8 Steps To Make Your Goals A Reality

Many of us make New Year Resolutions that we never keep, but you do not have to wait until the beginning of the year to set a new goals. These are the 8 steps that you need to implement into your own life if you really want to achieve your goals.

8 Steps To Make Your Goals a Reality

1. Write it down- Writing down a goal is very important, because it helps you to focus on that goal.

It is also good to put your goals somewhere that you can look at them every day. Some people only need to write their goals down, while others need to see a picture of their goals every day.

Once I write a goal down, and have it fixed in my mind...that is all I need to stay focused. Every one is different but the least you should do is write your goals down.

2. Be Specific- Not long ago I was nearly $200,000 in debt. There is nothing that I wanted more than to get rid of that debt.

I set a goal at the beginning of the year to get out of debt by the end of the year, but I did not know how I would make it happen. I ended up filing for bankruptcy by the end of the year.

I accomplished my goal but I did not plan to file for bankruptcy. If you do not write down specifically how you plan to achieve your goal, you might accomplish it, but not in the most favorable manner.

3. Be Thankful- Although you may strive for a better life, it is important to be thankful for what you already have.

For example, I remember when the gas prices sky-rocketed not long ago. I was driving an old gas-guzzling pick up truck at the time.

I cursed that pick-up truck every time I had to put gas in it. I could not focus on anything else, but getting a small economical gas-saving car.

I eventually got my car, but not before my truck broke down and I had to walk for two months. Be thankful for what you already have.

4. Make your goals a priority- If you expect to achieve your goals, you must make them a priority in your life. We may say our goals are a priority, but our actions speak louder than our words.

Whatever you spend the majority of your time doing and thinking about is your priority. So if that thing is not your goal, do not lie to yourself and say that your goal is a priority, when your actions say otherwise.

5. Take the right actions- If you want to achieve your goals, it is not only important to take action, but you must take the right actions.

How do we know what the right actions are? The first action that you need to take is to ask yourself specifically how are you going to achieve your goals.

Next find someone who is already where you want to be and then learn how they did it, and model them. Map out your plan all of the way down to the specific daily actions that you need to take.

Then take those action steps consistently and persistently until you reach your goal.

6. Stop making excuses- Excuses seem so harmless and logical, but we must recognize them for what they really are. Excuses are a powerful enemy to your success.

It is so easy to make an excuse and justify them, but if we habitually make excuses, we will look up years later and realize that we never accomplished our goals. We will blame anything or anybody else anybody for our failure, without even realizing that the real reason was our own excuses.

7. Do a self -analysis- It is important to know your own strengths and weaknesses so that you can recognize areas where you need to improve or get help.

Also you want to check your results on a regular basis to make sure you stay on track to reaching your goal.

8. Eliminate distractions- Distractions take away from our focus, and it is important eliminate them if we want to make our goals a reality. Some distractions are easier to eliminate than others.

If you have a person in your life that is making it difficult to achieve your goals, part of taking the right actions may be to improve your own personality and communication skills, so that you are able to influence that person to become cooperative in helping you to achieve your goals.

This is called taking complete responsibility. When you blame someone or something else for your failures you give that person or thing so much power in your life.

On the other hand, if you take complete responsibility for the results in your own life, you will realize that you need to constantly work on yourself, so that your influence will grow over the people and things in your life.

I am not just repeating something that I read in a book. I know this stuff works based on my own experiences, and if you apply these 8 steps in your life you will start to move towards making your goals a reality also.

Much Success,