THE SIMPLE TRUTH ABOUT GOAL SETTING

How to set goals you can achieve.

If you’ve ever gone down the rabbit hole of finding success you definitely have come across men like Jim Rohn, Brian Tracy and James Clear. What do they all teach in common? Goal setting!

It was in the middle of March 2024, I had gotten sick and was unable to actively engage with client’s request. I hated medicines and hospitals so I went traditional. I started making ginger tea.

After (3) Three days… I was fine, but I wanted to boost my immune system with that while equally trying to develop the art of consistency (I had just finished listening to the Audiobook of Darren Hardy’s Compound Effect, this was a great challenge to put learnings into practice and it worked).

In 3 weeks it had become second nature. I shared pictures daily on my instagram and whatsapp stories…which was my best form of accountability at the time.

This little act of consistency influenced other areas of my life and I can confidently say that it compounded to something positive.

So in this short article I will teach you how to set goals and achieve them.

WHY ARE GOALS IMPORTANT?

If you had asked me this question a couple years ago I’d have told you something in the line of “uhhmmm, I don’t know. Maybe to accomplish your purpose.”

Goals are a necessary part of human existence. If you are not choosing goals to actively drive success you are choosing to actively fail. Either way, you are always choosing. Goals and goal-setting aren’t the priority here. It is the person you become as you pursue your goals that matter. When you choose to learn a new skill it is not the skill you learn that drives you, it’s the person you become after learning. This is the reason we set goals, the daily act of pursuing something worthwhile and developing one’s self is why we set goals.

Humans are the only species on earth gifted with the ability to improve beyond imagination. Don’t be the one who was given a talent and decided to bury it.

HOW TO SET GOALS YOU CAN ACHIEVE

1. Start Small Start Simple: While this may sound cheeky, it always works. When starting out at anything new, you would be doing yourself a great favor by starting small. You can’t run a 20 mile marathon for the first time if you haven’t already conquered 20 reps of 1 mile marathons (I hope that makes sense to you).

2. Think Atomically: If you have to read a 210-paged book for one month and you’ve got only an hour a day for it. This is how I would tackle that problem. First, divide the page by the month. On average we have 30 days a month. If I divide 210 by 30 we have 7 pages a day. If each page is printed with a standard A4 page with 12 point font, 1.5 line spacing, and default margins of 1 inch then we are looking at approximately 400–500 words on a page. It takes between 2–10mins to finish a page (considering slow readers like myself who gets lost in imagination very quickly). The average read time then, would be 5–6 minutes per page. Times that by 7 pages and we will spend, say, 42 minutes a day reading. With this thinking, you’ll realize that any goal can be achieved if you break it down to its atomic level.

3. Track, Track, Track: Have you ever wondered why businesses do accounting? It’s not just some fancy department designed to look at numbers. Every business that is ready to grow must keep track of their financial activities. If you too as an individual wishes to grow, you must keep track of your activities. I will publish an article about tracking and how that has worked for me lately. When you begin to track your activities you can easily pin-point a particular moment in time in your life where things begin to take shape, when your goals begin to materialize.

With these three easy but practical steps you can see how easy it is to set goals and how exciting it is to achieve them.

ARE YOU READY?

Then grab a fucking pen. Write that goal, break it down and start working on it. Track your progress till it’s achieved.