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Setting concrete goals in both your personal and professional lives is a great success strategy. Goal setters visualize what they want to achieve, identify a goal, and plan a series of steps that will make that visualization a reality.
Watch the video below to learn some tips for setting goals.
People who set professional goals exhibit...
Note: While this lesson focuses on setting and achieving professional goals, the steps learned in this lesson can be used to set goals in all areas of your life.
Take some time to visualize your professional future. Write these ideas down on a sheet of paper, not dismissing any ideas at this point. For now, they don't need to be in any particular order.
Writing a goal statement/action plan
Many people spend their lives simply reacting to what is going on around them, living a life without goals or purpose. Take the first step toward controlling your future by identifying a goal.
Here, you'll write down a professional goal you'd like to achieve in five years. Studies show that you can increase your chances of achieving your goals by writing them down—but how you write them down has an impact on your success as well.
To write an achievable goal statement, consider the following tips:
Congratulations! You've already taken the first step toward achieving workplace success by identifying and recording a professional goal. However, achieving one's goals doesn't happen overnight. It takes careful planning, focus, and daily persistence. The next step toward achieving your goal is creating an action plan.
Print out our Writing a Professional Goal Action Plan Worksheet to help you complete this exercise.
Mind Tools: Provides several tools to help you be successful in the workplace, including an article on personal goal setting.
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