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Fun Facts on How to Write Goals That Can Successfully Affect Your Life and Business

By John Johnson
Nov 4, 2009
No matter what you are striving for, there are a couple of easy things to learning how to write goals that you can actually achieve. These tricks will succeed regardless of whether you want to lose weight, walk a 5K, or tone up your out of condition arms. These actions to achievement are to make your dreams possible and as precise as possible.

If your goals are not realistic, then you are certain to not succeed no matter what you do. When you finally understand you have failed, the setback can be crushing.

Let's take weight loss as a case in point. If you state you would like to lose thirty pounds by the year end and it is already mid-November you have practically no chance of truly attaining that goal. When the year end arrives you will be dissatisfied no matter how much weight you did manage to lose.

A realistic option may be to say you want to lose six pounds in that time frame. This is something that could realistically occur, and in fact you could lose a handful of extra pounds and do better than the goal.

Your chances of victory are much higher with the lower, more practical goal. Yet, it still doesn't hurt to persevere with the hope of losing a few extra pounds in your mental view. This may motivate you to work harder, increasing your chances of success all the more.

If you accomplish your goal of six pounds you will feel successful, but if you reach the higher mental goal you will feel an added rush of satisfaction. Either way, you come out a winner.

So, how do you monitor your progress and measure success in the end? The second secret is to make sure your goals are as precise as possible.

Think of our prior example of losing six pounds by the end of the year. A generalized goal may be that you want to look exquisite on New Year's Eve. There is very little here by which to measure progress.

To get specific, you should amend this goal to say you want to lose six pounds and fit into a certain dress for New Year's Eve. As long as the dress size is realistic, you can now gauge progress by trying on the dress occasionally and you will know exactly when you meet the goal.

These two tricks to learning how to write goals that result in success depend on your knowing exactly what you really want. Once you know where you want to go, you can set exact and realistic goals which will in due course lead to that destination.
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