(iii) Attainable
Ensure that your goals are feasible to achieve and are attainable. If not 100%, at least some portions or tasks should be achievable in a noted period of time. Else, it would only demotivate you and shatter your self-confidence.
However, resist the urge to set goals that are too easy. Accomplishing a goal that you didn't have to work hard for can be anticlimactic at best, and can also make you fear setting future goals that carry a risk of non-achievement.
(iv) Relevant and Realistic
Your goals should be relevant to the path of your life and your career that you choose. Do not complicate your life and goals by scattering them and making them inconsistent with your other life goals, else you will fritter your life away.
Also, it should be realistic. A goal has to be something that we can reasonably make “real” or a “reality” in our lives. You have to be able to say, even if it is a tremendously stretching goal, that yes, indeed, it is entirely realistic—that you could make it, just that you need A, B or C things to make it possible. But the bottom line is that it is achievable in reality.
(v) Time-Bounded
Every goal should have a timeframe attached to it. In technical terms, we call it a deadline. A deadline is a must when you are targeting anything in life else there are high chances of losing the sight of your goals. One of the powerful aspects of a great goal is that it has an end—a time in which you are shooting to accomplish it. As time goes by, you work on it because you don’t want to get behind, and you work diligently because you want to meet the deadline. While working on a deadline, your sense of urgency increases and success will knock your door a lot more soon.
1 Set goals related to the priorities
The plan of action that you work for should have priorities set.
For example, if you have 100 bucks and you want to spend them. You then plan to buy an apartment for 100 bucks and spend the complete amount or instead you will buy a car for 60 bucks, plan a holiday for 30 bucks and donate the remaining 20 bucks. It is totally up to you and your life priorities.
Life is all about priorities and you need to set it appropriately to achieve success. If the right priority order is not set in the plan of actions, then you will mess it up all and the execution might go for a toss leading to a complete disaster.
2.3 Setting Daily Goals: Importance and Purpose
How many people actually engage in daily goal setting? Or rather call it as active goal setting, opposed to the passive goal setting that is set only once in a while.
Successful people “think” success all the time. That is why their goals are firmly lodged in their subconscious. The subconscious is brilliant at prioritizing. It listens to you and gauges from your thoughts what you think is the most important task.
This means that what you think about most of the time is what the Subconscious will think is the most important thing for you and will try to find creative solutions. If you think about problems, the Subconscious will try to find you more problems. If you think about solutions, goals, and dreams, it will try to make them come true.
2.3.1 Importance of Daily Goals
Daily goal setting is an integral part of any successful routine because it allows us to weigh and analyze just where we stand on a day-to-day basis. Since it’s easy to lose sight of our long-term goals, especially when dealing with the millions of distractions in our lives, daily goal setting allows us to stay on track and on point.
2.3.2 Purpose of Daily Goals
Daily goals allow us to act on the micro while focusing on the macro. Long-term goals are great, but they’re easy to lose sight of.
The daily goals that you set should be derived from your long-term goals. However, when long-term goals are reinforced by daily goals and milestones, pushing closer to your dreams becomes far easier.
Without daily goal setting and keeping regular track, it’s far harder to gain this kind of highly-intuitive insight into the progress towards your goals.
Conclusion
Goal-setting is an absolute must for people who want to succeed, find their true purpose, and create joy in their lives. Without clear goals, you will not have a clear direction on where you're heading in your life. When you know your life purpose, determine your vision, convert your desires into achievable goals and then act on them, you're virtually guaranteed success.
The most important benefit of setting goals isn’t achieving your goal; it’s what you do and the person you become in order to achieve your goal that’s the real benefit. If you want to succeed, you need to set goals.
We all have the ability to achieve the impossible, and yet so few of us are able to make our lives extraordinary. This is not because we are anything lesser than our successful peers, and certainly not because they are luckier than us. What makes some people exceptional is the power of their thinking, or rather their mindset. A mind-set roughly refers to the inner beliefs, entrenched deep down in our sub-consciousness, based on which we form an opinion about the world, and ourselves. These beliefs are a product of our surroundings, our interactions with different elements of the society, our upbringing, and our own actions. While a lot of these factors are out of our direct control, it doesn’t mean that our mindset or attitude cannot be changed. With sincere intentions and persistent effort, there is nothing that cannot be achieved.
3.1 What is a Million Dollar Mindset?
A million dollar mindset is a success-oriented mindset -a growth mindset which believes that every skill and talent can be developed through effort and practice. It is the opposite of a fixed mindset. A fixed mindset persuades us into believing that our qualities, intelligence, and talents are fixed, innate traits, of which we have a certain amount.
People with such mindset rely on experience, and persistence to keep growing as an individual, taking challenges heads on all the way. These people, although not as ‘gifted’, yet are not afraid of facing hurdles and making mistakes.
Falling into the trap of the ‘gifted’ theory, a person becomes afraid of making mistakes which becomes his undoing. Afraid to come out of the comfort zone, he does not take risks and achieve his full potential.
If you want to be successful, you first must believe that you can be. Your mindset is everything! For most, success equates to having wealth. But for others, success is simply doing better than the generation of people that came before them. In short, success is subjective to popular opinion. Success doesn’t seem to come easy, nor does it happen to those who aren't looking for it.
Success-Oriented Mindset drives success for you. Let us have a quick glance at a few of the timeless quotes by some of the most successful individuals and respected too. These quotes can help you in training your mind to think about success.
1 “Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life because you become what you believe.” - Oprah Winfrey