We all want to achieve our dreams but the biggest mistake most people make is not planning out the specifics of what they need to do and goal setting is just that, a plan of action for you to follow. Without this it makes it very hard to find meaning, purpose or even inspiration with your efforts each day.

It will be very hard to find the motivation when you have no clue of where you are going or why you want to go there in the first place. The attitude and your behaviors you have towards something will be the reason you have passion to accomplish it completely. Goals are stepping stones to a bigger cause in life and should be defined clear enough to help us along our journey.

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Having Only Long Term Goals

One of the biggest reasons why most people do not accomplish their goals is because they ONLY set long term or BIG goals. It is a positive to have huge ambition and to dream big but you need to set up the first steps to be able to get to those bigger ones.

When we only have the big goals in front of us to accomplish, it will discourage us on a day to day basis because we have no reward until we fulfill that big goal. It will be very dissatisfying when it has been years and we still have not even accomplished the only goal(s) we set out for ourselves. The motivation will drop versus when we have smaller goals also, we continuously have recognition that we are doing a great job by feeling accomplished in completing the short term goals. It gives us influence to continue when we have a reward to push forward always.

The other very important reason is because with a big goal we have no idea of the initial steps to take to be able to even get to there. We need smaller goals to take the first steps in where we need to go in order to accomplish the long ones. This will help us focus on one goal at a time and build on each success to push further.

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Belief

Having a complete belief that you will accomplish your goal is such a valuable aspect in achieving what you set out to finish. If you for any reason to believe that what you are doing cannot be done, then your brain will find all the reasons to quit along the way.

What we can do to prevent this from happening is to embrace the possible challenges we may face with our goals and not discourage them. However, constantly filling yourself with ideas that will doubt the belief that it can be completed will definitely stop you along the way. Knowing what we could face and having the complete faith that it will be overcome is how we will knock out anything we come to face with.

How You Word Goals

Having goals that are not specific enough will make it tougher for you to actually find the steps to accomplish it. Another wording problem is when you write goals as something to avoid rather than what you want to work towards.

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Not having enough details of how you should tackle each goal will bring down your productivity and thus motivation to continue on your path. If you have no clarity on what you should be doing, you will be super discouraged and eventually give up to go focus on something simpler that you can grasp in your mind.

Writing goals of what you should not do will be another discouraging way to accomplish what you need to. You want to be an optimist and have goals that are positive sounding with the outcome to match. This will give you complete motivation in the way you think of everything you do.

Results

Measuring the progress of how far you have come can often be motivating or discouraging, depending on how you look at it. Those who do not know how to measure the their work progress are almost doomed to fail.

Many people can be disillusioned by monetary profits to prove the results they are attaining or by only completing the long term goal they set for themselves. Measuring results should just be a gauge that you are on the right track to your long term results. If you are on the right pathway, this should be very encouraging and positive!! Improve any results you have had currently by setting new targets and those should be the motivation to feel optimistic of where you are currently.

Wasting time on irrelevant thoughts of not being as "accomplished" as you think you should be will only deter you from actually getting to where you want. Setting new small term goals all the time will help give you the recognition and reward of doing well, while still continuing on the path of your long term goal.