Achieve Your Goals in these 6 Easy Steps

Throughout your life you have made goals and made plans to achieve them, and sometimes you were successful and sometimes not.  Every day that passes you are either moving closer to your goals or letting them slip further away.  It is something like making decisions, even when you do nothing it is still a decision.  Be rest assured the longer that you stand idle; you are allowing your goals to slip by.  Follow my 6 easy steps and you too can achieve your goals.

Obtain a Clear Idea of What You Want-

No matter how well a plan is laid out or who helped devise it, if there is no end result goal.  You must be very specific in your end result you want to obtain.  Think about these two statements and consider what they are really saying.

1. "I want a better career."  While this is a statement, it is not very specific.  You need to know exactly what career you want and what benefits does it need to make it better.

2."I want to be an entrepreneur." Again, another powerful statement but not very               specific.With this example, you want to know exactly you would be doing as an entrepreneur and how it would change your lifestyle.

Have the End in Sight-

What is it going to look like once you achieve your goal, visualize yourself after this goal.  Run the details through your mind.  Once these details are all right in order jot them down, without missing any details of how and why.  There will be days that you want to throw it all out the window, and I have been there many times.  When this happens, and trust me it will happen.  Take the details you wrote down and read through them to get yourself back on track.

Imagine the Great Feeling of Success-

The third step in achieving you goals is to imagine the feeling of the success.  Consider what it will be like once your goal is achieved.  How will your life be?  How much happiness will this new achievement bring you?  What type of celebration will you have?  The more pleasure you can obtain from achieving this goal will give you more determination to take action.

The Unforgiving, Painful Thought-

Just the opposite of the good feeling, some people are able to perform better thinking of the idea of failure.  What do you run the chance of not obtaining if you fail?  How will you look to those around you?  How will it make you feel as a person?  What will you think of yourself?  Use these painful thoughts to also take action to move closer to your achieving you goals.  Just remember while you may know what these pains look and feel like, you ultimately control your actions.

Take Action Every Single Day-

Somewhat like I lightly touched on at the beginning of this article, you need to be taking actions that move you forward to your goals.  Taking no actions is an action that takes you backwards, and you cannot afford many of those.  Start by deciding which important activities you need to complete on a daily basis that moves you forward.  There are going to be days you are tired, sick, or life in general happens.  You still need to complete these actions or at least do something that moves you forward.  Something as simple as reading a book, watching a relevant video, or talking with likeminded people is movement forward.

Never Lose the Vision-

On a daily basis you need to keep yourself fully aware of the specific goal you want to achieve.  A way to remind yourself daily is reading your goal and the plan on how and why you want to get there.  I have also heard of people putting up a poster board with pictures about the goal and how it would make them feel.  Back in the day when I was working for a major retailer, I had huge desires to become a store manager.  I knew exactly what I needed to do on a daily basis and I knew why.  I focused on these actions on a daily basis and I did end up becoming a store manager, and what a great feeling that gave me.

I know that these 6 steps may come across quite easy, the rewards and benefits can be abundant.  Remember, take action every day and you will soon be achieving your goals in no time at all. You too can achieve your goals, you just need to follow these steps.