5 Simple Steps To Achieving Any Goal in Life
I was masterminding with my great friend and mentor, Aaron Parkinson last night and he described simple, easy to follow steps for achieving any goal in life, and it just blew me away. I was so impressed by its simplicity — yet completeness — that I just couldn’t wait to pass it on to my loyal readers.
Pretty much everyone I know sets goals in one form or another. Yet very few actually meet their goals. And the big reason?
Most people are great at setting goals, but have no plan for accomplishing them.
So today I give you….
The 5 Simple Steps To Achieving ANY Goal In Life
Step 1: SET THE GOAL
Sounds simple, but remarkably many people are unclear about what they want. Think about it — what do you really, Really, REALLY want? What is that one thing that you burn for.. the one that you think about before you go to sleep and the one that is on your mind when you wake up. And when you’ve got it, WRITE IT DOWN somewhere where you’ll see it every single day, several times a day.
Having a strong, passionate goal is the very first step to achieving anything. And don’t skimp on the PASSION — it’s the most important part.
Step 2: GIVE YOUR GOAL A DATE
You must put a timeline on a goal. Otherwise, it simply becomes something that you’ll do “when you get time”. Make it realistic, but make it concrete.
Remember the saying,
A Goal without a Date is Simply a Wish….
Step 3: MAKE A DETAILED PLAN
So you’ve made your goal, you’ve put a time limit on it… now what? How are you going to accomplish this goal? To me, this is one of the most important parts of accomplishing goals — having a clear, DETAILED plan on reaching your desire.
Here’s an example from one of my specific goals: Making $10,000 in one month in my Marketing Business….
Goal: 10,000 in a 30 day period
Time Limit: 3 months
Plan -- in order to figure out how I will generate that kind of money, I needed to WORK BACKWARDS to figure out how many sales, applications, and leads I would need. I also needed to be realistic, so I took into consideration my conversion factors from leads to applications to sales, and did my calculations
In my business, I have 3 top tier financial products plus the money I get from marketing our accompanying Internet Marketing Education and Training curriculum.
Here is a breakdown of how I needed to accomplish my goal… check out how detailed it is, down to the dollar and down to the number of sales.
- One Sale of my Top Tier 2 Product - commission $4500
- Four Sales of my Top Tier 1 Product – commission 4 @ $900 each = $3600
- Ten Sales of my Internet Marketing Education Product – 10 @ $150 commission = $1500
- Twenty Seven Applications to Join Our Business – 27 @ $25 commission = $675
- TOTAL…. $10,275
Now, how many leads will I need to accomplish this? I know from my previous marketing and from our company averages that our leads/application ratio is about 5%. That means for every 100 leads, I should receive 5 applications. If I need 27 applications to achieve my goal, then I will need approximately 550 leads each month.
Now, that is a finite number to shoot for – 550 leads in one month.
See how this works? If you work backwards from your goal (monetary or otherwise) and break it down to its ultimate building blocks you can “get down to brass tacks” and truly understand EXACTLY what you’ll need to do to accomplish your goal.
Step 4: REVIEW, EVALUATE AND ADJUST
You need to periodically review your progress and make changes if something isn’t moving you towards your goal. In my case, if I found that my video marketing campaign was only generating a few leads per week, I would need to reevaluate this marketing method. My choices are to either make better videos and more of them, or move on to some other method of marketing. Evaluation and adjustment are crucial to achieving any goal.
Step 5: CELEBRATE EVERY VICTORY
Celebrate every success along the way. If you generate your first lead, CELEBRATE… because you know that once you’ve learned how to generate one lead, you can generate 10, and then 100 and then as many as you wish. But celebrate every victory to keep the ball rolling in the right direction.
The 5 steps to achieving any goal — naming the specific goal, dating it, making a plan to accomplish the goal, evaluating your progress, and celebrating every success — is a simple formula that anyone can do.
To your success!
Dr. Bob Clarke
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