How to set your goals -step by step

people who are successful today were once starters just like you and I. Most of them succeeded by the product of good goal setting.

In this post we will cover two important sub topics, which are:

1. How to set your goals
2. Procedures to setting a successful goals
   

It is clear and simple that people do succeed with or without goal settings, but without goal setting the chances of succeeding is very poor and uncertain. However, as and entrepreneur uncertainty will never help you, as most of the people who succeed without goals setting they oftentimes do not plan for it.

For instance

Mr. A's monthly income is 500 dollars while that of Mr. B is 300 dollars. Mr. A has no plans to how he spend his money. He just spend them as soon as they come. If not all the money he spend, just a little part of it goes to his savings and still, sometimes, he drew from his savings to spend. He had his own goal of building a house one day, probably in years to come. But on Mr. B's side, he had his own goal of building a 5,000 dollars house in five years time from his savings. He break his goal into raising 1,000 dollars every year and 100 dollars every month from his 300 dollars monthly income to raise up the 5,000 dollars at the end of the five years. After five years Mr. B was abled to build his 5,000 dollars house with his little earnings compare to Mr. A's earnings, but Mr. A was not able to build any despite his higher income.

From the above example you find that, it doesn't matter whether you have your goals or not, if they are not SMART they may still mean like having no goals at all. If Mr. A build the house it will be only by chance which it's possibility is very poor.

How to set your goals

Your goals need to be SMART in order to be achieved

S - SPECIFIC

M - MEASURABLE

A - ACHIEVABLE

R - REALISTIC

T - TIME FACTOR

SPECIFIC

In setting up your goals you need to specify what you really want to achieve. Don't complicate your goals in to different or multiple outcome or in a way that someone reading it may not really understand what your goals are.

When your goals are specific you will also have confidence in goin after them. Your mind will be at peace knowing certainly what to do now and next.

MEASURABLE

Let your goals be measured according to your ability and time. Setting difficult goals because of your high dreams may not help.

Let it be measured like "I will save 500 dollars this year for my Christmas, 45 dollars every month and 1.5 dollars every day from my trade."

ACHIEVABLE

Your goal should be some thing that is possibly achievable and withing reachable state.

Some goals like "Tomorrow I want to go to Yola and have a deal signed with Zami company and come back. Still, go to Mubi and make supplies. I will in the afternoon supervise the ongoing project with the special ink..." These goals are not in achievable order.

Your goals should be within your ability. Even if they may be difficult but let them be achievable.

REALISTIC

Your goals should be realistic in nature. Some thing that can be proved critically, without doubts.

You have to face reality when setting your goals. You have to put your confidence in the goals you have set, but nevertheless, accepting reality is good. You have to admit that people either succeed or fail in life and you may face any of the two in one way or the other.

In some goals that may include someone's effort or commitment to be achieved, such as contractual goals you need to plan well. Think of both the positive and negative outcomes and plan how to minimize the negative outcomes usually with plan A, plan B, plan C etc.

TIME FACTOR

Time to implement what you have plan is necessary and important to achieving those plans.

Give your self a good time to implement your goals. Don't expect instant gratification or short time success. Some goals need a good time to plan for and implement them.

Procedures to setting a successful goals.

1. Determine what you want to achieve.
2. Search to know more about what you want to achieve.
3. Know their requirements: time, finance, effort, individual or team work, legal requirements etc.
4. Set it into SMART goals. Long time and short time goals.
5. Split them in to daily, weekly, monthly activities/tasks to be performed.
6. Implement it. Work on your activities in number 5 above.
7. Evaluate your activities and achievements of number 6 above
8. Make relevant adjustment to your findings in number 7 above
9. Make sure that you achieve your short time goals and then your long time goals.

NB One of the important things to note to achieving your goals is starting to work on achieving them and the best time to start is now!