TEN BENEFITS OF GOAL SETTING

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1.GOALS DRAW OUT YOUR SENSE OF PURPOSE
Ralph Emerson said, "the world makes way for the man who knows where he is going." Goals give you something to focus on. The reason for aimlessness of most people lies in the absence of well-defined goals.
Katherine Porter made the following observations.

• 50% of the people don?t pay attention to where they are going.
• 40% are undecided and will go in any direction.
• Only 10% know what they want and even all of them towards it.
  A research conducted on graduating students in Yale University showed that only 3% of all people have goals and wrote them down. These three percents were wealthier than the remaining 97% of humanity combined. These 3% owned the land that 97% occupied. The aim of our present exercise is to move you to join this top 3%.

1. GOALS GIVE YOU REASON TO ACHIEVE
   Millionaire Industrialist, Andrew Carnage said, "You cannot push anyone up the ladder unless he is willing to climb himself." Mike Murdock identified a man without goals, as one of the seven people you cannot help. No one moves forward without a motivation. A goal makes you see what needs to be achieved. J. C. Penny said, "Give me a clerk with a goal, and I will give you a man who will make history. Give me a man without a goal and I will give you a store clerk."

2. GOALS HELP TO DETERMINE YOUR PRIORITY
   Goals show you what to do. You are able to measure everything you are doing according to whether or not it contributes to your goals. With clear goals, you are able to concentrate your attention on the things that bring you closer to it and give less attention to everything that doesn't. Apostle Paul said: "But one thing I do, forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead" (Phil:3:13 NASB).

3. GOALS KEEP YOUR FOCUS ON IMPROVEMENT

4. GOALS TONE UP YOUR MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH
   The reason so many people die soon after retirement is that they have ceased to set goals for themselves. Without direction in your life, you are vulnerable to negative thought patterns. Your mental attitude and your physical health are closely related. Having set goals will demand that you keep mentally and physically in shape.

5. GOALS GENERATE RESPECT
   People always admire and look up to a person knows where he is going. Those with goals inspire others to greater heights.

6. GOALS HELP YOU TO REALIZE AND ENJOY FEELING OF ACCOMPLISHMENT
   What you cannot measure, you cannot monitor. Without goals, you float aimlessly, but as you achieve your goals, there is a feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment.

7. GOALS DELIVER THE ACHIEVER FROM THE DECEPTION AND DESIRE TO APPLAUSE
   Achievers become stuck when they start to believe their own publicity. it is always a fact of life for you to know that a third of the crowd doesn't care for you, and the other third couldn't care less about you. That should bring you down to earth.

8. GOALS DELIVER YOU FROM LIVING IN THE PAST
   Having set goals, the leader takes his mind off the past and centers his attention on the future.

1. GOALS HELP YOU TO REALIZE YOUR VISION
   Without ‘goals’ programme, a vision is only wishful thinking Goals are a set of specific, measurable steps that design the programme for fulfilling your vision.

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