Valerie has been helping people set and ACHIEVE those goals for years.  What I love about Valerie is her focus on helping people to achieve goals and not just setting goals.

In this video she gives some great tips on how to set goals and then how to achieve them.

Take a look at this video.  It is a long one so turn off your phone and enjoy!  If you want to know more about Valerie “The Goal Diva” click here “The Goal Diva”

Gary is know as “The Goals Guy“.  His 100 day challenge is one of the most exciting Goals and achievement tools on the internet.

As you know if you are subscribed to my blog I don’t believe in setting goals all the time.  I think people get way to confused and focused on setting goals rather than actually doing them.  However, that doesn’t mean I think goal setting is not right.  Actually I think it is important in life.

What Gary does with the 100 day challenge is give you a platform to achieve something great in 100 days.  It’s a program that will help you get to what you want.

As I said, I don’t believe in setting goals all the time and not doing what you need to do to achieve them.  I do believe in setting goals and achieving them!

Gary will help you do this.  It does costs money to join this but you can do a trial of the challenge and see if you want pay.

Check it out here.  100 Day challenge

Here I am writing a personal development blog and don’t believe in setting goals. Ah!  Perhaps I don’t know anything about Personal development.  If I did then I would be a big fan of goal setting?

Well no.  I am not.

I should probably say, before I am laughed out of the blogsphere, that I do goal set. But only now and again.

You know as well as I do that almost every Personal development book, self help CD and guru you have listened to on CD or watch on youtube says that you need to set goals.  So why am I saying don’t bother?

Because for most people, including me, doing that doesn’t work.

WASTE OF TIME

Yeah I said it, waste of time.

This blog was always about giving you Personal Development tips and advice that work and don’t take a long time to do.  I have always believed in simplicity and doing things that actually give you results.  When I started reading personal development books and listening to CD’s etc what I noticed was how complex most of the advice was.

Don’t get me wrong, it was great advice.  But wow, was it complicated.  I mean how many ways are there to set a goal?  It was almost like each one of these Personal Development guru’s wanted to be the smartest at goal setting. So they created complex ways to do it.

“First you need to do this, then you need to do that, then you need to visualise, then write down your goals, then set some dates, then, work out what you want then….”

And all you have to do is do this everyday for 6 months and you will have your goals!

Seriously that is how complex some of the goals settings methodologies are.

The challenge with this?  You never use them!  You might start with interest that you are learning a cool new way to set goals but after a week you are no further towards your goal and you are getting tired of doing the exercises.

Now if you are reading this and disagree, great.  You have probably found a way to set goals that works for you.  But can I ask you this? How much time each day to you spend on actually trying to get your goals?  I mean time doing things that will get them?

Again this is the problem with most goal setting methods.  They are complex, require too much time and most people spend more time doing them than actually working towards the goals.

Come on, you know this is true.  Most of my clients think I am mad when I talk to them about this.  They think I don’t know what I am talking about.  But then they start to see the logic in it.  Rather than mess around with your goal setting just pick a goal you think you want to achieve and go for it.

Yes I know.  I know that this could potentially dive you down a way that you don’t want to be.  But better to be moving right than thinking?

So what do I do when goal setting?

Well I believe that we all think about our goals and dreams enough to know what we really want.  The challenge is that we don’t dare to dream enough or block these out.

Well firstly I use my Magic Little Goal Tip.

The once I know what I want I just do it!  Everyday I make sure I am doing something towards my goals.

Sounds simple right?  It is.

Give it a go and see what you achieve in a month.

Matt

To keep them all on the boil I just have to make a to do list and be very good at going through what needs to be done each day.  If I sat down and started to “project manage” them too much then I think nothing would get done.

In a post I did the other day I said that you just need to “Start walking” towards your goals.  Rather than spend a long time “goal planning” just set what you know is roughly right and go for it.  Now I know for this post and the other one I will get some feedback from those who say that I just don’t realise the power of proper goal setting.  Well to those people I say you might be right but before you reply please know that I do understand why you should goal set properly and also how much you gain from doing it well.

I just think that many people spend a lot of time talking about and thinking about goals rather than doing things to make them happen.

I read a great post from Rosalind Gardner’s Blog.  If you don’t know Rosalind she is a super affiliate (someone who make a lot of money online) and someone who I follow to learn.  I think Rosalind has a great balance on her work/life and she certainly is a “go getter” in life.  She has just written a great post about managing different projects at once.  You can read that post here http://www.netprofitstoday.com/blog/make-your-resolutions-a-reality/.

What I like about this is her “to the point” approach to getting work done.  She marks out a 7 step plan which is almost exactly how I work.

You will see that she does actually mention “Make a plan” and “set goals” etc but she doesn’t say spend a long time doing this.  You see Rosalind is a successful person, she makes money, helps people make money and lives her own life.  What she knows is that you do need to go though the process but you also need to get off your backside and work.

That’s why if you asked me “What is the most important thing to do to achieve what you want?” I would say – “know what you want and just start walking today”.

Go for your goals and dreams.

Matt

Well I have written down what I want to have as my goals but I have not worked out exactly what I need to achieve them.

Is that bad?

Well actually I don’t think so.  I also don’t think I am justifying my lack of actions either.

Should I worry?  No.

You see I think that much is talked about setting goals, how much time and effort you must put into them and how it’s a detailed process.  That seems to be the only way you can “properly” set goals.

Well I completely disagree. Actually I think the more time you put into setting goals the less time you have to go out there and make them happen!  Please don’t get me wrong here, taking time to set goals is important it’s just that many people feel that you have to spend weeks working out what you want and then what you need to do to get what you want.

I think if you need to spend all that time working out what you want you really don’t know.  Also it’s better to get moving towards your goal rather than spending time thinking about how you should do it.

“Just Start Walking”

I think that is the right way to do it.  Just start walking towards your goals.  Don’t worry about the detail.  You do need to know where you are going but you don’t need a detailed plan…yet.

I did a video on how you work out what you want.  You can look at that goal setting video and see that you can set a goal pretty quickly.

That is the key I think.  Don’t worry if you only have your goals written down but don’t have a plan.  Just start walking.

The fact is you will achieve much more if you do that rather than spending time worrying about what to do next.  Remember “Those who know how always work for those who know why”.

Go for your dreams and goals.

Matt