Create Your Own Goal Setting Guide

Some people set goals to reflect only their business interests; others set only personal goals. Once you get comfortable setting and reaching goals in one area, however, you may want to seriously think about setting and reaching goals in all areas of your life. Following are some ideas for you to create your own goal setting guide:

Personal Goals

There are a variety of goals that can come under the heading of personal goals. You can break this category down much further into areas of your personal life that you would like to improve. For example, you may set relationship goals, self-improvement goals, personal issues that relate to your body, such as weight-loss or fitness goals, or even personal health goals.

Professional Goals

This is one area where most people are comfortable setting goals. Professional goals usually have something to do with improving an area of one’s work life, such as preparing oneself to qualify for a certain job or improving on an area in your current job. Professional goals may also relate to getting the required education to qualify for a better job, or perhaps learning a new skill that doesn’t require formal education.

Perhaps you’re terrified of making public speeches but need to be able to do so to qualify for the position you’d really like to have. Maybe you already have the skills to speak in public but you just can’t bring yourself to do so. Moving past this obstacle could be a personal goal or a professional goal; it doesn’t really matter where you put it in your goal setting guide. The only thing that matters is that you set the goal and begin to work on that area.

Financial Goals

Financial goals could be goals that mean you want to earn more money professionally or they could be goals where you work on spending less money in your personal life. Whatever area of your life is affected, that is where you want to put your financial goals. Whether it is a personal goal or a professional goal isn’t what’s important. What is important is that you identify an area of your life where you are committed to making an improvement and begin by writing down your goal setting strategy.

A Goal for Each Area of Your Life

Balance is the key when it comes to setting and reaching goals. That’s because setting and reaching goals is a tool we use to lead happy and successful lives. For this reason, try not to have every goal in one category only, such as your professional goals or your financial goals. In fact, see how many categories you can think of to set goals in order to help you achieve that balance. Did you know that some people even need to set goals for their leisure life? That’s right! See how many categories you can come up with to set and reach goals. Go ahead, have fun; don’t limit goals to the work part of life; set goals for fun too!