally, once you have your plan, you start working towards achieving it.

It's my opinion that the great value of goals is to bring to surface your limitations. You will get stuck along the way. That's the time to seek support - a friend you can count on, or a personal coach. We all hold onto limiting beliefs and feelings - goals only serve to help us grow by bringing those limiting beliefs and feelings to the surface to be resolved. I recommend a program called the Abundance Course to learn how to quickly and easily dissolve those limiting thoughts and feelings.