Setting goals can be a lot of fun. What if a goal helped you be better at something you already loved doing? What if achieving a goal made your relationships better? What if someone else benefited, rather than you? Can you imagine how your outlook on setting goals, and achieving them, would change with small successes that were fun?
In these 3 easy exercises we teach you how to set goals that can increase your business, give you new motivation for setting goals you can achieve, and send you on the path to success as an entrepreneur.
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Exercise #1: Setting goals you can achieve
In this exercise we learn the process of achieving goals can be fun and exciting. You start by thinking about goals differently. Everyone has weight goals, exercise goals, etc. — year in year out — and they’ve become almost a caricature of themselves, ergo, the goals you’ll never succeed at. In this exercise we set goals that are manageable, achievable, and fun.
Exercise #2: Setting SMART goals
The “SMART” goal system is a simple system to help you set goals, keep them and make them come true. Rather than making vague statements about goals, such as, “I’m going to grow my business”, you make positive, measurable, definitive declarations about your goals. With a smart goal you would say, “I’m going increase my business sales in the next 6 months by $2,000 per month”. What a smart goal!
Exercise #3: Testing your goals before you set them into action
In this exercise we give you criteria to determine how important each goal is to you, where a goal might trip you up, whether or not your goal is realistic and how it fits within your business and your lifestyle. You refine your goals against a specific set of questions designed to evaluate them against priorities, lifestyle and challenges you might encounter along the way to achieving your goals.
Theresa Bradley-Banta, co-creator of bigfishtopdogs.com, is a musician, award winning graphic artist, blogger and owner of multiple businesses. Follow me on twitter @bigfishtopdogs. Find us on Facebook. Connect at Linkedin.
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