Good day! This article is for those who are interested in their success and happiness!

Is goal setting one of the principles of success?

Yes. The goal is the destination. Target is a clearly articulated wish. Having defined your goal, you can look for ways to achieve it. Without goals, you go with the flow, in this case life controls you, not you. Imagine the sea, are you on a ship that sails to nowhere? Where will you end up? - at best, somewhere.

Remember Alice's dialogue with the Cheshire Cat:

- Tell me, please, where should I go from here?

- Where do you want to go? - answered the Cat.

- I don't care ... - said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter where you go,” said the Cat.

- ... just to get somewhere, - Alice explained.

"You're bound to get somewhere," said the Cat. - You just need to walk long enough.

If you don't care where you go, then you don't care which way to go. It is an attitude of irresponsibility or tolerance. In this case, you accept everything as it is, gratefully accept everything that you get, and do not want any changes, but simply be content with what you have.

Position simple and happy life. You have the right to live like this, and if with such a choice you are in a state of happiness, this is your happiness.

We are talking about those who want more, who are not satisfied with his present, or are satisfied, but he wants to change it.

If you wish to change, if you wish to choose from a catalog Universe what you like, what gives you pleasure, setting goals is an integral step on the chosen path.

1. Initially, you accept that something does not suit you, you want to change something, improve it. Acceptance as it is here and now. Recognize that "I want change."

2. After it is important to wish. It is important to know desires. What exactly do you want? Why, why are you doing this?

As a rule, we do not want the right car, but the joy of owning, comfort, speed, convenience. We do not want that job, but the pleasure of certain actions, the convenience of the schedule, the location, the joy and comfort of communicating with those people. So the second step, exactly understanding of what I really want to gain as a result of the fulfillment of desire.

3. Desire at the level of "I want" is nothing more than a whim of a child. It is important to understand that for the fulfillment of a desire there is a certain time period, your condition and a number of actions taken on your part.

Joke:

In the other world, God speaks to the newcomer:

- I asked you to give me a million! - expresses dissatisfaction with the newcomer.

- Did I refuse you? God asks.

- No, but I didn't get a million! - continues to exclaim the newly minted.

- Would you at least lottery ticket bought - narrates God.

It is important to understand that just wanting is not enough. A simple desire can only take you away from reality and create an illusion that you can believe in. But, believe me, reality will bring you back to reality sooner or later.

It is important from the desire to form a goal. Target- there is nothing else than a desire formed in space and time.

Third step : goal shaping. At the stage of desire, you scrolled through different options, looked through, felt and chose - now you are forming a goal.

4. While your goal is only in your head, it is not taken seriously. Therefore, goals are important to write down. And no matter how much this is said, the reality says that only 5-10% (10 is a very high figure) of people write down their fir-trees, correct, make plans, analyze, sum up and so on. And it is these people who make up the percentage of successful ones. Fascinating statistics, don't you think?

Get into the habit of writing everything: goals and plans, methods and mechanisms, strategies and ideas, analysis and results, conclusions.

5. Next, you make a plan of your actions. Whatit is youyou can do to achieve thisgoals. Develop a step-by-step plan, with small actions that you can do daily or systematically. Highlight the most important, important, secondary. And follow through in that order.

6. To reflect, to think, to understand - does not mean to act. Action on the way to the goal is an important step. As soon as you have drawn up a plan, determined those actions that depend on you, your determination, discipline - proceed, act immediately.

Reflections are important, they help to quickly and better understand a particular issue, find a solution, expand the boundaries of consciousness. But if you get carried away with thinking, your actions will have a low efficiency. Therefore, it is important to remember that it is not enough to think and reflect, it is important to act. Make mistakes, make failures, make missed deadlines, etc. You are human. But after an error, failure, expiration, do an analysis, deduce what hindered you, what was ineffective. Thus, each time you improve your actions.

7. Systematization, consistency and discipline develops a habit. If you want to master the skill of "quick achievement of goals", develop in yourself such a habit. A habit is developed through repetition. Therefore, the next step: these are daily or systematic actions. Even if these are the most insignificant actions, they will remind you that you are on the way to the goal, forming a stable neural network.

