Goal setting is one of those words bandied around the professional arena and made to look essential because well, it is. Knowing your goals means you have a direction, a plan, something you are actively working towards and there is certainly nothing wrong with that.
However, do you understand why it is absolutely essential that you write your goals down?
Here are 3 great reasons…
You get more committed to your results – While you just dream of your goals, they are an option. You can back out from them, you can pretend that they were less than what they really are and you can then settle for a lot less than you set out to get. Whereas if you write them down and you place them somewhere you can see them, there is no getting away from it. You can see what you said you wanted and you can deliberately put a plan together to help you achieve that goal. You use a lot more of your body and therefore your focus to create your goals – When you think about your goals, you are using your imagination only but by choosing to write them down as well, there is a lot more of you invested in the accomplishment of said goals. You cannot think of something else while holding a pencil (or pen) in hand and writing out your goals. Because you are a lot more focused on accomplishing your goals, you are less subject to distractions when others try to eat into your time. You remember what you have used more of your body to create. Everyone else is writing their goals out to you – Why would you not? Imagine you had a money goal, you wanted to make more of it or at least that was the vague idea. And then the mail carrier drops round and he/she leaves in your letterbox a whole list of demands for payment of bills and immediately, you react to it. You give them your money because they wrote it down. You take it more seriously than your imagined goal because it is there looking at you in black and white (or maybe even color). They are serious about collecting that money from you so they wrote out their intentions to you. You are not so serious about your ‘I want more money’ goal and so it comes last when considering what to do with your money in order to make more.
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Rosemary Nonny Knight used to be a pharmacist and then she transitioned into her own profitable business and has been teaching sales, marketing, leadership principles to professionals looking to make the same move for the last few years.