How to Set Effective Goals and Avoid Failure to Achieve Them

Have you set a goal you desired and fallen short of reaching it in the past? Perhaps you set out on the path of reaching a dream, but you lost sight along the way and left it on the back burner. It's essential to set not just a goal but a goal that you aren't exactly sure how to accomplish but want more than anything. This particular goal will give you the courage to persevere and endure the tests of adversity the universe will challenge you.

What is the Step in Goal Setting?

Goals help you grow as a person from the inside out. If you grow from the inside, everything else the goal entails will follow suit. Goals are applied in all areas of life, but you should have a professional plan and a personal purpose. Both goals must be beyond something you've done before and beyond something you know how to do. Doing this will ensure you get out of your comfort zone and grow into the person that can accomplish these goals.

3 Initial Steps in Goal Setting

1.) To develop and achieve a worthy goal, first, you need to decide what you want. You ought to think about this to make it effective in your life. Use your imagination similarly to when you were a child to play and pretend. What do you really want? Not what you want can happen based on your current circumstances or bank account. Let loose and explore your heart's desires. If money, time, or your social reach was not a concern, what would you like to create in your life?

2.) To find these goals make a list just like a shopping list or bucket list of wants. Do this for a personal purpose and your professional intent. The goal planning will begin to get your creative juices flowing. Don't hold back with this list. Go wild!

3.) When you complete this list, circle what you feel drawn to from your wants list. You then decide which wants you circled fills you with love and joy the most. The decisions of the goals will make you grow the most. Also, it will give you energy along the journey to accomplish it.

This energy is the excitement that you will need, especially when the going gets tough, and it will get tough. The universe will throw roadblocks at you separating you from your goal to see how serious you are about accomplishing it. The joy and love for this goal are what will drive you forward and help you get up no matter how many times you fall or reach a dead end.

Imagine if Thomas Edison stopped trying to figure out how to make the incandescent light bulb on the first try, let alone the ninth or tenth thousandth time. We might not have the light you're using right now if he did.

Consistency and passion is the reason it's so imperative to have a goal that lights you up and makes your heart glow. We must strive for greatness within ourselves to fuel us to become the person we must transform into to reach the goal we're seeking.

Steps to Avoid Failure When Goal Setting

To prevent failure in reaching this goal, you must bombard your mind and senses with the idea that this goal will be fulfilled no matter how far away it seems. How do you do this, though?

1. You will need to surround yourself with questions to prompt your thoughts to keep this goal at the forefront of your mind. Write down your goal as if it is already attained and place it in commonly used areas for you to be reminded of it. Write your dreams in the present tense like so, "I am so happy and grateful now that," then fill in your goal. Place this goal in areas like your bathroom mirror, desk, vehicle dashboard, computer, or cell phone screen saver and background. It's a wise idea to carry your goal with you at all times to keep you focused on it. Make your plan larger than a billboard metaphorically.

2. Next is to take action every day to reach your goal. Think about this and brainstorm what you need to do to accomplish your goal. Do not worry if you don't know what to do some days. Just put one foot in front of the other and TAKE ACTION! There will be times that you feel lost and aren't sure what the next step is. This is a very regular occurrence on the way to a huge goal. Remember that the universe is on your side and is working behind the scenes to help you whether you realize it or not.

Arm yourself against failure to reach your goal by following these six steps:

1) Make a list of wants personally and professionally.

2) Circle the wants you vibrate with the most.

3) Choose from those you circled that bring you the most joy.

4)Ask yourself do I love this goal, and will I need to grow as a person to reach it? If the answer is yes, then it's a great goal.

5) Barrage your mind with this goal constantly.

6) TAKE ACTION every day.

Clearly Defined Goals Lead to Success

When you set a goal that you absolutely love, you will see something new in yourself as you begin to take action. The person you will need to become to reach that goal is the real gift. You deserve to be the best version of you can be, not just for you but everyone around you. You will be bewildered by the progress you make, and when you look back, you will be looking from the consciousness of new you, and it will quite literally shock you.

I challenge you to take action and begin this quest, not tomorrow, not next week or year, but now. Now is the time to start and see what you are really made of.