Success Strategy 4: Goal Setting

As a teacher I know you have a lot of experience setting goals - goals for your certification, yearly goals, goals for your students, etc. The goals you will write here are for you, to make your life richer, to help you realize all that you want in life. This will help you on your path to riches and hopefully achieving balance in your life.

This is what Brian Tracy says in his book Goals (2004):

"Success is goals, and all else is commentary. All successful people are intensely goal oriented. They know what they want and they are focused single-mindedly on achieving it, every single day. Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target."

Your Success Targets

Your action steps for this strategy are to define your goals and write them in the positive as if they have already happened. If you can, try for three goals in each of the key life areas we discussed in success strategy three:

  1. Financial- Income, debt reduction, investments, net worth, financial freedom, multiple streams of income
  2. Profession- career
  3. Hobbies, travel, recreation, fun
  4. Health and fitness
  5. Relationships, family, friends
  6. Personal development and growth
  7. Community, service, contribution to society
You may want to sketch out your goals and then refine them a few at a time. When setting your goals work backwards. Look at your personal mission statement. Look at your list of 100 things you want to do, be, and have. These should be your guide.

Next, think about where you want to be in all of the seven key life areas five years from now. Still working backward, identify three goals in each area that you want to achieve over the next year. Be as specific as you can, how much, by when.

When defining your goals, think about what really matters most to you. It is your desire to achieve your goals, what matters most, that will move you toward success.

Don't worry about the "how" of your goals yet.

Once you have defined your goals, your mind will start to work night and day to achieve it.

Your mind will start to work out the "how."

Now that you have identified and set your goals you are ready to move on to learning how to achieve those goals.

You will create a project plan for achieving the goals you want to work on first.

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