Goal Setting for Success!

By GERARD ASSEY

One of the most essential tasks for any individual, team or organization to be effective and successful is to set goals and pursue after it.

Successful people think about what they want and how to get what they want which are their goals, and they get their goals by paying the price required to get to those goals. However, unsuccessful people discuss anything but what they want. They talk about their problems and worries, and look for who is to blame most of the time.

Everyone wants success, but you must equip yourself with the right tools and skills to become the very best version of yourself. The best part however, is that these skills and tools can be learnt and this is what this Master Workbook will help you do- to invent your future instead of trying to dwell on the past, by providing a practical and step by step process to achieving all your goals and maximizing and boosting your own as well as your team's productivity. Remember that your life now is a result of what you did a year ago; and life a year from now will be the result of what you do RIGHT NOW! So ACT accordingly!

The rung of the ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enable him to put the other somewhat higher!

So as the saying goes: If It's To Be, It's Up To Me! So go for it!!!

• Language: English
• Publisher: GERARD ASSEY
• Release date: Oct 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798215263648

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Gerard Assey

GOAL SETTING for SUCCESS!

By

Gerard Assey

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Contents

List of Illustrations in the Book

Preface

Objectives of this Book: What will this Book help you Achieve?

Importance of Goal setting- Why set goals?

Main Advantages and Benefits of Goal Setting

Why People don't set Goals

Why People Fail to Achieve their Goals

What is Stopping You?

Excuses! Procrastination!

Mistakes in Goal Setting

Steps in Establishing Goals

Types of Goals and Deciding on your Specific Goals

Setting your 10 Life Goals-10 F's

Creating SMARTER Goals

Creating a Goal Statement

Developing an Action Plan

Plan on Achieving your Goal

The 6 Diamonds of Goal (Gold) Setting

Tools for Goal Setting

Handling Key Challenges Experienced along the Way

Assessing and Evaluating your Goals and Progress

Managing your Team through Goal Setting

Conclusion

About the Author

List of Illustrations

Procrastination- Excuses people come up with

The Procrastination Cycle

My Life’s Goals- 10 F’s

Creating S.M.A.R.T.E.R. Goals

The Goal Funnel

Goal Setting- Action Planning-Long-Range Goals

Goal Setting- Action Planning- Weekly Worksheets

Goal Setting- Action Planning-List of Weekly/ Daily Tasks

Goal Setting- Action Planning-Setting My Action Plan

10. To Do List-U/H/M/L

11. Action Planning Chart

Preface

One of the most essential tasks for any individual, team or organization to be effective and successful is to set goals and pursue after it.

So I’d like to start this book, by carrying out a self-check to see if you know the answers to the following questions:

What do you want to achieve this year?

What do you want to achieve in five years?

What do you want to achieve in your lifetime?

Sadly, if you were to ask most people the above questions, the average person goes through life with no definite aim or ambition, but just hoping and wishing that something good will happen, or at least nothing bad will take place- and with absolutely no aim in life, the chances are he/she would fail miserably. This characteristic can be traced back to the school days where we find the majority do not have goals in life. This is one of the basic reasons why majority fail to achieve anything worthy in life.

If you were to ask anyone about his/her ambition, goals or aspirations in life, the most likely answer would be happiness or success. And what can get you to that state even if we were to take that as an answer? And note that this answer is certainly not a goal, but a vague and fuzzy situation which one hopes for. True success or happiness is a total sum of our accomplishments- mentally, socially, spiritually and financially, which eventually gives one a sense of achievement. Without goals, the average person just exists and drifts aimlessly in life, hoping to land somewhere. A man without goals is a lost man-lost in the sea of opportunities.

Like a sign in an optometrist’s office says: ‘If you don’t see what you want, you’ve come to the right place!’

Successful people think about what they want and how to get what they want which are their goals, and they get their goals by paying the price required to get to those goals. However, unsuccessful people discuss anything but what they want. They talk about their problems and worries, and look for who is to blame most of the time.

To be successful, a person has to know what he/she wants, with a definite aim. And therefore success can be summarized as the progressive realization of your worthy ideals- whatever it may be that you consider worthy of your efforts. Picture any sport-if you take football as an example; the goal of the match is to shoot the ball into the net. Without that goal, there is no need for playing the football match. The same illustration applies to life, without goals you live an unexamined life which is not worth living-as it is like moving aimlessly in the dark. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and accurate to your target.

This proves that one of the most essential tasks for any individual or group to be successful is proper goal setting. It is important to spend adequate amount of time on brainstorming and setting out on the goals you want to accomplish. Studies have proved