How to achieve your goals?
There is an important difference between wishes and goals. A goal is a well-formulated wish; the more defined we have a goal, the greater the chances of achieving it. A goal is considered achievable when:
- It is formulated in positive terms, that is, what do you want, not what you don't want.
- It is demonstrable of sensory form since our actions go through our senses. How will I feel when I do it?
- To achieve it depend on you.
- To be specific and be clear about what you want.
- Have you evaluated what what will it mean to get it both to your personal life and other systems of which you are part.
10 Tips to achieve your goal
Creativity and planning are the keys to success
Dreaming is the first step to achieve any goal, then you have to transfer the dream to real life, especially if you want to.
One way to do this is by finding three perspectives within oneself that help us move forward and then put them to "dialogue" with each other:
The dreamer
The Director
The critic
Specialist in Clinical Psychology
- Know the evidence It will help you to have indicators to detect when you have reached port, that is, to know that you have achieved the goal or that others are aware of it.
- Choose where, when and with whom you want this goal.
- Analyze the repercussions. Sometimes the proposed goal can affect your whole life, positively or negatively. In that case you should ask yourself if it compensates you, and if the time comes, you will be able to take on the bad part and face it.
- Obstacles that prevent you from currently reaching the goal.
- Existing resources that you have to get to the goal.
- Additional Resources, that is, other necessary resources or skills that you need. The ones you already have will allow you to start reaching your goal and those that you don't, you should start cultivating them.
- Make a plan and crumble your goal. Set deadlines as much as possible to achieve your goals, but remember that it is important that they are realistic; the first step is the most important. Also, if you write them on a calendar it can help you achieve them.
- Alternatives to achieve the objective, that is, if there are different ways to achieve it.
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To plan difficulties will help you to anticipate them, as well as their solutions.
- It is essential to originate new ideas.
- Unleash your imagination, think that anything is possible.
- It is allowed to think of things in other ways ().
- Freely consider all the possibilities.
- Think long term.
- It focuses on the "what."
- He takes care of the implementation. Translate fantasies into realities.
- Consider the feasibility of the goal according to technology, time, funding, environment, etc.
- Act "as if" the dream is possible, focusing on the progressive actions that are necessary to bring it to reality.
- He also thinks ahead, but more in the short term than the dreamer.
- It is effective in defining and carrying out the path to goal achievement.
- It focuses on the "how" to achieve the objective.
- Its function is to evaluate all possible perspectives.
- Protect, contain, encourage.
- Evaluate problems and ensure quality, attending to the different possible scenarios.
- It considers short and long-term aspects, inquiring about possible sources of past and future problems.
- It is effective in evaluating and providing feedback on the risks and benefits of the lens.
- It focuses on the "why" of the objective.
- The more defined we have a goal, the greater the chances of reaching it.
- Dreaming is the first step to achieve any goal, then you have to transfer the dream to real life.
- One way to achieve this is by finding 3 perspectives within yourself that help us move forward and then put them to work with each other: the dreamer, the filmmaker, and the critic.
(Updated at Apr 14 / 2024)