There is an extra ordinary version of any ordinary thing. Whatever you are doing today there is someone doing it in a better way. In order words, don't ever think where you are today is all that's to it. There is always room for expansion.
For you to attain the next level of greatness, you have to stretch yourself beyond your current capacity, strength and ability. To get satisfied with where you are is to get complacent. To get get complacent is to be irrelevant. If you must maintain relevance in whatever you do be it business, career even ministry you have to keep developing yourself. Nothing happens on its own you have to make them happen.
WHAT IS A GOAL?
A goal is something you want to achieve or something you want to get done. It's that simple. Without bothering us with much semantic. Every year, people set goals, make resolutions, make plans.... It's a tradition already. It's something that you should do... It's almost a bandwagon. But before the first quarter of the year many people have even forgotten about those resolutions or goals or plans.
Setting personal goal(s) is one most important thing that one can do to change the course of his life or situation. While setting your goals one thing is important... It's crucial you ask your self this question, WHAT DO I WANT? Until you come up with an answer to this question, you are not ready to set a goal....
It's getting answer to what you want... that you set up a goal. So you don't just set a goal because Franklin is having a goal Or because Judith is setting a goal. NO. You must want something. You must have a desire. Your desire must be spelt out e. g. I desire 20% increase in the profit margin of my business. I want a cgpa of 5.0. I want to get married before December. I want to get a job before I round off my NYSC. It's until you realize what you want that you can begin to set goals.
HOW DO WE SET GOALS?
I know we are used to the convectional "50 ways to setting and achieving your goals in 2018".I really do not have that....
I've tried so many methods, but they seemed not to work out well for me.... Until I came to light of a method which I'd be sharing. Often times we set goals around desires instead of setting goals around habits.
We don't set goals around our desires. I give examples of desire, I am a 500l Student, and my desire is to have 5.0 cgpa this semester. That should not be my goal. Then what should be my goal? I should list the habits that can give 5.0 GPA and build my goal around those habits.
Habits like;
- Read for 10hours daily
- Go for night class 5 times a week
- Keep up with class attendance
- Roll with class scholars
To mention a few.
One thing is certain these habit must give results when committed to. Those habits should be my goals. Rather than saying this semester I must have a 5.0 cgpa. At the end of the semester you might not have 5.0 and you might be frustrated when you pitch your goals around desires. But when you build your goals around habits that gives 5.0 even if you don't hit 5.0, You know you are moving , You are doing what you should do, And you are seeing results. It's cause and effect.
My profit margin must increase by 40% in 2018... That's desire Not a goal... How do I get this done (habits). That's the goal. Building your goals around habits helps you to be consistent and committed to the goals.
Focus on the how than the what. It's cause and effect... Get the habits that would produce the results. Pitch your goals around habits and results are around the corner.