Plan Your Journey Leading to Goal
“Goal
without a plan is nothing but a dream”-Herm Edwards
Goals
are the road map for the success. Without the goal the life is like a football
game without goal post. Goals are the fuel and starting point for destination.
Goals develop the real person in you. Goal creates the burning desire to build
self-efficacy. Written goals are deeper encoded. When goals are written and
repeated several times they are fed in subconscious mind so that law of
attraction happens and achievement process becomes faster.
You
have to decide and plan your goals well in advance to achieve them in later
part of your life journey. The title of the best seller book 'Unfinished'
written by Priyanka Chopra Jonas was decided by her before 20 years of writing
and publishing the work.
The
eminent Scientist Thomas Alva Edition always declared his goals in advice. He
used to call media and planned a gathering and openly announce that he was
going to do a particular invention. When you declare a particular goal, you cannot
escape from working on particular path. People always remind you when your
objectives are known to them. You are smart when your goals are SMART. If it is
elaborated, we can put them in following way,
S=specific,
M=Measurable, A=attainable, R=Realistic and T=Time bound
Doctor Gail
Matthews, a psychology professor at the Dominican University in California,
recently studied the art and science of goal setting.
She gathered
two hundred and sixty-seven people together — men and women from all over the
world, and from all walks of life, including entrepreneurs, educators,
healthcare professionals, artists, lawyers and bankers.
She divided the
participants into groups, according to who wrote down their goals and dreams,
and who didn’t...
And she
discovered that those who wrote down their goals and dreams on a regular basis achieved the goals.
In fact, she
found that you become 42% more likely
to achieve your goals and dreams, simply by writing them down on a regular
basis.
The
Gender Gap and Goal-Setting
One of studies
of Mark Murphy, called "The Gender Gap and Goal-Setting," found that
both men and women need to do a much better job of writing down their goals
(although men did perform a bit better than women on this issue). Study
participants were asked to rate the question “My goal is so vividly described
in written form (including pictures, photos, drawings, etc.) that could
literally show it to other people and they would know exactly what they were
trying to achieve.” Sadly, fewer than 20% of people said that their goals were
‘Always’ written down this vividly.
Vividly
describing your goals in written form is strongly associated with goal success,
and people who very vividly describe or picture their goals are anywhere from
1.2 to 1.4 times more likely to successfully accomplish their goals than people
who don’t. That’s a pretty big difference in goal achievement just from writing
your goals on a piece of paper.
So why does
writing your goals help? It’s an important thing to know; after all, it might
seem like a lot of extra work to write something down when you can just as
easily store it in your brain.
Writing things
down happens on two levels: external storage and encoding. External storage is
easy to explain: you’re storing the information contained in your goal in a
location (e.g. a piece of paper) that is very easy to access and review at any
time. You could post that paper in your office, on your refrigerator, etc. It
doesn’t take a neuroscientist to know you will remember something much better if
you’re staring at a visual cue (aka reminder) every single day.
But there’s
another deeper phenomenon happening: encoding. Encoding is the biological
process by which the things we perceive travel to our brain’s hippocampus where
they’re analyzed. From there, decisions are made about what gets stored in our
long-term memory and, in turn, what gets discarded. Writing improves that
encoding process. In other words, when you write it down it has a much greater
chance of being remembered.
Journey is more
important than the destination. It is rightly said by the Arthur Ashe, “Success
is a journey not a destination, the doing is often more important than the
outcome.”
World's
Greatest Goal Achiever
John Goddard[1],
one of the world's most famous anthropologists, explorers, and adventurers is
remembered as the world's greatest goal achiever and survivor of numerous
edge-of-death experiences through his 89 years of life. He documented his
adventures on film and showed them to thousands of youth and adults across the globe,
inspiring them to set and achieve goals. His motto was: To dare is to do - to
fear is to fail.
He had written
127 goals in early age and achieved almost 95% of them. Some of his goals
included from swimming across Nile river, climb Everest, visit Taj Mahal,
compose music, milk poisonous snake, live through 21 centuries, to visit moon
etc. The LA Times called him, "The real-life Indiana Jones" and one
of his expeditions, "the most amazing adventure of this generation."
For me GOALS mean:
Go, Out, And, Learn,
Success.
Recently I again
read ‘Goals’, the bestselling book of Brain
Tracy and fetched his following 12 points to my mind.
1. Have a desire
2. Believe
3. Write it down
4. Analyze your starting point
5. Determine why you want to excel in this
area
6. Set a deadline
7. Identify the obstacles
8. Determine the additional knowledge and
skill you need
9. Determine the people you’ll need
10. Make a plan
11. Visualize
12. Never give up.
I strongly suggest to apply these steps in
your life: be it your financial or career goals, or your family and
relationships goals.
Key
Takeaways
1. Journey
rather than destination increases your chances of success.
2. The smallest
change in your life is the part of your biggest success.
3. We have
power and privilege over other animals with respect to goals.
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