Goals Action!

By Russell McNair

This book aims to guide the reader in understanding the basic building blocks for successful goal setting and achievement.

The book helps the reader to identify their desires, decide what success means to them, help find balance in their life, create goals, and find the time to make them happen.

It is designed to increase the reader's motivation and clarity and set their focus towards their desired outcomes. The Goals Action! eBook is in easy to follow sections with plenty of illustrative examples throughout.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Nov 6, 2011
• ISBN: 9781456606039

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Conclusion

Introduction

What do you most want to achieve in life?

Having a family? Retiring early? Expanding your business? Learning a foreign language? Living in the country? Running the country? Writing a book? Becoming an artist? Flying a plane? Establishing world peace? Creating financial security? De-cluttering your life?

Whatever you want – you are never more than one step away from commencing your journey towards realizing it. Every journey starts with a single step. And every dream or desire that you have in your life can become a goal where you take one step towards it, then another, then another, then another, until you get to where you want to be.

Goals really are a powerful tool for turning your visions into reality.

History is filled with people who started with a dream and ended with a reality. However, history is also filled with people who had a dream and never made it a reality. The difference is not actually in who the people who succeeded were and who the people who never succeeded were. The difference is in the fact that many of the people who succeeded did so through the process of setting and achieving goals.

Most surveys will tell you that between only 3% and 5% of people create and write down goals. That small percentage of people are usually more successful in any area of life than anyone who does not set and write down their goals.

In each part of our lives, be it health, relationships, money, hobbies, business, emotions, spiritual connection, home, or mental improvement, goals enable you to define what you want, create a plan, and take action to get results.

Unfortunately, most people have never put much effort into discovering what they really want their life to be about; what they want to achieve, what they want to attract into their life, or contribute back to those around them. It’s been said that we spend more time on balancing our bank accounts than we do on balancing our lives.

I believe that you bought this workbook because you want to make changes in your life, otherwise you wouldn’t bother with something like this. And since you do want to make changes, you are amongst the minority of people who want to seriously and proactively do something to improve their lives, the lives of those around them, or even the world.

So, the challenge for you in undertaking this program is to seriously use the information and tools offered to you in a consistent and determined manner in order to make real changes in your life.

You don’t have to do anything. Your involvement is up to you.

If you get involved and take part in the exercises, you will get a lot out; there is a great deal of information presented here. How much you learn depends on how much you’re prepared to be involved.

Don’t be afraid to rise to the challenge. I do want to stretch you with this program, as a little challenge will enable you to grow in the process of learning.

Goals are not simply just the completion of an activity. This is just a task. Unlike goals, tasks do not require us to be challenged or stretched or lead to growth. They merely require us to do something that we may have done many times before, or, at least, they are something that we have no concern or uncertainty about doing.

Instead, a goal requires us to push through our limits in order to achieve it. This will often require more planning, mental preparation and