How to Set Goals That Actually Get Accomplished

A step-by-step guide to setting powerful goals that you’ll actually achieve.

I’ll go ahead and spare you the typical pep-talk of setting goals. We all know that goals are important. It’s important to have purposeful milestones in life, at which you are constantly working to achieve. Some would say this is what gives their life meaning in the first place. And that’s about as far into it as I’ll go.

Now, how many of those goals did you actually accomplish? How many of those goals are you still working on? How many did you give up on? It’s one thing to create a goal, yet another to actually achieve it. So many people find themselves in this exact position, so no, you aren’t alone.

What most goal achieving people would say to this, is that you aren’t working hard enough. Let me reassure you that this is absolute hog-wash. It’s true that all of these efforts require… well… effort. Yet, the lack of actually hitting the milestone isn’t due to a low tier level of work.

Goals aren’t failing due to a lack of work. Goals are failing because you didn’t do a good job when creating them.

With that being said, I’m going to take you step-by-step through a process that will help you in creating powerful goals that actually get accomplished.

This is by far my favorite step. Within this step, you will need to take out a pen and paper if you like it old school, or you can grab your laptop. Either way will work. From here, you are going to spend about 15–20 minutes dropping every single goal that comes to mind.

The list can go as long as you want and it really doesn’t matter what you come up with. So long as you are creating a flow of consciousness that can be written or typed, it’s golden.

Now as this list grows, you’ll notice something. You’ll start coming up with things you didn’t even know were on the radar. Goals that you were oblivious to at first, and feel like a new born baby. This is what we want…

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