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to the goals that you’ll try your best to achieve but which aren’t the top priority.</p><p id="c533">Number 3 is for goals that are less of a priority — it would be good to achieve them in the coming month but it wouldn’t be a disaster if they were left until the following month.</p><p id="4157">Don’t prioritize any lower than 3, otherwise you risk making the whole process more complicated than it has to be. If you prefer, you can limit your prioritizing to just 1 and 2.</p><h2 id="2fef">4. Fix Weekly Goals</h2><p id="1053">After you’ve set and prioritized your monthly goals, write two lists of work and personal goals for the week ahead.</p><p id="8898">To do this, set some smaller goals that will lead you towards achieving the highest priority monthly goals by the end of the month.</p><p id="2639">Give these weekly goals a priority of 1. Then repeat the exercise with the monthly goals marked “2” and “3”.</p><h2 id="88ce">5. Motivate Yourself to Achieve Your Goals</h2><p id="2c74">During the week, look at your list of goals often and cross each one off the list as soon as you achieve it.</p><p id="3fe1">This’ll give you an instant feeling of satisfaction and motivate you to move onto the next goal.</p><p id="f9d5">If you like, you can break the weekly goals down into daily goals but this isn’t necessary and may be too time consuming.</p><h2 id="3b1f">6. Review Your Goals Each Week</h2><p id="9d3c">At the end of the first week, review your progress and set goals for the second week, based on your overall monthly goals and your progress in the first week.</p><p id="1a8f">If there are any top priority goals that haven’t been crossed off your list in the first week, transfer them to the second week without judging yourself.</p><p id="20b5">If you didn’t manage to accomplish all your top priority goals in the first week, it doesn’t mean you should give up.</p><p id="3550"><b>The secret of high achievement is to consistently persevere rather than give up at the first hurdle.</b></p><p id="dea1">Repeat this process for each week of the month. You’ll find that you achieve more in some weeks than in others. Don’t be discouraged by this. Just continue working towards each goal.</p><p id="cef4">Sometimes unexpected things will happen that will take you away from your goals. Don’t worry about this. Just return to your goals as soon as you can.</p><h2 id="ffa3">7. Review Your Goals Every Month</h2><p id="e1c4">On the last weekend of the month, review your progress over the past month.</p><p id="3739">Did you accomplish

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more or less than you expected? Did you enjoy working towards some goals and avoid others?</p><p id="2a29">Did you feel energized and motivated by goal-setting or did you feel a failure because you didn’t achieve everything on your list?</p><p id="ff0d">If you achieved less than you expected to, perhaps you set yourself too many goals.</p><p id="919a">Try setting fewer goals next month and see if you feel the satisfaction that comes with achieving most of what you set out to.</p><p id="a229">If there were some goals that you avoided, listen to what this is telling you about yourself. It could mean that it would be a good idea to change your job or find extra help with your business, for example.</p><p id="363f">If you felt discouraged because you didn’t achieve everything on your list, continue with setting goals and remember that it’s an ongoing process.</p><p id="f8f7">The goals you don’t achieve in one month can easily be transferred to the next month. We all have limited time for working towards our goals, and not achieving some of your goals doesn’t mean that you’ve failed in any way.</p><h2 id="4936">8. Adjust Your Goals</h2><p id="7b1d">Look at all the goals that you didn’t achieve in the previous month and decide whether you’d like to transfer, change or let go of them.</p><p id="d7f3">If you’d still like to achieve one of your original goals, just transfer it to next month’s list.</p><p id="6338">If there was a specific reason for not reaching a certain goal in the previous month, you could change that goal so that it’ll be easier to achieve this month.</p><p id="e3ec">So, if you haven’t achieved a goal because you don’t enjoy doing the work required, consider outsourcing it to someone who specializes in this kind of work.</p><p id="40c8">If, however, you’ve realized that a goal has become unimportant for you, just let it go without feeling guilty.</p><p id="5338">You’ll waste time and energy clinging to goals that are not a priority or which take up too much of your time to be worthwhile at this point in your life.</p><h2 id="8ee5">Conclusion</h2><p id="5778">Repeat this goal-setting exercise each month for a year and you’ll be amazed by how productive and well-rounded your life becomes.</p><p id="7bb3">At the end of the year, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the ways your goal setting has prompted you to change your life for the better and <a href="https://readmedium.com/how-to-create-your-ideal-life-one-step-at-a-time-23b2498fe294">move in the direction of your dreams.</a></p></article></body>

Achieve Success with Quick and Easy Goal Setting

Take Positive Steps Towards Your Goals

Do you feel as if you’re drifting through life without ever achieving anything?

