(c)2000 Terri Seymour
Our lives, personal and business are made up of a series of goals. We want to be successful, happy, earn a good living, have a family and so on. But how do we achieve these goals? Hopefully, in our personal life, we meet the right person to help us make our personal goals happen. For some of us, this happens right away and for some it may take a lot of years. When it does happen, all of your personal goals can become reality. Our business goals on the other hand, may take more work to make them happen.
When you are deciding on your business goals, one thing you can do is divide your one main goal into several smaller goals that will make your main goal seem more attainable. Instead of your goal being to make a million dollars a year, you can divide this into yearly, monthly, weekly and also daily goals.
For example: If you are an ezine publisher and your goal is 100,000 subscribers, your first year goal could be set at 1000. You make your goals into attainable steps and follow those steps to success. You will accomplish more and not be so easily discouraged by working your business this way.
When you first decide you want to start your own business, what you should do is write down your plan for your business and also what you want your main goal to be. Put all this in an outline. Then you decide on smaller monthly, weekly and yearly goals to work for in order to achieve your main goal.
Another good idea is to organize each day by what you want to achieve for that day. Organize your time each day into blocks and write down what is to get done in each time block. Example:
6:00-7:00am Breakfast and kids to school.
7:00-8:00am Read and answer all emails.
8:00-10:00am Domestic Chores
10:00-12:00am Promotion & Site Maintenance
12:00-1:00pm Lunch Break
1:00- 2:00pm Answer Emails
2:00-4:00pm Work on Ebook and/or Website
4:00-6:00pm Cook & Eat Supper & Do Dishes
6:00-8:00pm Work on ezine & articles.
8:00-10:00pm Break
10:00-11:00pm Answer Emails
You can also put down in more detail what has to be done in each time block.
This is a typical day of mine, however all of our schedules are different. You have to organize your daily goals to best fit your schedule. This can help you get more work done and be less overwhelmed. I used to start my day knowing I had to do this and that and then some more and I wouldn't know where to start and I just felt lost. Writing down and scheduling my daily goals has really helped me get more work done.
You should also write down your weekly and monthly goals in the same manner. Check on these periodically to see if you are doing what needs to be done. One word of advice, use these as a guide and do not beat yourself up if you do not make them exactly as you have written. Some goals may take a little longer to attain than what you think. Organization is the key to getting more work done and feeling more in control of your goals.
For more information on attaining your goals and organizing your time visit these sites:
http://www.win-winresourcecenter.com/lookherfordi1.html
http://www.topachievement.com/
http://www.mindtools.com/pggoalef.html
http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/scheduling.htm
http://www.findyourdream.com/Network_Marketing/settinggoals.htm
http://www.organizing-solutions.net/
With a little time and organization, you can reach all your goals!
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