Goal-setting is fantastic, only when you do it correctly.
Setting goals is one of the most compelling devices to stimulate your achievement. It is not a one-time thing to enumerate your dreams and wait for Santa Claus to hang you the gifts.
Goal setting is only the opening tool of the success method.Â
The real magic happens when you put your full focus and steady action in place. And yes, there are no shortcuts. You still need to work hard and hustle till you succeed.
However, make sure you set realistic goals from Day 1; here are three misconceptions that most people make that repeal goal setting power.
 #1: “I Want… “
A lot of success gurus ignored this.
When you say, “I want to earn more money, I want to lose weight, or I want to find true love.”
The wording “I want” indicates the fact that you don’t possess it. When you reiterate,” I want this, I like that,” every day, you are merely quoting the reality of your need, rarity, or insufficiency.
Where focus works, energy continues.
Rather than reiterating what you don’t possess, you should write as if you own the resources. Omit out the words that are asserting the obvious.
#2: Too Vague
Our intuition works like Google’s search engine.
Vague search terms provide inadequate results. Precise, clear search terms generate targeted specific results.
So do not set objectives like “I want to go on a vacation.” Instead, it would help if you wrote down as specified as possible like “Take a 5-days, a first-class trip to the Maldives with (can be your friend, partner, parents or whoever you want to go on a journey with.
Without specificity, you cannot produce heartfelt feelings of how wonderful it will be when you accomplish that. Thus you won’t have enough urge to follow through until you succeed.
 #3: No Deadlines
Deadlines are the final call-to-action for us.
Humans tend to delay things until the last minute; this occurs whether you are a student or a billion-dollar company owner.
Deadlines infuse necessity to force you to take action now.
So instead of leaving out a particular date when you need to hit your target, you must write things like “Save $500,000 in my bank account by 23rd of December 2022”.
Once you have set these significant objectives, you will need to break them down into smaller, manageable quarterly, monthly or weekly goals.
What`s important is, no matter how huge or small your goals are, they must be set in specific details with deadlines and composed as if you have the resources to accomplish them.