Set goals, otherwise you will become the goal. This is, of course, a figurative expression, but with a hint of truth. Since if you do not strive for anything, you do not have your own goals, you will contribute to the fulfillment of the goals of other people. Life is development, movement, you perform some actions every day. Either you take actions to achieve your goal, or you allow yourself to be used to achieve the goals of others. There is another model of life, you achieve your goals by helping others. You can combine models, for example, you spend part of your time on hired work, receiving some kind of benefit, and part - on achieving your goal. But spending all your time on the interests and goals of other people is the most unsuccessful model, and the most common one.

Self-management has a certain circle of rules:

Goal setting.

This is the analysis and formation of personal goals.

The Importance of Goal Setting

It is in the setting of goals that the basics of the activity of enterprises and its successful future lie. The goal describes the end result. It is necessary to realize that here we understand not what we do, but why we do it. Goals are a kind of challenge that encourages action. Even the best way of working is hopeless if we do not clearly define what we want in advance. In turn, in order to set these goals, one must think about the future. The goal gives clarity about the direction in which to move. Without it, you can get lost in the details and go astray.

Goal setting is a temporary process, since during the activity of the enterprise it may become clear that certain parameters have changed, which leads to the need to change the goal. For self-management, it is fundamental to be aware of where we want to go and where we do not want to go, and not to go where others want to take us. If the leader has a conscious goal, then all the unconscious forces of the leader are directed there, i.e. goals serve to concentrate forces on important directions. “Random successes are good, but rare. Planned successes are better because they are manageable and happen more often.”

Finding goals

(goal analysis)

What do I want?

situational analysis

What I can?

Goal Formulation

(goal planning)

Finding goals.

In order to succeed, you need to choose the right goals. Various technologies can be used for this. You need to answer the following questions for yourself:

What goals do you want to achieve?

Do they agree with each other?

Are there so-called the highest goal and certain intermediate goals on the way to the main one?

Do you know what you yourself can do for this ( strengths) and what else do you need to work on (weak points)?

In a word, it is necessary to achieve clarity of purpose.

situational analysis

It is a kind of register of personal resources (means to achieve goals) and allows you to find out what should be encouraged (strengths) and what still needs to be worked on (weaknesses).

By analyzing our abilities, we determine what we can do in general, i.e. What personal potential do you have to achieve your goals? We are talking about the further development of this potential. On the other hand, we must be clear about our weaknesses in order to avoid actions that may contribute to the manifestation of such "qualities", or to take measures to get rid of these shortcomings.

It is also possible to draw up a balance of their biggest failures and defeats and highlight, as a result of the absence, what qualities they were. “Knowing your weaknesses means strengthening your strengths.”

Analysis "end - means"

In the process of analysis, the means (personal, financial, time resources) necessary to achieve the desired goals are compared with the real situation.

Formulation of goals.

This is the last step in goal setting. This is a concrete formulation of practical goals for the subsequent planning stage. "Set deadlines - formulate results."

At the same time, it is necessary to remember about the physical condition, health, self-education and cultural enlightenment. It is necessary not to take on too much and install also short term goals aligned with the achievement of their long-term global goals.

Topic 2. Setting goals in the work of a manager

1. The Importance of Goal Setting

2. Finding goals

3. Ray diagrams in goal planning

4. Balance of successes and failures

1. The Importance of Goal Setting

Goal setting requires expressing our explicit and hidden needs, interests, desires or tasks in the form of clear intentions and precise formulations, as well as orienting our actions and deeds towards these goals and their implementation.

Every business involves setting goals. Since this book is about self-management, we want to take a closer look at the meaning of goal setting in the personal realm. Goal setting means looking to the future. Orientation and concentration of our forces and activity on what must be achieved. Thus, the goal describes the end result. It's about not about what you do, but about what you do. Goals challenge you and motivate you to take action. Without goals, there is no Evaluation criterion by which you can measure your work. Goals, in addition, are also a scale for assessing what has been achieved. Even the best working method is worthless if you do not clearly and unambiguously define what you want in advance.

Goals are the "instigators" of our actions, the motives that determine our activity. If any individual has set a goal for himself, then a state of tension arises as a result of this, which acts as a driving force and which disappears only when the goal is achieved.

To set goals, you need to think about the future. Traditional thinking in terms of particular tasks is fraught with the fact that you get lost in the details. Thinking in terms of goals promotes the subordination of the particular to the whole.

As you do your daily work, ask yourself this question:

 Does what I'm in bring me closer this moment do, towards the achievement of my respective goal?

Goal setting is an ongoing process because goals are not set once and for all. They may change over time, for example if it turns out during the follow-up process that previous perceptions were fundamentally wrong, or that requests were over or under.

