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Living a Life of Rewards with Practical Goal Setting

Written by: Marshall W. Northcott

Article Overview: Mastering the principles and practices of goal setting will help you achieve the results that you desire, live up to your own expectations and rise to your fullest potential. Read on to learn about practical goal setting, discover how it will benefit you and the impact it will have on your life...

Living a Life of Rewards with Practical Goal Setting

Practical Goal Setting can be defined or described, in many different ways. There are various perceptions on the subject, some of them are:

• Writing down what you want to have happen in your life.
• Putting a date on when you want the event or completion to happen.
• Continually updating the list, adding new goals and celebrating the accomplishment of old ones.
• A method that assists us to get the significant things in life.
• Maintaining focus and being purpose driven.
• How we know if we are "on track" with our accomplishments in comparison to what we set out to do.
• Something that can be applied to both our personal and professional lives.
• Defining or outlining your personal roadmap to success.
• A focus on the future by setting higher standards.
• An organizational tool used to work towards a difficult objective.
• Strategized planning for a desired outcome.
• A prioritized to do list.

Purpose or Benefit of Practical Goal Setting

The primary purposes or benefits of goal setting are listed below:

• Helps you to meet and exceed your objectives (i.e. territory growth, sales revenues, earnings, etc.)
• Makes it possible for you to earn above average commissions and additional bonuses and incentives that are available.
• Creates mental momentum and challenges us to accomplish more of what we are capable of doing.
• Increases personal satisfaction and happiness.
• Achievement of desired outcomes in life.
• Gives us a reason or purpose in what we are doing everyday.
• Reduces stress by minimizing the number of unknowns.
• Keeps us moving and forward focused for more than just today.
• Makes it easier for us to prioritize or identify what needs to be done during our daily activities so we may achieve a desired outcome.
• Provides a method for us to gage the effectiveness of our activities.
• Keeps the focus on the "bigger picture" even during setbacks.
• Helps you to attract the things you desire, the tools, resources and people necessary to achieve your goals because you tend to get what you think about.

"To do the impossible, you must see the invisible."

The Impact of Practical Goals

Setting practical goals and then following through as required, in order to successfully achieve the results, will impact your personal and professional life in many beneficial ways which include:

• Having a true sense of direction, taking control of your life and charting a course for personal and professional success.
• Making things happen, instead of waiting for them to happen.
• Being confident and creating the results that you truly desire.
• Accomplishing so much more than you ever thought you were capable of.
• Happiness, satisfaction and ultimate peace with your life results.
• Having an "I am in charge of my destiny" attitude.
• Additional excitement, energy and enthusiasm.
• Ultimate performance because of high energy.
• Feeling a comfortable level of stress that motivates you because you are driving towards the goals that you have set for yourself.
• Feeling a sense of freedom and resolve that is liberating.
• Knowing where you are because of the measurement system you have created.

"Nothing breeds success, like success!"

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