Are your goals realistic and attainable? So, you're a business owner. Perhaps you started a finance agency, a catering business, your own law firm or you opened up your own school.
Let me ask you? When you go to work every day, do you know where you're really headed? How do you know when you've gotten there?
Let's say that you were just hired to work in a factory and it was your first day. Your trainer takes you over to where you see knobs, screws, and handles laying all over a table. You stand there waiting to be told what you are supposed to do, what you are supposed to accomplish. Your trainer says to you, "Here's your area, you can start work." You ask, "What am I supposed to do?" Your trainer responds, "Everything you need is right in front of you." So you reply, "Huh, well, what am I supposed to be accomplishing?" Your trainer simply replies, "What's the problem? Just start working." He walks away leaving you in confusion and frustration.
This is what it is like to work without a goal in mind. Without a goal, we work aimlessly. We are just doing "stuff", busy work. Your goal is your intention or aim for doing what you do. Let's say you have a day off from work. Your intention for that day is to rest and lounge. Your aim is to not do anything that requires strenuous work.
You decide you will play video games, watch movies while eating popcorn, call a few friends, and lay all over your couch. You have a goal in mind, a target, and it's attainable. Here's another example. Let's say you plan fantastic events for your neighbors. You decide that you want to make one million dollars in planning events within one year. Yet, for the next eight months, you do nothing to make this happen. What do you think your chances are of making that million in the next four months? A goal must be backed by realism and execution.
Set your goals and make sure they are realistic and attainable.
"In the long run, men only hit what they aim at." -Henry David Thoreau
By Denise Joyner, Owner of Exclusif Entertainment/EEWB-TV Broadcasting Network, Executive Producer, Publisher, Videographer, Author
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