Effective Goal Setting Practices

by Virginia Reeves

In this short, easy-to-read book you will be reminded of the many ways you can develop more practices for achieving your goal effectively and creatively. Here's a sampling of the contents.

Know where you are, where you want to go, and what you need to get there.
Believe you can accomplish whatever you decide you want. Have faith in your capabilities.
Welcome change; be flexible. Seek out alternatives and options.
Always be learning. This is key to achieving success personally and professionally.
Use techniques to focus and pay good attention to details and the 'big picture'.

Continually build a variety of networks to help achieve goals and receive support and encouragement.
Learn to set limits without feeling guilty by saying no to situations that diminish your aim.
Dare to make mistakes – it proves you are continually trying, risking, and learning.
Listen carefully, respectfully, and intelligently. You will discover so much more.
Positive attitudes set your mindset into the right direction to actualize your hopes, dreams, and goals.

Following a primary purpose (plus the secondary ones that add the 'extras') leads to living a life full of wonder and useful wanderings. Success comes from an accumulation of a lot of little things that quickly build together. Each step gives you the incentive to succeed again.

Make sure you consistently check, verify, and understand your ideas and assumptions. Asking questions is an approach and attitude that can bring many good contributions. You'll appear more intuitive, insightful, and resourceful to those you interact with. Awareness of other viewpoints, needs and wants, suggestions, and casual talk invariably generates some type of positive consequence. Giving regard to other ideas is essential because it leads to new ways of thinking by looking at the known factors as well as the challenges you may encounter.

How much you succeed is directly proportional to how much you promote, entice, or somehow energize other people. People tend to believe in helping one another and seek ways to create a supportive partnership. Intangible values such as satisfaction, security, quality, reliability, prestige, trust, reassurances, and peace of mind are treasured.

Eliminate the excuses and invalidate the 'reasonable' justifications. Identify the thing you most want to fix, change, or do new and isolate what keeps you from getting it. Focus on what actions you can take (those you control emotionally, physically, and mentally), choose your favorite or the one that's most likely doable. Relying on confidence in your abilities leads to daring yourself to examine diverse directions and perspectives.

Clarity and focus come from experience and knowledge, which create a reservoir of wisdom within your brain and subconscious. Learning what is 'just right' for you, right now, is something you often already know, deep inside. Create an intention which is a clear statement of what you plan to do. Take responsibility for the achievement of that declaration. You own it which leads to empowerment and commitment.

This is one of many books in the series Permission Granted Today. All take an in-depth look at a specific topic which gives you an immersion from different perspectives.

I hope you enjoy the material and learn techniques to create and attain even more goals for yourself.

43 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 5, 2016

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author with this name in the Goodreads database. For the novelist, see Virginia Reeves.