🌳 How to Set Goals That You Can Accomplish

QUOTE OF THE DAY

In simple terms, you may not realise it but your behaviour is very consistent across your life and behind the mask how you manage most situations, challenges or other experiences in your life is probably a good indication of how you handle almost all of the occurrences in your life.

Why should you set goals?

Top-level athletes, successful businesspeople and achievers in all fields all set goals. Setting goals gives you long-term vision and short-term motivation. It focuses on your acquisition of knowledge and helps you to organize your time and your resources so that you can make the most of your life.

By setting sharp, clearly defined goals, you can measure and take pride in the achievement of those goals, and you'll see forward progress in what might previously have seemed a long pointless grind. You will also raise your self-confidence, as you recognize your own ability and competence in achieving the goals that you've set.

Goal setting should be something that is a no-brainer. Breaking it down to basics, if you are a human that wants to achieve something you need to set your goals, you need to have a destination in which you can create a route otherwise you just have a never-ending map.

The method

There are many different methods of setting goals, some in the far distant and some for the near future but the one important thing is to make sure you stick with your end goals. So many change what they want as an end result whilst in the process of working towards it but ultimately this is just delaying the outcome. It’s similar to if you were at a restaurant and you kept asking the chef to change your order as it was taking a while to get to you.

This can be difficult however as sometimes you need to adapt and change your goals as they aren’t fitted to your current situation like they used to be. The way to tackle this is to make your goals much more unrelated to your current path. Say for example you want to end up being an actor. Now you could either set goals for the exact movie you want to play in or the exact actors you want to work with but if you’re not in control of that outcome and there’s a high likelihood of that outcome changing you’re only going to be lying to yourself when you end up changing the result to you want.

Instead, you could make your goals more unrelated such as 'act in x amount of movies’ or ‘walk the red carpet by the age of x’. Doing it this way means the vehicle you take is different but it’s always going to reach the end destination.

Leave room for adaptation

Make sure you leave room for adaptation with your goals. The best way to do this is to set your goals in chunks at a time such as in 3-month blocks. The problem is, if you set goals a year in advance no one knows what could happen in a year’s time - your entire vision may change and then you end up being unloyal to your goals and to yourself.

Setting them in 3-month intervals means that you can adapt to where you are, who knows, you may be much further ahead in 3 months than you anticipated and therefore you can set your next 3-month goals accordingly based on where you’re currently at not where you assumed you would be at 6 months ago.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

Start goal setting, get a piece of paper and work backwards, first state the goal you want to achieve, then break down the ‘how’. What actionable steps do you need to take to get closer towards your goals?

TAKEAWAYS:

Be prepared to have to take a different vehicle on your journey.

BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The book of the week is The Psychology Of Money by Morgan Housel, referred to as ‘The book of Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness’. Its a book about your mind, and how it thinks about money, savings, expenditure and investments. A must-read if you want to enhance your understanding of money (and enhance the amount of it you have!) Check it out HERE

CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The creator of the week is @Jatznaran, a UK-based finance creator sharing tips on money, business, investing, and also content around general self-improvement. He shares tips, tricks and his experience as an entrepreneur whilst teaching you how to become one yourself. Check him out HERE

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

How you do something is how you do everything.

Did you like this email?! Tell us what you think by replying to this email, any feedback helps us to improve your experience and make The Kaizen better.

The Kaizen is now offering chat support. If you have any problems, Issues or queries or just want to have a chat and some advice from our team, reply to this email and we will get back to you when we can (: