You need goals if your want to become successful. Why?

It’s a simple reason, really…

• Without goals, how do you know if you have attained success? 
• Would you even know what constitutes success?

Your Goals And Success

It is easy enough to say that being successful means having a multi-million dollar home, earning a 6-figure income, having a big bank account, having a vacation home in the sunny Caribbean, having your choice of cars, and enjoying all the other obvious benefits of wealth. 

This is the problem, however. Is wealth synonymous to success? For most people, this is probably the case. The question is: is it equally true in your case?

Success can take many forms and guises. There are people to whom success means financial independence or the freedom from worrying about it. Although wealthy people will perhaps rank high in this type of success, people who know how to earn money and are confident about getting some when they need it will also qualify.

People who live simply and do not need the things that money can buy, moreover, can also be deemed successful in that case.

On the other hand, there are people to whom success is having a healthy, loving family or honor in their profession. There are journalists whose notion of success is getting the Pulitzer or some such awards.

The above discussion illustrates three things: wealth is not a prerequisite to success, people from different stations and with different abilities can be equally successful depending on their criteria of success, and success means different things to different people. 

All these things considered, you really should have your own goals if you want to succeed. Exactly what kind of success do you want to attain – at what field of endeavor do you wish to succeed?

Your goals for success will be the tangible manifestations – the benchmarks, if you will – of the kind of success that you want and will work to achieve. They will also guide you on your journey to success.

By comparing what you are doing to what you want to achieve (your goals), you can easily ascertain whether your present activities are taking you nearer to success or are taking you farther away from your goals.

Types of Goals You Can Set

The above illustrates that goal setting is very relevant to success. At this point, you should remember that goals vary by magnitude. Specifically, there are…

• Long-Term Goals,
• Medium-Term Goals
• Short-Term Goals

The long-term goals are your overarching goals. In fact, you can set the mother of all goals – your ultimate ambition, if you will.

This will be more in the league of a vision – for instance, you can specify that you intend to become the owner of a successful accountancy firm 25 years from now. Other long term goals that will naturally accompany this are your intended reach, your planned company’s size, etc.

The medium-term goals are things that you intend to achieve in 5, 10 or 15 years’ time.  These, naturally, should lead to your long-term goal/s.

The short-term goals, on the other hand, should be the specific steps that you will need to accomplish your medium-term goals and, indirectly, your long-term goals.

One way or another, we all want to succeed at something – don’t we?

The only thing, which eludes most of us, is the right way of achieving it. As such, you see many people longing for a “get-successful-quick scheme”.

Now everyone realizes that success takes action and effort. However, many people just don’t believe themselves capable of sustaining the amount of effort required, and end up going back to wishing and hoping that Lady Luck will give a nod in their direction.

Your Determination Is Important To Your Success

If you let any self doubts get the better of you, then you may not be as determined to succeed as you think. If this is the case, then we may even find it hard to succeed.

• Do you think a successful person has never had cause to question his or her own abilities?
• Do you think successful people never have a moment of self doubt in their lives?

You may be mistaken for thinking this way.

What they did have, however, is unflagging determination to succeed. They wanted something and they were fully determined to get it. It was this determination to succeed and this unfaltering commitment to their goal that played a large part in their success.

It is your determination that will make you capable of achieving the seemingly impossible. It will not only give you single-mindedness of purpose, but also a positive outlook which is crucial to achieving success.

Charles Schwab Is A Fine Example Of This

As you probably know, Charles Schwab is one of the wealthiest and most successful businessmen in the United States. What you probably don’t know, however, is that Charles Schwab had to deal with dyslexia when he was young.

Imagine the difficulties of going to school when you have dyslexia, how you would be ridiculed and maybe even branded as an idiot. Charles Schwab, however, apparently overcame these considerable difficulties for he managed to graduate from Stanford University, is CEO of his own corporation, and has a net worth of more than five billion dollars.

To have achieved all these, Charles Schwab had to have battled great odds. While his contemporaries in school were absorbing concepts and lessons as fast as they were being taught, Schwab also had to exert extra effort into reading the textbooks and understanding his letters.

Such difficulties would have surely crushed and defeated a less determined man or woman, but Schwab persevered because he was obviously determined to overcome his learning difficulties and succeed.

Are You Determined To Succeed?

At this point, you should now be asking yourself if you have the same commitment to succeeding. If you are easily discouraged and are prone to giving up when the going gets tough, then you should seriously question your determination to succeed.

Perhaps, you should ask yourself, if the goal you have set for yourself is truly what you want.

As a means of increasing your determination, you should list down your life’s goals. If you want success, what shape do you want this success to take? List down all of the things you want to accomplish and achieve.

Think about them in great detail…

By doing this simple exercise, you can constantly reinforce your commitment and keep your determination to succeed alive.

Jack Canfield talks about how to accelerate your end results and get real clear about what you want and desire. We don’t have to know how we are going to get there, we just need to figure out where it is we want to go.

Have you ever wanted to accomplish a task but just did not know, how or when to get started?

Maybe you have even set goals for yourself in the past but couldn’t figure out the right actions to take? Or you managed to set your goal and then started taking action – but nothing happened! 

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