Goal setting means the conscious implementation of one's actions in accordance with a guiding line or benchmark. Fundamental to our self-management is knowing where we want to go and where we don't want to go (i.e., self-determination) so that we don't end up where others want us to go.

If I have a conscious goal, my unconscious forces are directed to it. Goals serve to concentrate forces on really key areas.

Knowing your goals and consistently striving for them means focusing your energy on things that really matter, instead of wasting your energy in vain.

This chapter is based on the following goal setting process.

2. Finding goals

You want to achieve more - otherwise you would not have purchased this book. To achieve something and be successful, you need to spend time and money. Required certain methods and careful disposition in order to achieve the goal as well as possible and in a reasonable time:

 What goals do you want to achieve?

 Do they agree with each other?

 Are there a so-called higher goal and certain intermediate goals on the way to the main one?

 Do you know what you can do for this yourself (strengths) and what you still need to work on (weaknesses)?

Achieve clarity of purpose!

This is an unconditional, fundamental prerequisite for success in work and in life! Finding personal life goals and defining them means giving direction to your life. As a result, you will be able to translate your own values ​​into reality.

Try to set goals that can be turned into immediate action.

1. Do's and don'ts: I want to lead more healthy lifestyle life.

How to do it: I want to do a 15-minute run in the fresh air every day.

2. Do's and don'ts: I want to be able to communicate better with my employees.

The Right Way: I want to set aside an extra hour each week for each employee to talk to them about professional and personal topics.

Such specific, action-oriented goals can be directly planned, for example, recorded in a time diary for certain days or weeks and implemented in stages.

Describe exactly what you specifically want to achieve!

Written registration contributes to the fact that more or less bold ideas and desires are often recorded. In this way, you will learn to constantly engage with your goals and refine them. In writing, the goals are also visually imprinted and less prone to forgetting. If you clearly define your goals, then they automatically become binding: fixed on paper, they encourage permanent analysis, re-checking and revision.

^ In this section, we want to encourage you to use various exercises to think through your goals, specifically formulate them, systematize and set them down in writing.

From general ideas about life aspirations to an inventory of goals!

Finding personal goals can be accomplished through the following four steps.

(1) Development of general ideas about life aspirations.

(2) Differentiation in time of life goals.

(3) Development of guiding ideas in the professional field.

(4) Inventory goals.

sketch general ideas about life aspirations.

Try to paint for yourself a possible picture of your future life. Do not grieve over failures and defeats in the past: in any case, nothing can be changed here, but lessons must be learned from this!

Curve of my life.

How has your life been so far?

What were your biggest successes? Where were the defeats? In the professional field? In a personal?

How do you imagine your future?

To what age would you like to live?

What else do you want to achieve?

What blows of fate or defeat do you expect?

 Draw your life curve and mark where you are now. Near the extreme points of your "life curve"

 write key words describing success or failure.

 Try to imagine your future and continue the “curve” further.

Differentiate your life goals according to time criteria.

At the same time, it does not matter whether your own ideas turn out to be realistic or utopian - this aspect will be considered later. It is much more important now to find out what your “life lines” are that determine your existence, as well as what are your desires, which you will strive to fulfill in the coming years. Even seemingly utopian goals can become incentives and guidelines for your subsequent work and your future life.

Use the exercise below to figure out what events you need to consider in the next 20 years of your personal time series. Take into account the people in your immediate environment (partners, children, parents, boss, friends, etc.) and your age.

Such special events can be:

Enrollment of children in school or their reaching the age of majority;

Retirement of father or mother;

Retirement of immediate supervisor

Expiration of payments on long-term loans;

Release of invested funds, etc.

Time series for finding personal goals

This time series connects your desires and goals With others important dates from the lives of people in your personal environment.

Enter in the columns of the following form all the desired goals for the near and distant future:

Long-term life goals, milestones, etc. What do you want to achieve in this world, in this life?

medium term goals.

What do you want to achieve in the next 5 years?

Short term goals.

What do you want to achieve in the next 12 months?

At the penultimate stage of finding personal goals, we will take a closer look at the “profession” sphere.

Highlight your professional reference points!

What would you most like to do professionally? If you could freely choose your official position, function, rank, industry, organization, enterprise or institution, what would you most like to be or become?

Examples:

Become a manager in a medium-sized company XY - industry.

