Thursday, March 11, 2010

Achieving success with Goals

If you were to ask the experts to select the #1 key to success, most would say...clearly defined goals. Because, without goals your dreams have no chance to become a reality.

The 10 Rules for Achieving Success with Goals.

According to Gary Ryan Blair who is one of the nation's top authors on the topic of goals. Gary teaches that your life will not go according to plan if you don't have a plan.

He says achieving a goal is like opening a combination lock. You need the correct numbers in the correct right, left, right sequence. There are thousands of possible combinations; and if you are aware of the settings but not the sequence, your efforts will prove futile.

The Ten Rules of Goal Setting is the combination that opens the lock of success. Each rule is one piece of the combination; each seamlessly integrates with the other nine; each one counts!

Here are the 10 Rules of Goal Setting.

Rule #1 BE DECISIVE
Rule #2 STAY FOCUSED
Rule #3 WRITE YOUR GOALS
Rule #4 PLAN THOROUGHLY
Rule #5 INVOLVE OTHERS
Rule #6 WELCOME FAILURE
Rule #7 TAKE PURPOSEFUL ACTION
Rule #8 INSPECT WHAT YOU EXPECT
Rule #9 REWARD YOURSELF
Rule #10 MAINTAIN PERSONAL INTEGRITY

A question for you -

Have you looked at your goals lately? Maybe it’s time to take some time to review, adjust, revise or rewrite some or all of them. The year is flying by.

It’s OK to do this, so

Just do it!