Once I already wrote an article on my blog about determination. But now I wanted to talk about it again and in more detail.
True, at first I want to share with you one secret – all people on Earth already know how to set goals and achieve them. We began to do this when someone was 5 years old, and to someone at that age, children go to school, whose desire to grow up and get school education. And their goal is to obtain a certificate.
And how do we get it? Gradually, we move in small steps according to the curriculum and from year to year we increase the level of our development. That is, in school education, and in any other, we clearly go according to the planned plan and, ultimately, achieve the desired result.
Undoubtedly, we did not make this plan ourselves. For us and our children, teachers do this. But it is thanks to him that we graduate the school on time and with a certificate in hand.
Also occurs with the receipt of higher education. We show a desire and go to study, moving to the goal for 5 years.
How to set a goal?
Above in the text, you probably noticed that I call the education a desire, and I call the goal a certificate or diploma. Perhaps one of you will object to me, and will say that getting an education is the goal. But it is precisely because of this belief that people do not achieve the desired result.
What is a goal?
The goal is something specific, facts, not emotions. For example, I can call myself a doctor? No, I can’t. Why? Because I don’t have a doctor’s diploma. But when I get it, I can safely call myself a doctor, and society will agree with me. It turns out that to become a doctor, you need to get a doctor’s diploma. Therefore, my goal is to get a diploma.
Now you understand what is the difference between desires and the goal?
How to achieve a goal?
To eat an elephant, it needs to be eaten in pieces. Surely you have already heard about it. But just how they did not try to eat it, it doesn’t work out to the last piece. Is it true?
You, most likely, have already guessed why this happened:
Firstly, because she was a detailed plan;
Secondly, there was no time and final result;
Thirdly, there was no encouragement.
Plan
In order to achieve the goal, you need to build a very detailed plan. Moreover, there should be three plans:
A plan for a year, divided into months and weeks – where it is spelled out what and when to do.
A plan for a week by day – where it will be written that, for example, on Wednesday you need to call the customer and clarify the details, and make half the order on Thursday.
Plan for the day – where the list of cases will be written for today.
How to lead such a plan?
Such a plan can be conducted both in electronic form and in paper. I tried to do so and so. And immediately say that the paper option is much better. The sheet with the plan always hangs before the eyes and it is clearly visible on it what has already been done and how much more is left. At the end of the article I will show my plan for October.
And the list of cases today must be compiled every day and either print or write in a notebook. I use a notebook that I advise you.
Dates and results
The goal should always have its own term. You should not just try to achieve it without specific frames. This will only lead to the fact that you will leave aside and in vain to waste your energy.
Let’s get back to education again. We are given 5 years to receive a diploma until we fulfill all the steps prescribed in the curriculum, we will not be able to get a diploma.
For personal purpose, everything is the same – you need to perform certain steps that will lead us to a certain result.
For the deadline you need to prescribe the result. For example, by the end of the week you want to get 5 executed orders. To do this, you need to execute 1 order every day. At first glance, it seems to be a trifle, why prescribe it? But in fact, it is from such trifles that the goal is achieved.
Promotion
For each result that you wanted to get and received yourself must be encouraged. Let it be a trifle, but a pleasant trifle.
For example, you planned to complete 5 orders in a week. You completed them and, accordingly, received a cash reward for this. So in order to get such results in the future, buy yourself what you want. It can be something of cosmetics for a woman, and something car for a man.
The promotion, by the way, should also be prescribed in the plan.
Which will jump into the outgoing train.
Reading articles on the Internet to achieve the goal, everyone in chorus is advised not to tell anyone that you are achieving some goal.
I will advise you the opposite and even more. Find an authoritative person for you and tell us what you are now achieving, and ask him to call you every week and ask if you have performed steps according to plan.
Directly choose a certain day with him when he calls you and ask about your successes.
What it will give? For example, you drove the bald all week. They completely forgot about the implementation of the plan and sit tea sit. But then you suddenly remembered that the day after tomorrow, dad/mom/uncle would call and ask: what did I do? And what will I tell them? Nothing?!
After such thoughts, you instantly stand up from the chair and run headlong to do business. That’s what it will give.
My plan for October
As can be seen from the picture, I divided the sheet into 4 parts, just for 4 weeks. Numbered them and prescribed dates. Every week she divided into 5 weekdays, into 2 lines “expected result” and “actual result” and painted another column.
One column touches the blog, and the other groups on social networks.
In every day for the first week, I prescribed what topic I will write an article on, and in the column for the group I prescribed how many people should be by the day.
I turn the work done with a red handle. I need this so that I see that I am not standing still, but move according to the plan.