Become a member of the board of firm X or Y.

Establish or manage a foreign subsidiary (in which country?).

Be ranked among the leading specialists.

Achieve a position in the state apparatus.

Achieve the title of professor or doctor.

Hold your current position until retirement and strengthen your position.

Work independently (self-employed) as...

Make a political career as...

After five years, "quit the game" and become a shepherd in the Lüneburg Valley.

3. Ray diagrams in goal planning

For example, a goal in a professional aspect of your life that is key to you might be to become a director. You may see your task as getting a promotion within the next two years. The steps that are designed to help you in this task can be defined as: pass the qualifying exam, impress the appointment committee, prove yourself to superiors. The following tasks can become more specific: take a special course, research documentation for previous periods, study the technique of taking exams, consult on interview techniques, study company reports and newsletters, complete work on a significant project on time, take an initiative, take part in preparing a Christmas concert (Fig. 2).

List your goals on the front page of your diary or organizer (see Chapter 3 for more on choosing and using them), so you always have them in front of you. Check them daily and reassess and revise each year. Your values ​​and goals may change over time. If so, then when revising the goals and objectives, such changes should also be taken into account.

Thus, you develop your own strategic plan. The plan is designed to ensure that your goals are met by proposing stratagems to achieve them. This is how those who have achieved success in life act.

Beam diagrams

It would seem that with the setting of goals and objectives, everything is clear, but it is possible that when you try to work out a clear picture of them, your head will spin. It happens that you can’t decide on your own life goals and look into the future beyond a very short perspective, and as a result, life flows as if by itself, and you just go with the flow.

If this work presents a significant difficulty for you, you can use the tool for organizing thoughts. It is called a ray diagram and can be useful not only in setting goals, but also in finding solutions to a wide range of problems.

Many people have difficulty communicating with strangers when they need to tell something about themselves. Putting thoughts on paper is in many ways similar to presenting them to other people. It is especially difficult to think of ordering, as if compiling a numbered list so familiar to our eyes. The ray diagram helps to display thoughts in the form that most closely matches the natural way of human thinking, namely, jumping from one subject to another.

Take a blank sheet of paper, write your name in the center and circle it. Circle the name around the key aspects of your life that you intend to reflect on, for example: “Work”, “Family”, “Leisure”, “Social activities”, “Religion”, etc. Also circle them and connect them with rays to the central circle . Turn to each of the outer circles in turn and note next to it any thoughts you have on this aspect. Connect each mental thesis with the circle to which it relates, whether it is the closest in location or any other. Also connect your other thoughts with any of the original circles or with the thoughts and lines of connections already marked. Do not try to think in terms of goals, state everything that comes to mind. As a result, a construction of circles and multidirectional lines will be built on paper (Fig. 3).

The most important themes will begin to emerge by themselves. If the diagram gets too complicated, take one of the circles, for example, the “Money” circle, transfer it to the center of another sheet and continue the development of the plot (Fig. 4).

When thoughts run dry and constructions are completed, take a look at your diagrams and you will see where you need to focus your efforts. You will get an impulse to think about your life, about what you really expect from it. As a result, life goals as such will not take shape, but you will look at life in perspective and liberate the process of thinking.

If you want to focus more on one subject, for example, on a professional career, place a “Work” circle in the center of the sheet, place the names of people related to it and all its stages around it. Or start with one person, such as your boss, and think about every aspect of your professional activity.

4. Balance of successes and failures

Once you've determined, "Where do I want to?", consider asking, "Where am I?" You need to analyze your personal strengths and weaknesses. To this end, let's take a look at your life curve again and, with the help of the following exercise, identify your biggest successes so far in your work and personal life. What abilities, knowledge, experience, etc. were needed to achieve these successes? At the same time, try to establish those abilities that led to the corresponding result.

By analyzing your abilities, you will determine what you can do at all, that is, what personal potential you have to achieve your goals. We are talking about the further development of this potential. But this is only one side of the coin.

On the other hand, you must be clear about your weaknesses in order to avoid actions that may contribute to the manifestation of such "qualities", or take measures to get rid of these shortcomings.

Also make a balance of your biggest failures and defeats and note what lack of qualities they were due to. Think further about how you overcame this or that failure in your time.

Advantages and disadvantages

The next step is to group the advantages and disadvantages you have identified and highlight two or three major strengths and weaknesses. Such a "cut" of personal qualities is a prerequisite for planning further steps and measures to achieve goals.

