The Simple and Incredible Power of Goal Setting - Results

Humor me while I share with you a brief story about the power of goal setting.

In March of 2007, I achieved one goal of becoming a columnist for a local newspaper in Northwest Indiana, the Post Tribune. This goal was 3 years in the making, but that is another story. Within 30 days, I had people asking me about when the column would go online.

So I committed another goal to writing and set the time frame to be 60 days or by the end of June, 2007. Since this was a delegated goal, my responsibility was to consistently check on its progress with my editor. He had to speak to someone else who had to speak to someone else - Corporate America at its best so to speak.

Finally, after 9 months, the column finally made it online with the other newspaper columnists. However, the page was blank. I connected with the editor who went back to the powers to be and within 2 days, the first column appeared in early December of 2007.

Even though the goal was not achieved in 60 days, but closer to 210 days, the goal was realized, the sweet smell of success. The result was that I now had a regular online column on a web site with a Google page rank of 6 and I was now seeing links from that site to my website.

These predetermined and written goals within my strategic business growth action plan, being a columnist and having the column on line, are just 2 of the short term goals within my long term goal of being a syndicated business columnist. Once the column is on line for 60 days, I can check and see how well it is doing and use that as additional leverage as I move forward and closer to the long term goal.

The reason I shared this personal experience is because many people set those BHAG - Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals (usually long term ones) and fail to include the short term goals. Since goal setting is not a learned skill for many individuals, it makes sense why people fail to master success.

If you for some reason are not seeing the power of this tremendous process, then maybe you need a better goal setting worksheet or even some business coaching or training. However, once you embrace a consistent goal setting process along with some proven tools, you will unleash incredible power and start seeing those results. And that is the power, the results.

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