Friday, November 5, 2010

Goal Setting Tips

The following broad guidelines will help you to set effective goals:



  • State each goal as a positive statement: Express your goals positively.

  • Be precise: Set a precise goal, putting in dates, times and amounts so that you can measure achievement.

  • Set priorities: When you have several goals, give each a priority. This helps you to avoid feeling overwhelmed by having too many goals, and helps to direct your attention to the most important ones.

  • Write goals down: This crystallizes them and gives them more force.

  • Keep operational goals small: Keep the low-level goals you are working towards small and achievable. If a goal is too large, then it can seem that you are not making progress towards it. Keeping goals small and incremental gives more opportunities for reward.

  • Set performance goals, not outcome goals: You should take care to set goals over which you have as much control as possible.

  • Set realistic goals: It is important to set goals that you can achieve.

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