Personal Goal And Goal Statement Examples
- All Personal goals must have a clear specific plan of action.
- You should review your personal goals and plan daily.
- Each plan will have several sub-goals and a primary goal.
If you have been following along from the start, you should now be making quite a lot of progress!
The goals you selected and wrote down in Part 3 will serve as your compass, and point you in the direction you want your life to go.
However in order to get to your destination, you need a map! So let’s look at how you create that map, and start writing your personal goal statement.
Don’t worry its not complicated!
Create A Plan For Your Personal Goals
For every goal that you have written down, you now need to create a specific plan of action to accomplish that goal.
This plan should include activities you can do on a daily, weekly, monthly or yearly basis that will bring you closer to achieving your goal. You will find that by creating this plan, you will also be creating lots of sub-goals.
The easiest way to visualize this, is by imagining your major goal as a staircase and each sub-goal as a single step. By completing each sub-goal, you slowly step up the staircase until you reach the top.
Your plan will ensure that everyday you take one step forward, and not one step back. This is why plans are so important.
Let’s look at an example of a personal goal statement.
Personal Goal Example -
1) Goal
- I am so happy now that I have a 30″ waistline. I can now easily fit into my new trousers. I look and feel great!
By August 2007
2) Affirmation
- I have a 30″ waistline
3) Plan Of Action
- Anaerobic Exercise 3 times a week (sub-goal).
- Monday + Friday Upper Body. Wednesday Lower Body (sub-goal).
- Start with 20kg?
- Find acceptable weight to lift? (sub-goal).
- Aerobic Exercise 5 times a week (sub-goal).
- Spend 30 minutes on exercise bike, or run for 30 minutes (sub-goal).
- Eat healthy food (sub-goal) stop eating ice-cream, chocolates or any sugary food.
- Measure waistline each month (sub-goal)
What you have just seen in this example, is based on a goal I set myself to loose some weight around the waist.
I changed the details slightly and the plan of action is not written in full, but you can see that the basic idea is to write down the activities that are needed to accomplish your goal.
But What If I Don’t Know What Activities To Do!Â
Don’t worry about writing your goals and plan perfectly the first time. They should be flexible and are likely to change over time.
If you don’t know all the activities you need to do, just write down the activities that you can think of and add more later.
For example, if you wanted to earn X amount of money each month but you didn’t know how you were going to earn that money, what would you do? Well, you could do 2 things.
1 - Don’t do anything, because you can’t think of anything to do.Â
2 - Set a goal to find out ways you can earn that money. This could include doing some research and finding out how other people make money, then deciding what’s best for you. If you can’t afford to buy books, search the Internet, there are plenty of good ideas out there.
To put it simply, if you don’t know how to do something, make it a goal to find out!
Look At Personal Goals Every Day
Everyday you should set aside 15-30 minutes, to review your goals and plan. In this time you should look at your goals and write them down again on a piece of paper.
This helps drive the goals further into your subconscious, increasing the strength and desire of the goal. You will know when your goal is getting stronger, because you will eventually start to alter your goal, making it more detailed and specific.
When this happens it means your brain is getting a clear picture of exactly what you want to accomplish. It will then start to attract the things into your life needed to accomplish that goal.
To speed up this process, after you have written down your goal, close your eyes for a minute and think about the goal in your head.
Extra Tips To Boost Goal Achievement
1 - For maximum results, it is absolutely essential that you discipline yourself to write your goals down everyday.
Most people are very enthusiastic for a few days or weeks and then give up when they don’t see any results. You must be patient.
2 - Look at or repeat your affirmations every day. This is why I suggested you start with 5 goals, as you can have 1 goal for each finger on your hand.
By repeating or writing affirmations, you will physically create new connections and pathways in your brain related to that goal.
3 - Visualise your goal as if it were already accomplished. Your first few attempts are likely to produce weak imagery, this is due to 2 reasons.
- Your brain does not have a clear and specific idea of what you want.
- As a result you will have weak brain connections and pathways related to your goal. These connections take time and repetition to develop and become stronger.
A good time (and also the most effective) for visualization is just before you go to sleep, or when you wake-up.
4 - Remind yourself of your goals as much as possible. A good way to do this is using a program called Goal Genie. It’s free and I use it myself.
Goal Genie will display goals on your computer screen at certain timed intervals, this will remind you of your goal and keep you focused.
5 - Create a ‘Dream Board’. A dream board is simply a board filled with images or text related to your goals.
This can help strengthen your intensity of visualization, by giving you images to work with in your mind.
Coming Up In Part 5…Personal Goal Overview
In the last part of this article, I will discuss some important points and give a bit of extra information about goals and why you should have them.
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August 24th, 2007 at 2:07 am
Hello! Good Site! Thank you!