Analysis "end - means"

In the process of analysis, the means (personal, financial, time resources) necessary to achieve the desired goals are compared with the real situation. To do this, refer to the “inventory” of goals compiled in the previous section and select the five most important goals. Determine the means necessary to achieve these goals and check what you still need to achieve or start in order to get closer to the corresponding goal.

For professional (career) goals, under the heading “Means”, indicate the qualifications necessary to achieve them and set specific realistic practical goals for gaining experience and abilities that you still lack.

For each person, self-determination and self-affirmation in life is always very important, and therefore people who know exactly “what and how to do?” are the most successful.
When we want to achieve something, sooner or later we will do it, if we do not hesitate, be lazy. We are driven by a goal that does not allow us to relax. The goal is our guideline, to which our life activity is directed, which leads us through the difficulties and obstacles of reality. Goals are the motivators of our actions, the motives that determine our activity.
Goal setting requires expressing explicit and hidden needs, interests, desires and tasks in the form of clear intentions and precise formulations, as well as orienting actions and deeds towards these goals and their implementation. Without goals, there is no benchmark by which you can measure your work. Goals are also a criterion for evaluating what has been achieved. Even the best working method is worthless if you do not clearly and unambiguously define what you want in advance.
Goals are not set once and for all. Goal setting is an ongoing process. They may change over time, for example, if it turns out during the implementation control process that previous perceptions were incorrect or that requests turned out to be too high or, conversely, too low.
Goal setting is an absolute prerequisite for planning, decision making and daily work.
Thus, setting personal goals allows you to: better understand your career choices; make sure it's correct chosen path; better evaluate the effectiveness of actions and experiences; convince others of the correctness of your point of view; get additional strength, motivation; increase the likelihood of achieving the desired results; concentrate forces on strategic directions. The goals serve to concentrate forces in key areas.
Life Goal Search Technology

To find personal and professional reference points, first of all find out exactly what you want, i.e. achieve clarity of purpose.
collapse or absence life purpose- the strongest psychotrauma. One who does not know for what and for whom he lives is not satisfied with fate. However, disappointment often befalls those who set themselves unrealistic, unattainable goals for subjective and objective reasons.

Usually goals are set for a specific period, so it is useful to observe the process of their definition, approval and implementation in the following sequence.

Step One - Clarify Your Needs You need to set goals in a situation that does not satisfy you or may become one. Step Two - Clarify Opportunities Most leaders choose from a range of options in all areas of life. Some of these opportunities may conflict with your values ​​or cause difficulties for those around you. Step three is deciding what you need. The list of possibilities is not enough; you need to know what you are striving for and what you want to achieve. It may seem obvious, but determining what you need is not always easy. Step four - choose Once the range of available options has been determined and the needs and desires are clear, a choice must be made. Step five - clarifying the goal Goals are useful as a reminder of what actions are being taken for. Step six - setting time limits
Time is a resource that should be used wisely, but can also be seriously misused. Step Seven - Control Your Achievements

Formulating the goals of the employees of the organization.

Each person should have a more or less stable system of goals: some goals are more preferable, others are relegated to the background. In the totality of the goals of each person, the main and intermediate goals are found, subordinate to the main ones, but without which it is impossible to achieve the final goal. The French sociologist B. Gurney identifies four types of personal goals for a person who has joined a management organization.
1. Striving for security, for the exclusion of threats of risk for oneself personally.
2. The desire to improve living standards. To understand this goal, it should be borne in mind that the satisfaction of employees with their salary depends not only on the absolute value of remuneration, but also on the ratio with the salaries of their colleagues.
3. The desire for power. This goal breaks down into a number of interrelated sub-goals: the desire to expand the circle of one's powers, achieve autonomy, and move up the career ladder.
4. The desire to increase and strengthen the prestige. This goal is divided into two sub-goals: strengthening personal prestige and the prestige of the organization itself.

