Follow These Goal Setting Steps & Turn Dreams Into Reality
Goals, dreams, and aspirations don’t just materialise. You need a process in place so follow these goal setting steps to manifest what you want in life.
Hi, I’m Trish Davies and I want to welcome you to what is my last post for 2020. Well, it certainly has been a turbulent year to say the least. A year that has shifted the world off it’s kilter and into the unknown.
For many the year can’t end quick enough, a feeling that they have had for many months. The good news is that tomorrow is 2021 and a year of new beginnings, new hope, and new opportunities.
One thing is for sure and that is you must enter the new year with a positive mindset. Yes things will remain uncertain for a number of months but there will come a point where the tide turns. A firmly believe that will happen and you should also.
Hopefully when I sit here next New Years Eve the world will be in a better place and back to some kind of normality. Well as much as it can be with confidence restored, lives heading on the up and the world’s economy starting to recover.
To ensure that all of the above happens you, I, and everyone else in the world must start setting goals. Short, medium, and long-term so recovery can be facilitated and then turned into growth.
Whether it is the doctors, scientists and politicians trying to rid the world of Covid-19. The business owners trying to survive and then thrive. Or the worlds general population trying to restore safety and security within their own four walls. Everyone has to set goals and put a process into place.
Goal Setting Steps – Goal, Plan & Action
What I intend to do today is lay out a simple process to set goals. There are three goal setting steps that I will cover today which are goal, plan & action. Unless you take the time to go through this process any dreams or aspirations you may have will stay as dreams and aspirations.
It doesn’t matter what you want to achieve or change in your life. If you have not got any direction to follow then you will remain lost, not moving forward, not improving your life. To make sure that doesn’t happen follow these goal setting steps.
Setting A Goal
When setting your goal, you must be very specific on what it is you want to achieve. Identify your goal and then write it down or if you have multiple goals write them all down.
Your goal must have purpose to it, something that will either change or benefit your life. Goals can be set for both personal and professional purposes, but the principle of specificity remains the same. I will give you an example of a goal shortly to illustrate what I mean.
Creating A Plan
Now you have identified your goal, or goals, you must create a plan to bring those goals to fruition. It is important to accept that your journey will have challenges, it won’t be plain sailing. Therefore, you must identify any potential obstacles that you may face.
Then you must define the clear steps that must be taken in order for you to accomplish your goal. This means you must be clear on what you must do, when you must complete it by and how you are going to complete it.
Taking Action
The last of the goal setting steps is to take action on what you have planned out. You will have specific tasks in place that must be completed in the order you have listed. Therefore, start from top to bottom and take the physical action steps needed. This step really is elf explanatory, but I will now illustrate how to put these three goal setting steps in place.
Goal, Plan & Action
For this example, I’m going to look at a goal which relates to having an online business. There are many marketing and advertising strategies that any business owner can leverage.
One of the most popular marketing strategies is leveraging YouTube to create a following. Let’s flesh out these goal setting steps.
Goal
- To Get 10,000 Subscribers By June 30th, 2021
- Purpose – To Build A Following.
- To Create Awareness And Engagement
Plan
- Need YouTube Channel
- Keyword Research – Target Phrases & Keywords To Create Videos Around
- What Equipment Is Needed
- How To Shoot The Videos
- How Many Videos Needed Per Week
- Need To Understand How YouTube Works
Action
- Create YouTube Channel
- Spend Time Using Answer The Public, Keywords Everywhere To Research & Compile List Of Keywords To Focus On
- Get A Smartphone Or Camera
- Experiment With Your Phone Or Camera To Get Comfortable Shooting Video
- Record Videos
- Search Online For Training On YouTube & Learn Platform
- Upload Videos To YouTube
- Track Your Progress
Now this is just a very simple example of a specific goal. The point I am making is that there are three goal setting steps which need to be broken down. By breaking down each step as I have shown it will give you the clarity you need about your goal.
Clarity on what it is you want to achieve, how to achieve it and then the action you need to take.
When you take the time to go through this exercise you can achieve anything you want to in life. 2021 has the potential to be a ground-breaking year which will see this deadly virus finally come under control.
It will be the start of the recovery for the worlds economy, businesses will be revived and then flourish. I am sure 2020 has been a taxing year for you personally but things will get better. You must believe that!
Take that belief and go through these goal setting steps to craft a life that gives you joy, happiness, peace, and fulfilment. You have the power to do whatever you want, achieve whatever you want, live the life you wan to live.
I wish you every success for 2021 and beyond and would love to know what goals you will be setting. Please list your goal setting steps below in the comment box. Once you do that you have made your statement of intent, it is there in black and white. You then become accountable which gives you the motivation follow through!
Helping you build your authenticity, authority, and audience.
Trish Davies
Build Your AU
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