Setting Means Getting
by Tom Hopkins
The average human being has the ability to achieve almost anything. Lack of basic capability is rarely the problem, but rather finding out what you want and being willing to sacrifice, change, and grow to satisfy the want.
In the sales training seminars I conduct throughout the country, I teach a 20-step system of goal setting to help people achieve and I firmly believe it can be applied to all walks of life.
Here it is:
1. If it's not in writing, it's not a goal. An unwritten
want is a wish, a dream, a never-happen. If it's in writing,
it's a commitment.
2. If it's not specific, it's not a goal. Broad desires and
lofty aims have no effect. It must be concrete.
3. Goals must be believable. If you don't believe you can
achieve a goal, you won't pay the price for it.
4. An effective goal is an exciting challenge. It must
demand your best and a bit more or it isn't going to change
your ways and elevate your lifestyle.
5. Goals must be adjusted to new information. Adjust them
down if they become unbelievable or up if they're too easy.
6. Dynamic goals guide our choices. If you want it badly
enough, you'll turn off the TV and get to it. Goals will
show you the right way to go on most decisions.
7. Don't set short-term goals for more than 90 days. If you
set a short-term goal that takes more than 90 days, you may
lose interest.
8. Maintain a balance between long-term and short-term
goals. Long-term goals tend to be hidden in a fog of the
future, so have some short-term goals - like clothes, cars,
vacations - to keep your excitement up.
9. Include your loved ones in your goals. Involve them and
they'll buck you up when you need encouragement.
10. Set goals in all areas of your life. Have other goals
besides career objectives.
11. Your goals must harmonize. Whenever you detect a
conflict, set priorities that will eliminate the conflict.
12. Review your goals regularly. Remember, long-term goals
can only be achieved if they are the culmination of short-
term goals.
13. Set vivid goals. Define not only what you want but by
when you want it, and concentrate on it for a few moments
every day.
14. Don't chisel your goals in granite. Sometimes you have
to change goals to conform to your growing awareness of
what's really important in your life.
15. Reach out into the future. The idea of goal-setting is
to plan your life rather than taking it as it comes. Begin
by setting 20-year goals. Then 10-year, five-year, 30-month,
12-month, monthly, weekly, and finally goals for tomorrow
and each day for the coming week.
16. Have a set of goals for every day, and review results
each night.
17. Train yourself to crave your goals. Visualize yourself
possessing what you've set your goals for.
18. Set activity goals, not production goals. Activity will
lead to production by itself.19. Understand luck, and make it work for you. Expect good
things to happen, and they probably will.
20. Start now. Give goal-setting two hours of concentrated
through today. Then set aside 10 minutes a day for the next
21 days to review and revise. After that, two minutes a day
and one hour a week is all it will take to keep you on
track.
Try this system if you want to achieve your goals and within
21 days you'll be well on your way to an immensely greater
and richer future.
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