There is little question that setting goals helps you accomplish more than not setting goals. It gives you a focus, forces you to at least begin thinking about a strategy or process to achieve those goals, and establishes a certain level of accountability with yourself and whoever you decide to share your goals with.For some people, that is enough: they set their goals, go to work, and in time achieve their goals. For others however, even the process of setting goals is very difficult and an area of procrastination. In addition, some people who are actually very productive and certainly not procrastinators, simply prefer to work on all their planning and goal setting right from the screen of their computer or PDA. If either of these is the case with you, then personal goal setting software might be worth considering.
Motion Beats Meditation.Any decent goals software will first guide you through a set of questions to determine your outcome followed almost immediately by action steps.It is the daily persistent actions that make your goal a reality. A decent goal setting program will have this built into the system. Not only the actions, but it will break the actions down into manageable chunks and guide you to schedule these actions in to your calendar,What You Measure Is What You Get. Not only will a goal setting software help you break down your goals into manageable actions. It will force you to track and measure the actions you take.
Just imagine how powerful it would be to have a weight loss goal and combine that with a software that tracks your weight loss on a weekly basis.That is what a good goals software program will do for you.Inside World, Outside Reality.The power of visualisation! Visualisation has been around for centuries.. it has even been said that the Egyptians, when royalty was born, would start work on their tomb. And on the walls they would put images of all the amazing things that they would want the person to achieve in his life.
They would have images of him being a great leader, winning wars, and building great cities.In the same way you want your goals to include images of all the great things you plan to achieve in your life.Now I warn you not all goal setting software will include a visualisation module. But it is something that you should consider when looking into a system. Some really good ones will even let you put in affirmations with the visualizations and add your own music.
Make It Easy.We all lead busy lives. And even though the importance of goals is known to everyone - most of us never get round to it.Because, most of the goal setting worksheets out there are way too complicated. And take days if not weeks to complete.And that is why the right goal setting software will not only cover off on the above 4 points but will make it easy to define, track and achieve your goals.
There are some people who are just perfect at setting goals and can do it easily and even follow through without too much effort. Then there are the rest of the people for whom goal setting is a challenge and one that is very difficult to begin let alone follow through on. For this group of people goal setting software may be their answer. Goal setting is something you engage in when you want to make a change.
They allow you to keep all your goal related activities, documentation and findings in one place, without the need for huge piles of hand written notes, lists and exercises. A good piece of goal setting software should act as your personal organiser, your to do list, and your personal journal.
When you set up a goal you are taking an effort to achieve something. This achievement or goal can be something short term or something that takes some time to achieve. A short term goal may be to change eating sweets and sugar filled items but to be an effective goal it has to have something specific you have to reach for. Just to write cut down on sugar doesn't do it. You have to set a goal that is quantifiable and measurable. So you would write down that you want to only eat a sweet or sugar filled candy on Saturday only. Then define it further with how much you will consume at one sitting or during the day.
For it to be effective it has to be reachable and be an improvement over what it was before. So if you plan to eat sugar all day Saturday then this is only a substitution for what you were consuming during the week and it is not a valid goal. Simply shifting the activity around is not setting a goal and achieving it. So in the case of reducing sugar consumption you would also need something to reach like to reduce your dress size by 1 size or to have a better body fat ratio. It has to be something that you can reach by taking the action.
Then you can log all of this information into your goal software program and use it as your crutch to keep in line with your goal achievement. This may be in the form of using steps that you have logged into the program and checking them off as you reach them. It could be used to give you words that encourage you as you go through each day. It can be used as a diary to log your thoughts as you progress toward your goal or even if you are digressing from your goal. It lets you write these things down so you can read them and act on them.
Motion Beats Meditation.Any decent goals software will first guide you through a set of questions to determine your outcome followed almost immediately by action steps.It is the daily persistent actions that make your goal a reality. A decent goal setting program will have this built into the system. Not only the actions, but it will break the actions down into manageable chunks and guide you to schedule these actions in to your calendar,What You Measure Is What You Get. Not only will a goal setting software help you break down your goals into manageable actions. It will force you to track and measure the actions you take.
Just imagine how powerful it would be to have a weight loss goal and combine that with a software that tracks your weight loss on a weekly basis.That is what a good goals software program will do for you.Inside World, Outside Reality.The power of visualisation! Visualisation has been around for centuries.. it has even been said that the Egyptians, when royalty was born, would start work on their tomb. And on the walls they would put images of all the amazing things that they would want the person to achieve in his life.
They would have images of him being a great leader, winning wars, and building great cities.In the same way you want your goals to include images of all the great things you plan to achieve in your life.Now I warn you not all goal setting software will include a visualisation module. But it is something that you should consider when looking into a system. Some really good ones will even let you put in affirmations with the visualizations and add your own music.
Make It Easy.We all lead busy lives. And even though the importance of goals is known to everyone - most of us never get round to it.Because, most of the goal setting worksheets out there are way too complicated. And take days if not weeks to complete.And that is why the right goal setting software will not only cover off on the above 4 points but will make it easy to define, track and achieve your goals.
There are some people who are just perfect at setting goals and can do it easily and even follow through without too much effort. Then there are the rest of the people for whom goal setting is a challenge and one that is very difficult to begin let alone follow through on. For this group of people goal setting software may be their answer. Goal setting is something you engage in when you want to make a change.
They allow you to keep all your goal related activities, documentation and findings in one place, without the need for huge piles of hand written notes, lists and exercises. A good piece of goal setting software should act as your personal organiser, your to do list, and your personal journal.
When you set up a goal you are taking an effort to achieve something. This achievement or goal can be something short term or something that takes some time to achieve. A short term goal may be to change eating sweets and sugar filled items but to be an effective goal it has to have something specific you have to reach for. Just to write cut down on sugar doesn't do it. You have to set a goal that is quantifiable and measurable. So you would write down that you want to only eat a sweet or sugar filled candy on Saturday only. Then define it further with how much you will consume at one sitting or during the day.
For it to be effective it has to be reachable and be an improvement over what it was before. So if you plan to eat sugar all day Saturday then this is only a substitution for what you were consuming during the week and it is not a valid goal. Simply shifting the activity around is not setting a goal and achieving it. So in the case of reducing sugar consumption you would also need something to reach like to reduce your dress size by 1 size or to have a better body fat ratio. It has to be something that you can reach by taking the action.
Then you can log all of this information into your goal software program and use it as your crutch to keep in line with your goal achievement. This may be in the form of using steps that you have logged into the program and checking them off as you reach them. It could be used to give you words that encourage you as you go through each day. It can be used as a diary to log your thoughts as you progress toward your goal or even if you are digressing from your goal. It lets you write these things down so you can read them and act on them.
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