What Goals Should I Set

Experience has suggested to me that not every person finds it easy to know what goals to set in each specific area until they are asked the right questions. When these right questions are asked, the light goes on and a clear image can come into focus.

Typically, you need questions that help you review your life and your achievements and understand the aspects of your life that you have enjoyed, that you are enthused by.

Being asked the right questions can be the key to unlocking your future success and happiness. Not only can it provide enormous motivational energy, but it can direct your attention towards the things you should really be doing.

Being asked the right questions can help you keep a more balanced approach to goal setting. It can help you see interactions between different areas of your life. Good goal setting is more enriching when it covers all areas of your life.

To get you started, I have taken some questions from the "Goals You Value" workbook and replicated them below. You should consider purchasing this simple goals workbook because, for some of you, it will provide the point where you need to start your goal setting journey. While it is quite basic and you don't need it to achieve goal setting success, it provides you with a framework to get started. If it does that for you, it will return your investment many 100's or 1,000's of times - or even more.

Question 1

What were your significant achievements last year?

This is a really fun question. It is a question worth considering, not only by yourself, but with others that are significant in your life. it is a question you should consider even if you weren't embarking on a goal setting program. it is a valuable question not only in the short term, bit it provides a great record to look back on. [That is one advantage of purchasing the "Goals You Value" workbook - it provides one central, easy to find, organised place to keep a listing of your achievements.]

Question 2

Another question to consider: What are the things important to you that you have still to achieve?

Some other important information from the "Goals You Value" workbook is the importance of holism in your goal setting. Your goals should cover all area of your life. The "Goals You Value" workbook suggest the following areas:

career
family
relationships
personal growth and development
spirituality
community
health, fitness and sport
home and garden
travel, holidays and hobbies

So, when you consider your

important achievements
the important things you have yet to achieve
and your goals

Make sure you also consider them with respect to the above area.

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What can you do after you have answered these questions

After you have discussed these questions with your partner (or just considered them yourself) you are in a position to take yourself ahead five (5) years and imagine your ideal life. Of course, you don’t have to take yourself ahead five years. It could be ten years or three years or two years or one year or even six months. But, you do need to take yourself into the future and imagine your ideal life. See it, hear it, feel it, taste it and smell it. Make the image of this ideal life as powerful as you can so that you are totally excited by it, totally motivated by it. How clearly can you see what that life is? How strongly can you feel the power and the enjoyment of having life that way?

Can you imagine how you look and how you feel?

Do you see the type of work you are doing?

Do you notice your relationships?

Are you totally happy with your financial situation?

How clearly do you notice your success in life?

Answering these and related questions will help you build your personal goal profile. From your personal goals profile, you will know what your what goals to set in specific areas of your life – business, sport, education, travel, health etc.

This process has been taken from the "Goals You Value" workbook. This goals workbook takes you through the process step by step. Load down a FREE trial version of this workbook and work through it. I suggest that you will find it a very valuable process to complete this goals workbook. It will help you gain a clearer picture of the goals that you should set that will improve the quality of your life. It will help you set goals that are more ecological. More ecological with regard to your own personal ecology and wellbeing.

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