Personal Goal Setting
How would you measure success? What does success mean to you – in your personal life? In your professional life? Being able to answer this question is a first step in setting goals. Get a clear, personal, definition of success and then set goals that support that picture.
- Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands.
Earl Nightingale
Good goal setting works because they give us direction, motivation, discipline sub-conscious activation (our sub-conscious mind will be engaged), confidence, and most importantly, the ability to overcome adversity. But, we must be willing to act with positive, powerful conscious intent and exercise a bit of personal discipline.
So take some time and answer a few basic questions:
· What do I want out of life?
· What is my definition of success?
· Where will I be in 5, 10, 15 years, both personally and professionally?
· What single thing do I want to be remembered for at work?
· What is the most important legacy I can leave to my family, friends and associates?
Then build yourself a roadmap on how to get there. Make sure that you set goals that are specific, measurable, achievable (smaller steps at first), relevant, and have a set timeframe If you take time to set goals and then work towards them you will have set yourself up for success – no matter how you define it.
- Kristen Cheyney, BAO Technical Delivery Lead for IBM Global Business Services