Goal Building - One Brick At A Time...


Everyone in business searches for ways to improve things and dreams of realizing untapped potential. We all set these ideal scenarios - these targets of how great our business and life can be. We undertake to achieve these ideals and often end up falling short - miserably. Part of the problem is that we measure our progress incorrectly.

Separating Goals from Ideals!

Ideals serve to: help us set goals, motivate, and withstand hardships - all positive; one negative - these are mental constructs - like horizons - the closer you get the further away they seem!

Goals are achievable by definition. They have to be realizable, incremental, and REAL!

So How Do We Measure Progress?

Always measure from where YOU have come from - not someone else. Use the achievement of a current goal set the stage for the achievement of the next one - use that confidence, sense of achievement and satisfaction to your advantage.

Set ideals that are bigger than yourself - distinguish between your goals and your ideals. You should never measure by ideals for this means pre-destined failure - it's like the odds of winning a lottery, except a whole lot more frustrating because you think that you should be in control.

Remember goals should be SMART

S - Specific M - Measurable A - Achievable R - Realistic T - Timely

Bottom Line?

Progress NOT Perfection, is what we should all be striving for!

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