When specifically formulating practical goals, it is necessary to keep in mind aspects such as physical condition, since good health is a prerequisite for an active life and successful self-management. To do this, it is necessary to include in your periodic plans (annual, monthly, weekly and daily) activities to improve health: daily jogging in the fresh air, treatment, swimming, ski runs, preventive examinations, etc.
One should not forget about self-education, raising the level of knowledge and skills, one's own cultural enlightenment (travel, participation in cultural events, etc.).
Many managers find that personal goals can make a big difference if they meet them. the following criteria: The person feels personally interested in achieving them. Perhaps a successful advance towards them in small steps. Time limits have been set. A specific end result is clearly established.
The main characteristics of the goal: the accuracy of determination, the ability to measure, achievability, realism, an indication of time intervals for its implementation

The constancy and importance of goals in a person's life are different. Some of these goals are fundamental and persist over generations (for example, the desire for profit), others are more superficial and temporary (for example, the desire to have a good Christmas).
A goal in general terms can serve as a useful guide, but it may not always draw attention to what needs to be done to be successful. You should set realistic goals. At the same time, do not take on too much, because in this case, personal tasks have little chance of being completed. You also need to set short-term goals aligned with the achievement of your long-term global goals.

Staff self-marketing.

Self-Marketing - The Influence of Personal Characteristics on Career Choices - Managing a Professional Career Making a career in the labor market, each of us acts as a creator and seller of our own labor force. You can achieve success by knowing the market conditions and its laws.
To achieve the set professional goals, it is necessary to analyze the reality of their achievement using an algorithm consisting of the following five steps. Step 1: Search for relevant information. A deep search should be made of all available information about various professions and specialties. Step 2: Making a real choice list. Once you've gotten the information you need about the various careers that interest you, you'll find that some of them can be safely eliminated. Step 3: Acquiring the necessary qualifications and undergoing appropriate training. Step 4: Acquisition of relevant experience. Qualifications must be backed by practical experience if you want to progress in your career. Step 5: Start your career (or new career).

When you enter the labor market with your work force, you are generally required to carry out those marketing functions yourself, which in an industrial company are carried out by individual employees and specialists. Mastering the methods of self-marketing is necessary condition successful career. Almost every person faces such a problem in his life as choosing a career. At the same time, everyone strives to achieve certain successes in life: to conquer any peaks, to achieve best results, to strive for excellence and professionalism in any field and, of course, to receive satisfaction from the work done.
Choosing a profession is a very important decision, since mistakes in this choice can lead to the most negative results. , special knowledge, get a good education and correctly navigate in a particular situation. And it must be remembered that the main thing in work is not only earnings, but also the pleasure derived from it.
In essence, a manager is a person who independently makes decisions on any issue. At different levels, they differ, first of all, in the degree of responsibility, the complexity of tasks, the number of people who are subordinate, and salary. At English word manager several meanings - manager, manager, conductor, owner, authorized to negotiate, impresario ... What reasons determine the level of a person's claims in labor activity? Typically, there are many reasons. However, it is undeniable that a significant group of determinants of labor aspirations of workers is represented by their biographical characteristics, including age, gender, education, socio-economic status of the individual.

Most people don't reach their goals because they never really put them first. (Denis Waitley, mental coaching psychologists)

Everyone has heard about the need to set goals for themselves since childhood. This advice has become so familiar that it is no longer perceived as useful. And the need for goal setting eventually loses its relevance for the majority.

But really, why set goals? Can a goal make our lives better, and ourselves even a little happier?

American writer Chuck Palahniuk once said: “If you don’t know what you want, you will end up with what you definitely don’t want.” A clear understanding of what we really need allows us to take concrete steps to get what we want. A life in which there are goals becomes meaningful and fulfilling, and achievements, even the most modest ones, bring moral satisfaction and quite tangible material results.

In fact, goals, even if unconscious and illusory, are set by any person. Many people like to talk about what they would like to have, what to change in their environment and in themselves. Some are not satisfied with their physical condition, others would like to devote more time to loved ones and favorite activities, others dream of a career and material well-being. But at the same time, few take it upon themselves to clearly articulate what exactly they want, what needs to be done for this, and what paths should be chosen to achieve the desired result.

Often people are simply afraid to make plans and set clearly defined goals. You know the saying: "If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans." Probably, it was invented by an incorrigible fatalist, not accustomed to being responsible for himself and his life.

Indeed, why plan and dream something when all life depends on the circumstances in which we find ourselves, full of obstacles and difficulties? A much easier solution seems to be to simply wait for something good to "happen". But it, this good thing, for some reason "happens" extremely rarely. As a result, the sea negative emotions and dissatisfaction with their own fate.

But a person who sets clear goals for himself lives differently: he perceives difficulties and obstacles on the way to his dream not as fatal bad luck, but as interesting tasks that can really be solved and move on. His life is filled with vivid impressions, he is proud of himself and his achievements. From a passive extra, he turns into a director and builder of his own destiny.

