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Setting goals falls into 2 categories personal and business, they are incredibly important and will help you achieve so much more.  Having no goal means you have not target, nothing to aim for, to help pick you up when time maybe a bit more challenging.

The actual action of deciding on goals yelps you decide what you want out of life, just paying the electricity bill although important is not always motivating enough.  By knowing what you want helps you plan the route to achieving it.  This will help you stay focused when times are needed and other things could distract you.

Setting goals and achieving them can increase confidence 10 fold they should be reviewed and updated.  Often as times progress things and priorities change and so should your goals to reflect this.

Who uses goal setting

Well if you speak to anyone who is top of their game whether it's direct sales, athletes, politicians, business people they will all be aiming for something.

Setting personal goals

You must start with personal goals, as the business goals are there to help you hit the personal ones.  You need a big goal, a picture of where you see yourself in the long term, some may call this a daydream, I call it a vision.  Once you have the big goal, then you need to work backwards to mid and short term goals, so step by step you can see how to get there like planning a route on a map.  Of course their will be road works on the way but as long as you have a destination you will find another route there.

Breaking down goals

Once you have your big goal, you now have to break it down into smaller attainable goals, so where do you want to be in 10 years, 5 years, 3 years, 1 years, 6 months, 1 month, 1 week, 1 day.  By breaking this down goals shows you each day what your target each day and what you need to do.

Setting goals you believe in

Don't just say to people you want a Ferrari, or a big house because that's what you think you should say.  You need to have a goal that really motivated you, it could be about becoming financially independent, having a dream holiday, what ever it is be honest with yourself.

Goals help you overcome challengers

Having small, medium and large goals helps you overcome small to large negatives.