Do you often make excuses for not taking positive steps towards a long-term goal?

If so, try taking these eight small steps to setting and achieving monthly goals in all areas of your life. You’ll need just one hour a month.

1. Choose Your Tools

If you like to write down your goals, buy a hardback notebook or journal for this purpose.

If you prefer to use a laptop or smartphone, create a new folder for your goals.

2. Set Monthly Goals

During the last weekend of every month, set aside one hour to write down your goals for the next month.

Write “Work Goals” at the top of a blank page, then list all the things you’d like to achieve at work in the coming month. If you run your own business, write down your business goals.

Just jot down the goals as they come into your head without putting them into any particular order at this point.

Once you’ve finished writing your work goals, put the heading “Personal Goals” at the top of another page and write down all your personal goals for the month ahead.

In this category, include everything you’d like to achieve outside work, such as goals relating to:

· relationships with family members and friends

· hobbies and interests

· exercise

· personal development

· educational and general interest courses.

3. Prioritize Your Goals

After you’ve written down all your goals, look at them again and prioritize them. Put a number by the side of each goal to indicate how much of a priority it is to achieve that goal in the month ahead.

So, the goals that are your highest priority are given a number 1.

Put a number 2 next to the goals that you’ll try your best to achieve but which aren’t the top priority.

Number 3 is for goals that are less of a priority — it would be good to achieve them in the coming month but it wouldn’t be a disaster if they were left until the following month.

Don’t prioritize any lower than 3, otherwise you risk making the whole process more complicated than it has to be. If you prefer, you can limit your prioritizing to just 1 and 2.

4. Fix Weekly Goals

After you’ve set and prioritized your monthly goals, write two lists of work and personal goals for the week ahead.

To do this, set some smaller goals that will lead you towards achieving the highest priority monthly goals by the end of the month.

Give these weekly goals a priority of 1. Then repeat the exercise with the monthly goals marked “2” and “3”.

5. Motivate Yourself to Achieve Your Goals

During the week, look at your list of goals often and cross each one off the list as soon as you achieve it.

This’ll give you an instant feeling of satisfaction and motivate you to move onto the next goal.

If you like, you can break the weekly goals down into daily goals but this isn’t necessary and may be too time consuming.

6. Review Your Goals Each Week

At the end of the first week, review your progress and set goals for the second week, based on your overall monthly goals and your progress in the first week.

If there are any top priority goals that haven’t been crossed off your list in the first week, transfer them to the second week without judging yourself.

If you didn’t manage to accomplish all your top priority goals in the first week, it doesn’t mean you should give up.

The secret of high achievement is to consistently persevere rather than give up at the first hurdle.

Repeat this process for each week of the month. You’ll find that you achieve more in some weeks than in others. Don’t be discouraged by this. Just continue working towards each goal.

Sometimes unexpected things will happen that will take you away from your goals. Don’t worry about this. Just return to your goals as soon as you can.

7. Review Your Goals Every Month

On the last weekend of the month, review your progress over the past month.

Did you accomplish more or less than you expected? Did you enjoy working towards some goals and avoid others?

Did you feel energized and motivated by goal-setting or did you feel a failure because you didn’t achieve everything on your list?

If you achieved less than you expected to, perhaps you set yourself too many goals.

Try setting fewer goals next month and see if you feel the satisfaction that comes with achieving most of what you set out to.

If there were some goals that you avoided, listen to what this is telling you about yourself. It could mean that it would be a good idea to change your job or find extra help with your business, for example.

If you felt discouraged because you didn’t achieve everything on your list, continue with setting goals and remember that it’s an ongoing process.

The goals you don’t achieve in one month can easily be transferred to the next month. We all have limited time for working towards our goals, and not achieving some of your goals doesn’t mean that you’ve failed in any way.

8. Adjust Your Goals

Look at all the goals that you didn’t achieve in the previous month and decide whether you’d like to transfer, change or let go of them.

If you’d still like to achieve one of your original goals, just transfer it to next month’s list.

If there was a specific reason for not reaching a certain goal in the previous month, you could change that goal so that it’ll be easier to achieve this month.

So, if you haven’t achieved a goal because you don’t enjoy doing the work required, consider outsourcing it to someone who specializes in this kind of work.

If, however, you’ve realized that a goal has become unimportant for you, just let it go without feeling guilty.

You’ll waste time and energy clinging to goals that are not a priority or which take up too much of your time to be worthwhile at this point in your life.

Conclusion

Repeat this goal-setting exercise each month for a year and you’ll be amazed by how productive and well-rounded your life becomes.

At the end of the year, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the ways your goal setting has prompted you to change your life for the better and move in the direction of your dreams.