To make sure that goal setting really helps to make life better, let's try to formulate what specific benefits reasonable goal setting can provide.

1. Control over the situation

The comparison of human life with a fast river flow is not new, but it is clear enough. Imagine that you need to cross from one side of a river to the other. A person without a goal gives himself up to the power of the flow of events and waits for the flow to carry him at least somewhere. Of course, ideally, he would like to get to the other side, but everything depends on the circumstances, i.e. from where the river takes him.

A person who is clearly aware of his goal - to get to a specific place on the opposite bank - will make every effort to get closer to the intended point: fight the current, row with all his might, calculate the trajectory of movement, etc. Which of the two do you think is more likely to reach the opposite shore? Undoubtedly, the one who maximally seeks to control the situation in accordance with a clearly defined goal.

2. The meaning of life

While this may make some people smile, clearly defined goals really help to find meaning in life. And not only due to the fact that a person knows exactly where to move. If everyday life turns from expectation into a path in which every step brings us closer to something concrete and definite, it cannot be called empty.

At the same time, every moment of existence acquires meaning, which makes the dream a little more real and closer, because the meaning of life is not so much in the result, but in the process. You yourself will be surprised what new emotions and unexpected pleasant surprises await you on this road, what opportunities will open up for you when implementing even such simple plans as daily walking, gaining harmony, mastering the wisdom of sewing or knitting, or studying foreign language. The only thing you lose by clearly defining goals for yourself is the feeling that your life is wasted.

3. Productivity

By clearly formulating what exactly you want to achieve, you can highlight individual tasks on the way to achieving the goal. Many of them will be quite realistic to solve in the very near future, and some right now. Instead of abstract dreams, you will move on to concrete actions, you will overcome specific difficulties step by step and solve specific problems - which means that you will really start moving in the right direction and get tangible results almost immediately.

4. Self-confidence and enthusiasm

By solving clearly formulated tasks, you can easily evaluate the results of your efforts. For clarity, it is useful to record achievements in the form of a table or graph - so you can at any time be sure that your actions bring quite tangible results. It inspires and gives strength to move on.

Of course, you can keep notes in a regular notepad or in a file on your computer. But it is much more convenient to do this with the help of our service, designed specifically to help anyone clearly articulate their goals and make a plan to achieve them. Our specialist coaches and community members will help you not to stop halfway, who will definitely find words of support, advise on how to increase motivation, and, of course, rejoice with you in new successes. By the way, the recognition of your achievements by other people is a really powerful source of increasing self-esteem and gaining confidence in yourself.

Such a system of compiling mini-reports and recording intermediate results will clearly demonstrate that you are really capable of a lot and help you analyze what you still need to work on. Even one realized goal will make you realize that dreams can come true, you just have to make an effort. Fear of building “huge plans” and doubts about one’s own abilities will give way to calm confidence and a desire to solve new problems.

5. Realization of the "impossible"

Dreams that seemed completely unrealizable are turning from castles in the air into real projects that are quite possible to realize. To do this, you just need to correctly determine what small steps can ultimately lead to the goal, determine intermediate tasks - and consistently work according to the plan. At the same time, to obtain results, perseverance and daily work are much more important than a flight of inspiration or a one-time “breakthrough” at the limit of possibilities. And such a dubious thing as luck generally fades into the background.

6. "A feeling of deep satisfaction"

Jokes aside, a clear goal setting allows you to really achieve a lot in life and, most importantly, to realize your successes and get full satisfaction from what you have achieved.

This is confirmed by numerous studies, as well as examples from the life of famous successful personalities. People who purposefully move towards certain results are rightfully proud of their achievements and strive for new ones. Why don't you follow their example?

7. Self-realization

Sometimes a person is not even aware of his abilities and talents. From day to day, almost mechanically performing the usual actions, solving problems “as they come”, he is confident that he is simply not capable of more.

The desired goal helps to push the boundaries of routine existence, to get out of the so-called "comfort zone" - after all, you have to do something unusual every day, learn new things, which means changing and developing, realizing the hidden potential inherent in everyone.

Non-standard solutions necessary for the full implementation of our plans, meeting new people who can inspire or teach us something, the joy of realizing our own strengths and abilities - all this and much more becomes possible for a person working to make his dream come true.