Evaluating your Goals

When you have set your goals in writing its important that you evaluate each of them to ensure they empower you for SUCCESS!

In goal setting its important that you set yourself up for success rather than failure. We all know someone who has tried goal setting once before, not achieved their goal and assumed it doesn't work, right? A far better approach is to ensure we evaluate each of our goals from the outset. By running our goals through a quick checklist we can move forward to their achievement and enjoy the success we deserve.

Here are 11 quick keys to evaluate your goals:

1) Your Goals - It is vital that you set goals for you and your reasons. Never set a goal to please someone else. Goals must be your own. If you have set a goal through a sense of duty or obligation then you will struggle to live with passion and enjoy true success.

2) Who are you becoming - Ask yourself ... who will I become in the pursuit of my goals. Excellent goals stretch you and compell you to become more of a person than you were when you started.

3) Positive Impact - Do your goals have a positive impact on the people around you. Do they contribute something of value and move others to become more, and enjoy more of lifes gifts? Goals that have a negative impact will only bring you and others down.

4) Aligned to your Values - Are your goals aligned with your core values? If your goals are not harmonious with your inner values then your life will be filled with tension and frustration.

5) Like minded Associates - Do your goals involve surrounding yourself with people who are like minded? The people you associate with in life have a huge impact on what you achieve and the goals you reach for. Set goals that demand you mix with people who are going somewhere in life.

6) Believe In - Anything you can conceive and believe you can achieve. But here is the key question ... do you really believe that you can achieve the goals you have set? If not then your goals are setting yourself up for failure. If you don't really believe you can achieve your goal of becoming a millionaire by the end of the year then chances are good you will not! Make sure you have absolute belief you can achieve your goals.

7) Stretch your Comfort Zone - Great goals cause you to stretch the outer boundaries of your comfort zone. There is no point setting a goal to make the same number of sales you did last year if that is easily within your reach. Set goals that cause you to stretch and grow as a person.

8) Specific - This is a powerful key to goal setting. Are your goals specifically defined? If they are vague or fuzzy you will achieve similar results. Get specific about the exact goals you wish to achieve. Life rewards those who are specific about what they want.

9) Images - One key component to manifesting your goals is the ability to develop mental images of the goal. To help you do this, get as many pictures of your goal as you can and place them all around your house. Every time you look at them you will program them into your subconscious mind and draw them closer to you. Can you find great images of your goals?

10) In Writing - This is perhaps the critical point in goal setting. Those who commit their goals to writing move from the wish list to unstoppable human beings who are living their life by design. If your life is worth living then it is worth living by design! Get your goals in writing!

11) Empowering WHY - If you do not have empowering reasons WHY you want to achieve your goal then chances are good you will falter at the first obstacle. Get focused on WHY you must achieve a goal as it is the driving force behind all goal achievement.

If you run all of your goals through this evaluation process then your chances of achieving your goals will rise! Give this a try with all of your current goals and see how they stack up against the evaluation list. You may find that you can fine tune your goals and enjoy more success!

Remember ... if your life is worth living its worth living by design!

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Rod Moore is the author of the e-book '47 Keys to Unleashing the Magic in Goals', and creator of the Goals Magic System, a free personal goal setting system used by more than 5,000 people globally. Get your free copy of the Goals Magic System today at http://www.GoalsMagic.com