The desire/needs in one’s life motivate to setup a goal and by achieving it the individual leads a happy and successful life. For instance, Hunger is inferred as aMotive, getting and eating food is a Goal. The important thing about goal is not where you were or where you are, but where you want to get. An individual can have a goal or number of goals in each stages of life.

Goal can be defined as ‘an intended outcome that requires action that satisfies individual needs’. Also can be a goal as “a dream with a deadline”. In other words, you define your dreams, and then come up with a time estimate of how long it will take for you to get there. The goal must be generated from individual’s own mind based on their needs, not by force of others.

INSPIRE Yourself to Reach Your Goals

I – Identify clearly what you want. “If you don’t know where it is you’re going, you’ll never get there.” People often don’t achieve goals because they don’t know what they want. One of the best ways to clearly identify what you want is to write it down. By the very act of writing down your goals you increase your chances of success.

N – Nuture your desires. Use your emotions to align yourself with your goals.

You can use various techniques to help you capture the energy of your emotions to propel you toward your goals.

One technique is visualization. Spend a few minutes every day sitting in a quite environment where you can picture your goal. Experience the feeling of having reached your goal

S – Support yourself. Ask anyone who has achieved anything and they will tell you they had help along the way. What’s the first thing award winners do at award shows? They pull out their thank you list of people who helped them achieve their goal.

Seek friends, family, professionals, books, and groups; whatever it is that can help you We all need help and that help is always available if we allow our selves to receive it.

P – Plan. This is where you work on the “how”. Things like scheduling, what tools we’ll use, how often we’ll workout, deadline for your goal, etc.

Process goals are very important in the planning stage. That is the purpose of the goal isn’t dependent on the outcome but rather the focus is on the “doing”.

I – Initiate action.. The next step is to take a step each day towards your goal. As the ancient Chinese proverb says, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Do not judge your actions; there are no big or small steps. Only steps. What might seem like a “small” step now could turn out to be huge later on.

R – Release your goal. Set your goal but do not hang onto to it too tightly. If we get too caught up on the goal it can become an anchor.

The pressure we put on ourselves to do something overwhelms us and undermines our success. You need just the right amount of pressure to move you out of you comfort zone but not enough to break you.

E – Evaluate/evolve/enjoy. Check back periodically to see how you’re doing.

Are you doing all the process goals you need to? Are you still passionate about your goal? You may decide your goal isn’t something you really wanted to pursue and choose a more appropriate goal. Or you may achieve it. Either way you’ll be happier for it.

Goal setting is an important method of:

• Deciding what is important for you to achieve in your life;

• Separating what is important from what is irrelevant, or a distraction;

• Building your self-confidence, based on successful achievement of goals

Thus, achieving goals is not merely a matter of setting them. It is also crucial to decide how important they are to you. You must also determine what price you are willing to pay to achieve them. The key is to make goals congruent with your life; set goals in areas that you actually WANT to be increasingly important to you.

“What the mind of Man can conceive and believe, it can achieve”